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Rh can engage dismissed servants without first enquiring of their former master as to the nature of the offence for which their services were dispensed with. This bad system also prevails among the neighbouring Zemindars.

(Then the Maharajah referred to some events known to all classes of people, to show how the loyalty of the inhabitants of the town in general was decreasing).

CONCLUSION. "In an estate there must be several people to conduct various branches of work. But among them only a very few are good people. However, the master must make the best possible use of them. When they turn out profitable work, they must be rewarded; and likewise, when they commit faults they must be punished. And so I have rewarded you and punished you. But when I gave you rewards, I gave them with pleasure; and when I punished you, I did it with regret. Many of