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 of a reasonable number of attendants on your person, and I accordingly consent to your retaining to the extent of 100 peons for that purpose.

11. I am aware that many adherents and connections of your family have claims on your bounty which may be incompatible with the entire discontinuance of their stipends, and it is for this reason that I have not included in the calculation of your equivalent the whole amount of the revenue granted for the support of the Ameram and Cuttabuddy peons. But it is no longer necessary that those lands should be held on military tenure, and I desire that the peons may be accordingly released from that condition.

12. In order that no immediate loss may arise from, this arrangement to the peons in your service, who have furnished arms at their own expense, I have instructed the Collector to receive the arms of those peons, and to pay them individually an adequate price for their value.