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 12th July, 1792, that your dependence on His Highness should cease and that you should be subjected exclusively to the British Government from that time, accordingly you have continued to pay the customary Peishcush free from Nuzzers and have enjoyed your Zemindari free from demands for Nuzzers and all other public charges than that attending the military establishment attached to the conditions of your tenure.

2. The British Government having now resolved that all the troops to be maintained for the protection of the territories subject to the Government shall be in the immediate pay and service of the British Government, has relieved you from the condition of military service, from the obligation of furnishing troops and military stores for the service of the Government and maintaining forts and garrisons in all time to come. It has commuted the said military service for an equivalent to be paid in money by you and your posterity.