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 use of arms being no longer requisite under the change of the condition of their tenure and the discontinuance of that usage being indispensably necessary to the preservation of regular Government and the increase of prosperity, the Right Honourable the Governor-in-Council expects, that the Zemindars of Venkatagiri, Kalahasti and Bommarajupolliem will relinquish a custom now become useless and yield a cheerful obedience to these orders in the assurance of enjoying with their families, tenants and ryots, under a system of defined and public law, every civil right, together with the domestic usages and religious institutions of their ancestors.

2th August, 1802. Published by order of the Right Honourable the Governor-in-Council.