1 402 LAHORE POLITICAL DIARIES, 1847.
2 Vakeel of the Sooketwallah Rajah ; he also, on being asked whether he
3 has written it with his own good will, answers in the affirmative, but
4 requests to be allowed to pay it up in four instalments. I therefore
5 desire him to wait on me to-morrow. Rajah Deena Nath informs me
6 that Sirdar Lehna Singh Majeethia’s accounts exhibit a balance against
7 him of 20,000 rupees Nanuk Shahee and 8,000 rupees Cashmeeree.
8 There is likewise a balance of 1,700 rupees outstanding against the
9 Rajah of Kuhloor. I affix my signature to a number of perwanaks on
10 various subjects.
11 The Rajah then advises me that he has issued ferwanahs to the
12 ferry farmers, ordering them to pay up their arrears, and that they have
13 replied by again begging their remission. I desire that Dewan Moolraj’s
14 salt merchants be proceeded against in the manner notified in my ro0da-
15 karee, viz., by putting up their salt to public auction, in case of their
16 not making arrangements for a speedy payment. A portion only of
17 the revenue due on account of the last khkurreef crop by some villages
18 in the neighboorhood of Lahore, held in farm by Hunsraj, brother to
19 Dewan Moolraj of Pind Dadun Khan, and now in the Fort of Govind-
20 gurh, having been collected, and a portion being still due, Rajah Deena
21 Nath advises the appointment of another Kardar, to which I object,
22 desiring him to come to me to-morrow to talk on the subject.
23 29th December.
24 1. “Rajah Deena Nath, Raie Kishun Chund and Umreek Raie,
25 examine the abstract statement of Bukshee Bhuggut Ram’s accounts.
26 Umreek Raie, on being told to authenticate the accounts if he knew them
27 to be correct, says that they are full of mistakes, and that a balance of
28 4 lakhs of rupees will remain unaccounted for. Bukshee Bhuggut Ram,
29 who is present, declares that for any sums which may be brought
30 against him, besides what is entered in his accounts, he has Govern-
31 ment sunnuds, which he promises to produce.’’
32 2. ‘‘A perwanah is addressed to the Kardar of Mittah Towanah
33 reprimanding him for having recalled his Vakeel from General Cort-
34 landt’s camp, and ordering him to attend to Lieutenant Edwardes’ requi-
35 sition to present himself, whenever such may be made.”
36 3. “Rajah Deena Nath addresses himself to the Durbar, to the
37 effect that the merchants who have given bonds for the payment of