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The messages wired to His Highness the Nizam on the 2nd and 3rd June last, by the Rajasahib of Anagondi, about the affairs of his principality, which I quoted at length in my last letter—call for a few comments. They draw His Highness' attention to the following facts:—
(1) That a peishush of Rs.10,000 was imposed on the samasthan in utter defiance of precedent on the occasion of recognition of the present Raja as its head;
(2) that the Minister increase the peisheush to Rs.18,000 with retrospective effect and demanded the immediate payment of 3 year's peisheush, although the Subadar of the Southern Division deputed by the Government to look into the condition of the samasthan, had, after careful inquiry, reported its inability to pay any peisheush;
(3) that Mr. Dunlop, Inspector General of Revenue, made a similar report to that of the Subadar to the Government with no effect;
(4) that several representations made by the Rajabisahib to His Highness, through his Private Secretary, the Nawab Imad-ul-mulk Bahadur, were never placed before His Highness, and that on the last occasion when the Rajahsahib's counsel called upon him, the Nawab plainly told him to go to the Resident for redress;
(5) that when further instalments towards the liquidation of the debt contracted by the Rajasahib's mother in 1293 Fasli, were stopped because of the creditor Bansi Raja's failure to furnish a statement of accounts, Bansi Raja, with the assistance of the Nawab Vicar-ul-mulk, the Revenue Secretary, took forcible possession of the two villages out of the revenues of which his money had been arranged to be paid by annual instalments;
