a small grant from the Zemindar of Karaibari for the family of the Raja then lately deceased. His surviving Ranee still resides on this grant, very much respected by the hill people. The violent spirit of the father however descended to the last of his children, a bastard son, who a few years ago was banished for life in a case of manslaughter, or murder, committed in a fit of rage. If the Ranee conceives that she was improperly dispossessed of the immense, but little valuable estate of Karaibari, it may perhaps be some consolation for her to know, that the purchase of the estate has been the ruin of the Lahouri family, who from their official connection with the authorities of Rungpore, became the purchasers of it. No sooner had the original purchaser, at great cost, obtained possession of the estate, than he died, and for fourteen years following, the sons have been embroiled in a hitherto fruitless and expensive litigation, under the Bantwarah regulations, for the purpose of dividing the estate into two portions of four and twelve anna shares, agreeable to their own agreement, in the first instance, duly ratified by the decrees of the Sudder Dewanny.
Mr. Scott in a great measure succeeded in reducing the Garos to subjection, and brought them under the immediate management of the British government by placing a range of country, which both the Zemindars of N. E. Rungpore and the Garos equally claimed, under the controul of government officers, and thus preventing any future interference of the Zemindars with the Garos. The rents of these Mehals, called the Garo Mehals, were settled with the Garos, and the profits divided between government and the Zemindars; they are still thus managed, causing no trouble as far as these Mehals are concerned. Mr. Scott also withdrew the jurisdiction of the Zemindars from the hauts, or market places, and placed them on a footing which
