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ground for her claim to the succession. No such right is stated in the Sunnud of 1849, nor has it ever been recog- nised by Government,

8. For the reasons above adduced, the Governor-in- Council is of opinion that Imdad Hussainee Begum has failed to establish any claim to succeed to the Jaghi:*-.

9. The second claimant to the Jaghir, Nazimood- daulah who married Shahar Bano Begum, the eldest nicka-daughter of the late Jaghirdar Ghulam Ali Khan, is not by blood related to the late Jaghirdar. His claim rests solely on a document executed jointly by the late Jaghirdar and his wife Imdad Hussainee Begum at the time of the claimant's marriage with the late Jaghirdar's nicka-daughter in 1863, by which the Jaghirdar engaged to make Nazimood-daulah his heir in the Jaghir, in case he should die without male issue, and solemnly declared that he would make no other settlement of the Jaghir to the prejudice of this engagement.

10. The Government are unable to recognise this document as being of any effect in supporting Nizamood-daulah's claim. Such a deed is, in their opinion, null and void. • 1st. Because it never received the assent of Government. 3nd. Because it contemplated a departure from the sense of the Sunnud of 1849, by which the Jaghir was secured to the heirs of Ghulam Ali Khan. Under these circumstances the claims of Nazimood- daulah is inadmissible. » 3