Government Records Punjab--Political Diaries of Agent to the Governor-General North-West Frontier and Resident at Lahore 1847-48

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110 LAHORE POLITICAL DIARIES, 1847.

24. Commanding Officers at Peshawur forbidden to grant furlough

3to their men without sanction of the Nazim.

45. The Residency party attended Durbar: a &hiilut conferred on

5Major G. Lawrence on his departure to Peshawur.

623rd January.

71. The Maharajah has become very fond of equestrian exercise,

8a taste in which Rajah Lall Singh is said not to have indulged him.

9The courtiers this day very eloquent in praise of His Highness’ horse

10manship and the improvement made since the Rajah’s departure.

112. Bukhshee Bhuggut Ram, complaining of the constant claims

12brought against him by the soldiers, was informed by the Durbar that the

13best way to prevent such annoyances was to pay the army fairly.

1424th January,

151, Colonel Cheyt Singh has returned from Mooltan.

162. Some complaint being made against Ram Diyal, Kardar of the

17tlakah of Nurot, an amusing contention took place among the Sirdars in

18the Durbar as to who should recommend a new Kardar to supersede

19him, Sardar Shumshere Singh and Fakeer Chiragh-oo-deen each offering

20to go security for the payment of a lakh per annum by their own

21candidate ; in other words to farm it themselves at that rent.

223. General Cortlandt and his two Regiments are selected to form

23part of the force which is to go to Bunnoo Tank. There will probably

24be four other Infantry corps; 12 guns; and about 2,000 Cavalry. I have

25recommended that the Force should not be of less strength.

264. The house which formerly belonged to General Avitabile is

27conferred by the Maharajah on General Cortlandt’s family.

285. The zemindars of Sobha Singh’s Killa having brought to the

29British Residency the bodies of two of their number who had been killed

30in an affray brought on in collecting the revenue, Goor Buksh Rai, the

31Kardar, is called on by the Durbar to explain the occurrence; anda

32royal Bhyah is despatched to investigate the matter. A summary in-

33vestigation at the Residency proved the zemindars on their own shewing

34to have been in the wrong.