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 THE LAST FOUR OF JAHANGIK'S ORDINANCES 299 out my dominions this was one of the days on which it was forbidden to kill animals, 10. General confirmation of commands and fiefs. I issued a general order that the commands and fiefs of my father's servants should be confirmed, and after- wards I increased the old commands according to the merit of each individual. He who held ten was not advanced to less than twelve, and the augmentation was sometimes as much as from ten to thirty or forty. The allowance of all the guardsmen was advanced from ten to fifteen, and the monthly pay of all the domestics was from ten to twelve, or ten to twenty. The attendants upon the female apartments of my father were ad- vanced according to their position and kinsfolk from ten to twelve, or ten to twenty. 11. Confirmation of grants. All those lands throughout my dominions which were devoted to the purposes of prayer and praise, I confirmed according to the terms of the grant in the hands of each grantee. Miran, who is of the purest race of Sayyids in Hindu- stan and who held the office of justice in the days of my father, was directed to look after the poor every day. 12. Amnesty for all -^prisoners in forts and in pris- ons of every kind. All prisoners who had long been confined in forts or shut up in prisons I ordered to be set free.' In the second year of his reign Jahangir undertook a journey from Lahore to Kabul, the record of which is especially interesting. The narrative not only shows