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On the 28th May, 1887, the oriental titles of Ihtisham-ul-Mulk, Raes-ud-Dowla and Amir-ul-Omrah were conferred upon him.
Sir Hussan Ali was made a Knig-ht Grand Com- mander of the above order on the 20th May, 1890, under a Royal Warrant, bearing- the sign Manual of Her Majesty the late Queen Victoria.
He set himself with assiduity to the settlement of Nizamut affairs. His labours for the regeneration of the house of Meer Jaffer resulted in an agreement with the Secretary of State, dated the 12th March, 1891, to which validity was given by an Act of the Indian Legislature, securing to him the heriditary titles of Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad and Amir- ul-Omrah, carrying with them the precedence, rank, dignity and priveleges of the Primier Noble of the three provinces of Bengal, Behar and Orissa, descend- able to his male lineal heirs, according to the right of primogeneture, and a stipend payable from the revenues of the Government of British India, besides the income of the Nizamut State lands. This Inden- ture settled the controversy and discussion, which had risen to their height under his father, and which had embarrassed the Nazim's position with those diffi- culties, which proved so full of disaster to His late Highness.
Ever since his assumption of the charge of affairs, the Nawab Bahadur worked with great deligence, effecting vast improvements in all branches of the
