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by a Proclamation bearing date the second day of August, 1800, the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor-in-Council, proclaimed to the Zemindars of Venkatagiri, Kalahasti and Bommarajupolliem, his determination to subject those Zemindaris respectively to the established regulations and laws of the British Government; and whereas for the better execution of that intention, it was further proclaimed that the Right Honourable Edward Lord Clive, Governor-in-Council aforesaid, had instituted an enquiry through the channel of the Collector into the actual state of the revenue of each taluk, purgannah and village, of the exact state of population, manufactures and trade, of the soil, climate and natural products of each Zemindari, of the former and present modes of administering justice, police and law, as well as of the Civil, Military