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 Provided that nothing in this Article shall authorise the Rajpramukh to assume to himself any of the powers vested in or exercisable by a High Court, or to suspend, either in whole or in part, the operation of any law relating to a High Court.

Until a Constitution framed or adopted by the Legislative comes into operation, the Rajpramukh and the Council of Ministers shall in the exercise of their functions, comply with such directions, if any, as may from time to time be given by the Government by the Government of India.

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

Provided that the sums specified in the Schedule in respect of the Ruler of Travancore shall be payable only to the present Ruler and not to his successors for whom provisions will be made subsequently by the Government of India.

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

(3) The United State shall pay the said amount 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 immediately before the appointed day.

(2) He shall furnish to the Government of India and in the Ministry of States before the 1st day of September 1949 an inventory of all immovable property, securities and cash balances held by him as such private property.

(3) If any dispute arises as to whether any item of property is the private property of the Ruler or State property, it shall be referred to such person as the Government of India may nominate in consultation with the Ruler of Travancore or Cochin as the case may be, and the decision of that person shall be final and binding on all parties concerned.