Punjab Government Records Vol.vi

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2'DIARIES OF MR A ll COCKS, 1847

3give Ills oivn eiders to the Duibai, he being the best 3 udge whether

4such expenditure is nccessaiy to secure for me propei attention from the

5uiithoiities

6A. H. COCKS,

7Chief Assistant to the Resident

8Sums beoeivjjd and credited to Government.

9Rs

107th October — From Knrdar of Hafiiabad . , 3

119th October — From Baba Mabu Singh as a seeafut by order of

12Duibar sweetmeats given to servants , 250

13Zccafut fiom Kardar of Hafizabad . 2i0

14IrliBcellaneoas nuzzuis fiom Dufturees, lAohumrs,

15&c , . 10

16Pnco of sweetmeats , ,13

17Up to tluB date, Total Nannk Shnbeo rupees Es 626

18lOlh October — Deduct paid to bearers of seeafuts 10

19„ „ „ Elephant di-ivors of Durbar

20elephants 6

2116

22Total amount to bo credited to Government 611

23A. H. COCKS,

24Chief Assistant to the Resident

25No. 3 — Diary of Mr. A. H. Cocks, Chief Assistant to the Resident

26at Lahore, from the 11th to the 17th of October 1847.

271 11th October 1847 — Commenced work in earnest with Baba

28]\Iahu Singh and the Durbar Biifturees and Deen Mohnmmnd and

29Kurrum Singh Discovered that an attempt was being made to supply

30me with inssnd without payment Put a stop to the same and gave

31explicit orders that “ we " never took anything from the people, and that

32it was not only wrong, but m diiect variance with the orders issued by

33the Durbai to the Kardars, Baba Mahu Singh insisted upon my

34receiving a seenfut from Misr Rulla Bam of Rs 125, which, to escape

35importunity, I did and have earned the same to the credit of Govern-

36ment Took a long ride in the evening and visited the villages of Peer

37Kumal belonging to Syuds in the Hafizabad district, and Wulec

38holonging to Lodhis, a tribe of Juts (not Lodhas as I first imagined). ^