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that the Sunnadhs authorizing possession of the Muktas etc.,
that Tirumal Rao held, had been granted to him under the
authority and seal of the late Sir Salar Jung II; and that a long
Roobkar issued by the Political and Financial Secretary's office
during the time of the Second Salar Jung on which the whole
case hinged was not so much as referred to in the precis al-
though it had been addressed to the Revenue Secretary and
formed the most important paper of the file of the case in the
Revenue Secretariat. Tirumal Rao, though a very insignificant
man, somehow managed to get a hearing from His Highness
the Nizam. And at the instance of His Highness, than whom
it would be difficult to find a ruler more clear headed and in-
terested in the welfare of his subjects, the case was gone into
by two of the most prominent officers of His Highness' staff.
The Assistant in the Revenue Secretariat who had drawn up
the precis, was Summoned before them, the proceedings which
had resulted in the confiscation of the Muktas etc, were quash-
ed, and the Muktas and Rasoons wero restored to Tirumal Rao.
It is rumoured in the city that orders were about to be passed
for the suspension of the Assistant in the Revenue Secretariat
when the all-powerful Mushtak Hussain interceded and saved
his protege. Now, I ask, should not the Government have
enquired as to the reason for ignoring in the precis the existance
of the Roobkar from the Political and Financial Secretary's
Office! And should not Mnshtak Hussain whose signature the
precis bears be held responsible for it?
Sir Asmanjah has recently issued to the City Kotwal an
order to the effect that he should not arrest any of his own or
the Nawab Vicar-ul-Umra's retainers under any circumstances-
thus making an invidious distinction of his aud Vicar-ul-Umra's
retainers and those of Sir Kurshedjah and other noblemen.
The inadvisability, if not the unreasonableness, of the order is
apparent, and I refrain from making any comments upon it.
I have been placed in possession of some facts giving an insight into the means employed to bring about the non-accep-
