1 110 CONFISCATIONS. A. D. 1816.
2 He was content therefore to employ the season in con-
3 firming his authority in the hills before subdued, and in
4 punishing the disobedient and refractory Rajas and Chiefs
5 on this side the Peer-Punjal range. He returned to
6 Labor on the 28th December, where he was waited upon
7 by Beer Singh, the Rajah of Noorpoor, in the hills, who
8 had failed to attend the summons to rendezvous at Seeal-
9 Kot. A heavy mulct was imposed, which being beyond
10 the Chiefs means, he offered his Thakoors, or house-
11 bold Gods, of silver and gold, in pawn, but these not
12 sufficing, he was arrested at the door of the Durbar, or
13 hall of audience, on the 20th January 1816, and next
14 day was sent off in a Palkee to witness the seizure
15 and confiscation of his all, and to render an account to
16 the sequestrators. He declined the petty Jageer offered
17 to him for subsistence, and after a fruitless attempt to
18 recover his fortress and territory by force, took refuge
19 within the British territory. A second example was made
20 of the Raja of Juswoul Omed Singh, for a similar
21 failure. . Being stripped of his possessions, however, he
22 accepted the Jageer tendered.
23 After completing his arrangements in the hills,
24 RujvjEET Singh having bathed at Turun-Tarun, moved
25 with his army into the territories of Mooltan and
26 Buhawulpoor, where the still unripe <;rops and abundant
27 herds presented the means of enforcing contributions or
28 inflicting irredeemable injury. The Sikh detachments
29 penetrated down the Indus, to the verge of the Siudh
30 territory, and Mohummud Khan, Chief of Bhukur
31 and Leeah, of the family ejected by the present Meers of
32 Sindh, having recently died, a demand of tribute was
33 made on his successor Hafiz Ahmeu Khan. On his