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 documents have accordingly been furnished to me. I observe that none of the instruments produced by you specify the number of troops to be maintained, or the quantity of warlike stores to be furnished by you as a Munsubdar of the Empire; but I find by the authentic papers transmitted by your authority to the Collector the number of armed men now actually supported by you amounts to (9,788) nine thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight ; and that the annual expense incurred by you in money and in lands, on that account, amounts to star pagodas (1,27,323) one lakh twenty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-three.

4. It is a distinguishing feature of the arrangements I am about to introduce for the military protection of these territories that all the troops maintained for that purpose shall be in the immediate pay and service of the British Government ; experience has shown