The Punjab Chiefs' Association

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114 The Puniab Chiefs Association.

2A Committee of six members of the Association was formed and

3sat on 25th July 1908, and considered every case that Mas referred to

4them. It consisted of the following gentlemen : —

5The Hon'ble Lieutenant Malik Umar Ilavat Khan Tiwana. c.i.e.

7Khan Znlfiqar Ali Khan of Malerkotla, Khan Bahadur Faqir Sved

8Qamr-ud-Din, Sardar Bikram Singh, Khan Bahadur Makhduui

9Hassan Bakhsh Qureshi, and Partap Singh of Kupurthala.

10The Committee prepared a report after their deliberations and

11submitted it to the Government. The following reply was received : —

12From the Hon'ble Mr. E. D. Maclagau, CM., Chief Secretary to the Government of the

13Punjab, to the Hon'ble Sardar Partap Singh, Honoorary Secretary, Punjab Chiefs'

14Association, Jullundur, No. 1930, dated Sin, la. the L2th Angual L908.

15" Sir, — I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter

16No. 221, dated 3rd August 1908, reporting the proceeding of a Com-

17mittee of the Punjab Chiefs' Association to consider the claims of

18certain persons to be included in the " Punjab Chiefs and Families of

19Note."

202. "I am to request that the thanks of Government maybe

21conveyed to the Committee for their labours and advice and for the

22expression of their sentiments. As regards the nam33 to ba included

23in the book the Government accepts unreservedly the Committee's

24recommendations and is much obliged to the Committee \'^v their help

25in enabling it to arrive at a decision in this matter."