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 13. Having thus entirely relieved you from the burthen of your military establishments, I have great pleasure in pointing out to your notice, that the prospects of tranquillity connected with that measure invite you to reclaim your military peons from the pursuits of an unprofitable profession to the improvement of agriculture, and that your own releasement from the expense and anxiety of your military service, offers to your immediate possession, the enjoyment of peaceful life ; I therefore exhort you by cultivating the improvements of agriculture and by facilitating the progress of commerce within your Zemindari.

What more?

(Signed) CLIVE.

24th August, 1802.