Punjab Government Records Vol.vi

· 1915 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1DTiEIES OF LirurrKAXT B G TATLOB, 18£7

3Kppovs returning' from leiro Inve taken an a}’’ most of them, and tlicie

4aio noiv betn eon d and 5 hundred reniaimng This account was con-

5finnol hv the statement of the Goiinflifah m m}’’ presence There are

6also 7 liippai of powder collected h}-^ GoMiidh Sahaie, Kardar, for the

7Sutlej campaign and neicr used

821 The lofrec was locked, and the kej’- in charge of a sepoy who

9Incd at some distance fiom the city, and I did not think it worth while

10to send for him to haa c it opened

1125 jl/hi/ JS17 — hfa ariiaal has procured two months’ pay foi:

12the detachment of Sikh soldieis employed in the town and district, for

13the first two oi three daj-s the\ came legnlarlj’- ca cry day with com-

14plaints against the Goma'thiah, and saj mg that tliej’’ were thiee months

15in arrcais I took no notice of their petition, intending to-morrow to

16speak about it before lca\ mg, but in the meantime the Gomaihfah paid

17them tno months of their an ears

1820 This d n I received j our tetter of the 20th diiccting me not to

19in\ ite complaints This n as the lailc I had proposed to myself at first,

20but I ioall> found it nocessai} to o\pliin to the people that any

21complaints they might make I should caiefiilly investigate, as I did

22not believe that then silence proceeded from a waant of cause of

23complaint, though I was inclined to think that tliej- have suffered no

24immediate acts of oppresaion, and v erj’^ likely doubted the probability of

25gaining rcdiess foi evils of long standing duimg my fljing visit

2627 2S II (I 37(1 !/ — The V illagciB of Jluideke before mentioned not

27having CO lie in to make their complaint, I again lode out to the vallage

28and asked them the reason, foi I was cm ions to know what had prevented

29them They said that they had hcaid that I was going on to Cashmere

30immediately and feared to incur the eumitj’ of the Kardar by seeking

31redress from me at his expense They, how evei, said they would come

32that daj, though I told them I did not want them to do so

3328 Accoidingly m the couree of the day they amved, and told

34then stoiy before the Kardar, w'hich, as it gives a fan sample of the mode

35of collecting the levonue in the whole distiict, and I have ascertained its

36perfect coriectness, I shall hcie give as succinctly as possible

3729 By the Ayeen of Av itabile’s time the v illage of Murdoke* was

38assessed at Bs 2,100 altogethei, of which Rs 600 was m jageer and