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(1) The Ruler of each Covenanting State shall be entitled to receive annually from the revenues of the United State for his privy purse the amounts specified against Covenanting State in Schedule I.

Provided that the sum specified in the Schedule in respect of the Rulers of Jaipur, Bikaner and Jodhpur States shall be payable only to the present Rulers of the said States and not to their successors each of whom shall be entitled to receive annually a sum of Rs. ten lakhs as his privy purse.

(2) The said amount is intended to cover all the expenses of the Ruler and his family including expenses on residences, marriages and other ceremonies, and shall neither be increased nor reduced for any reason whatsoever.

(3) The Raj Pramukh shall cause the said amount to be paid to the Ruler in four equal instalments at the beginning of each quarter in advance.

(4) The said amount shall be free of all taxes, whether imposed by the Government of the United State or by the Government of India.

(1) The Ruler of each Covenanting State shall be entitled to the full ownership, use and enjoyment of all private properties (as distinct from State properties), belonging to him on the date of his making over the administration of that State to the Raj Pramukh of the former Rajasthan State or as the case may be, to the Raj Pramukh of the United State under this Covenant.

(2) If any dispute arises as to whether any item of property is the private property of the Ruler of a Covenanting State other than a new Covenanting State or is State property, it shall be referred to such person as the Government of India may nominate in consultation with the Raj Pramukh, and the decision of that person shall be final and binding on all parties concerned:

Provided that no such dispute shall be so referable after the first day of May 1949.

(3) The private properties of the Ruler of each new Covenanting States [sic] shall be as agreed to between the Government of India in the States Ministry and the Ruler concerned, and the settlement of properties thus made shall be final.