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TWELVE MEN OF BENGAL

have devolved on me by inheritance, and of which the proprietary possession I enjoy up to this present time; as I have no children, nor grand-children, nor other relatives, who would become my legal heirs:—and as I have full wish and desire to keep up and continue the usages and charitable expenditures [Murasumo Ukhrahat-i-husneh] of the Fateha &c., of the Huzrat [on whom be blessings and rewards] which have been the established practice of the family, I therefore hereby give purely for the sake of God the whole of the above property, with all its rights, immunities, and privileges, whole and entire, little or much, in it, with it, or from it, and whatever [by way of appendage] might arise from it, relate or belong to it as a permanent Appropriation for the following expenditures;—and have hereby appointed Rujub Uli Khan, son of Sheikh Mohummud Sadiq, and Shakir Uli Khan, son of Ahmud Khan, who have been tried and approved by me, as possessing understanding, knowledge, religion and probity Mutwallies (trustees or superintendents) of the said Wuqf or Appropriation, which I have given in trust to the above two individuals—that, aiding and assisting each other, they might consult, advise and agree together in the joint management of the business of the said Appropriation, in manner as follows:—that the aforenamed Mutwallies, after paying the revenues of Government, shall divide the remaining