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2 Government on this occasion sanctioned their pensions being increased to
3 the following amounts :—
4 eat Chuttur Singh... Rs, 8,000 per annum or £800.
5 The Sikh Sirdars, :
6 Shere Singh..,... , 6,000 ,, » 600,
7 Hakim Rae ...... rome U1) ae » 120
8 Lall Singh......... » 840, » 84
9 Mahtab Singh... 4, 840 ,, » 84
10 Oomed Singh of As
11 JUSWUN os vee » 4,800 ,, _» 480
12 Jugut Chund, of
13 Datenpore ... ,, 2400 , ~ » 240
14 140, ‘In March-of the same year, the Goorchanees and Kusrances,
15 " Goorchanees and Kus. two powerful and predatory Tribes on the borders
16 ranee Tribes, of Derah Ismael Khan, who formerly, on account -
17 of misconduct, had been prohibited from entering the Plains, made -
18 submission, and were relieved from these restrictions.
19 - 141. About the same time the Affreedees of the Kohat Pass
20 ‘again violated their engagements, and again were
21 “prevented from entering the Peshawur valley.
22 This embargo lasted until the following September.
23 142. During this period, 7 ¢ February 1855, the Bussee Khail —
24 Affreedees made a desperate attack on the Camp
25 of an Officer employed on the road between
26 Peshawur and the mouth of this Pass. The lands of the Bussee Khail
27 for some distance flank the entrance to the Pass on the Peshawur side,
28 and the tribe itself had been debarred from the valley on account of the
29 murder of a traveller. In this attack forty-six persons were killed and
30 wounded and much property carried off. Two of the assailants also
31 were slain; two retaliatory expeditions were made by our Troops against
32 the Bussee Khail tribe ; and more than half the value of the plundered -
33 property was made good for reprisals. Heretofore this tribe had
34 traded during winter with the British cities of the Plains, and during
35 summer had enjoyed in the cool mountain retreats the profits of that
36 trade. But now the strictest embargo was placed on them, enforced
37 Punishment and sub. by rewards given for the seizure of every individual_
38 mission of the tribe. who entered the valley, and fines were inflicted on
39 Kohat Pass ATfreedees
40 Bussee Khail outrage.