1 96 THE COURT OF THE SIKH SOYEBEIONS.
2 gentleman may not be uncomfortable, and get
3 also his receipts at every stage.
4 Tell the Commandant, Myan Sooltan Ma-
5 homed, and Mirza Manda Alii, to fire eleven
6 rounds from the garrison guns, and twenty-one
7 from the field pieces, an hour before sun-set,
8 when the gentleman arrives. And, Misher, send
9 to Sookraj, and tell him to keep two companies
10 in readiness at Schangur's tomb, as the gentle-
11 man's escort ; and let the Singh regiment be in
12 readiness outside the Tanksalee gate, to accom-
13 pany the gentleman to his quarters.
14 In the mean time the gentleman has arrived.
15 M. — Misher, tell Kutba to call the ladies'
16 [dancers], give them fifty rupees each out of the
17 treasury, and order them to come dressed out.
18 Let Alii Khan receive five hundred rupees,
19 and tell him to have lamps ready in the Saman
20 Bastion an hour before eight. Let Sattar Gard-
21 ner be called, and order him to have an enter-
22 tainment prepared for the gentleman in the
23 Shala Gardens, and tell Baylee Rham to have
24 ready to-morrow, at the Shala Gardens, a pearl
25 necklace, a pair of gold bracelets set with dia-
26 monds, an expensive pair of shawls, five hundred
27 rupees for the gentleman's servants, and a pre-
28 sent for each of his other men.
29 Nikka Dewan, call the Moonshee SarabdhyaL
30 Moonshee, — I am here, your Highness.