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 petty Inamdars, and (4) the Pasture-lands dispute which gave the right of all pasture lands in the Estate to the Zemindar.

Religions. — The standing religious endowment of his time is the grant of Kalavalapudi Firka to Temple Fund. Before this, the many villages that were granted to temples were all lying scattered in different parts of the Estate, and therefore involved unnecessary expenditure and attention in the matter of collecting the annual revenue. So he annexed all such villages to the Estate and granted in return to the Temple Fund the whole of the Taluk Kalavalapudi with its equal annual rental. At the same time he systematised the expenditure and thus arranged for the undisturbed working of the daily worship and periodical festivals. This system continues to the present day, and is very helpful.

Close upon his Installation, he built a choultry in 1880 at the village of Nannur Gollapalli in Venkatagiri taluk, and granted