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 10 The Aristocracy of Southern India.

should revert to the ruling Nawab with the moveable and immoveable property of the deceased ; and in cases of disloyalty among Sub-jaghirdars their property, both moveable and immoveable, should be confiscated, and the offenders deported beyond the limits of the State.

The family, however, was burdened with debt origi- nally incurred chiefly by Saiyid Asad Ali Khan, brother of Muusurud-daalah, while he was Subadar of Cuddappah, and in consequence of embarrassments resulting from the Nawab Hussain Ali Khan's inability to satisfy his creditors, the Madras Government at the request of the Nawab himself undertook the management of the State from 1825, and after clearing the debt restored the Jaghir in 1848. Before the issue of the Sunnud of restoration Hussain Ali Khan died, leaving behind, as his adopted heir, his nephew Saiyid Gulam Ali Khan, who was also his son-in-law, having married his daughter Imdad Hussainee Begum. Both by matrimonial relation- ship and by right of descent, Saiyid Ghulam Ali Khan was recognised Jaghirdar by Government, and a Sunnud was issued to him in 1849, renewing the grant conferring civil and criminal jurisdiction unlimited, except in regard to capital punishments which alone require the special sanction of the Madras Government.

The following is the Sunnud:—

"Whereas the Eight Honourable the Governor in Council of Fort Saint George was pleased, on the 12th July 1848, to confer upon Hoossain Ali Klian and his heirs for ever, in Jaghir, the lands of BanganapaUi, free of peshcush and pecuniary demand ; and w^hereas the said Hoossain Ali Khan has demised before the issue of a