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Page 28 that the Sunnadhs authorizing possession of the Muktas etc., that Tirumal Rao held, had been granted to him under the authority and seal of the late Sir Salar Jung II; and that a long Roobkar issued by the Political and Financial Secretary's office during the time of the Second Salar Jung on which the whole case hinged was not so much as referred to in the precis al- though it had been addressed to the Revenue Secretary and formed the most important paper of the file of the case in the Revenue Secretariat. Tirumal Rao, though a very insignificant man, somehow managed to get a hearing from His Highness the Nizam. And at the instance of His Highness, than whom it would be difficult to find a ruler more clear headed and in- terested in the welfare of his subjects, the case was gone into by two of the most prominent officers of His Highness' staff. The Assistant in the Revenue Secretariat who had drawn up the precis, was Summoned before them, the proceedings which had resulted in the confiscation of the Muktas etc, were quash- ed, and the Muktas and Rasoons wero restored to Tirumal Rao. It is rumoured in the city that orders were about to be passed for the suspension of the Assistant in the Revenue Secretariat when the all-powerful Mushtak Hussain interceded and saved his protege. Now, I ask, should not the Government have enquired as to the reason for ignoring in the precis the existance of the Roobkar from the Political and Financial Secretary's Office! And should not Mnshtak Hussain whose signature the precis bears be held responsible for it?

Sir Asmanjah has recently issued to the City Kotwal an order to the effect that he should not arrest any of his own or the Nawab Vicar-ul-Umra's retainers under any circumstances- thus making an invidious distinction of his aud Vicar-ul-Umra's retainers and those of Sir Kurshedjah and other noblemen. The inadvisability, if not the unreasonableness, of the order is apparent, and I refrain from making any comments upon it.

I have been placed in possession of some facts giving an insight into the means employed to bring about the non-accep-