Chiefs and families of note in the Punjab

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2CHIEFS AND FAMILIES OF NOTE.

4He was succeeded by his son Sardar Richpal Singh, who commenced

5service as Naib-talisildar in 1870, and was appointed Munsif in 1875.

6This post he resigned a few years later and till his death in 1908 resided

7entirely at Bhagowala.

8H e was connected by marriage with Sardar

9Badan Singh of Bhadana, and was a Provincial Darbari.

10Gopal Singh is now the head of the family.

11H is eldest son

12H e is chief lambardar of

13Bhagowala, but is serving as a Ressaidar in the X lt h K . B. 0

14Lancers.

15Sardar Gopal Singh has adopted Gurbakhsh Singh, his first cousin’s son.

16Pirtlipal Singh, second son of Richpal Singh, has been promised a direct

17commission.

18Bishan Singh, Richpal Singh’ s younger brother, was at one time a

19Naib-tahsildar, but resigned on account of ill-health.

20H e died in 1904.

21H is property amounting to about 300 acres of land has been inherited by

22his sons, of whom the younger, Shamsher Singh, is an accepted candidate

23for employment in the police.

24Sardar Richpal Singh received a grant of ten squares of land in the

25Lyallpur district in recognition of his services, and purchased the village

26of Kheri Manian in the Patiala State.

27The family owns about 850 acres

28of land in five villages in Gurdaspur and also a small tea garden at

29Gajian, in K a n g r a ; they also enjoy a

30Bhagowal, Gurdaspur.

31joint muafi of 200 acres in

32The muafis and jagirs yield about Rs. 3,076 per

33annum, and Richpal Singh also drew a pension of Rs. 622 per annum.

34On account of his age and infirmities his estates were placed under the

35management of the Court of W ard s, but they

36before this account appears in print.

37will probably be released