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Rh peremptorily stopped, much misery being thereby relieved and good-will engendered, while increased employment was given to the officials and soldiery of the Darbár; and instructions were issued recognizing the fair claims of the old Oudh officials to employment in preference to immigrants from other Provinces.

Finally, as to the Tálukdárs, he met them both in Darbár and private interviews, and arranged forthwith for strict adherence to the terms of the proclamation regarding their tenure of their estates; so that, as Mr. Gubbins says, 'all returned satisfied and hopeful, all congratulated themselves on having found a ruler so well disposed to listen to their grievances and remedy them': the practical result of which was that the revenues flowed freely and fully into the district treasuries. Such was the immediate effect produced by the removal of the virulent ill-feeling which Sir Henry had found prevailing in Oudh on his arrival a month before.