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दोन पुरावे २५ त्यांचे लक्ष गुंतल्यामुळे ते काम त्यांच्या हातून त्यावेळी झाले नाहीं असे दिसते. फक्त जे बाजीरावसाहेबांबरोबर बरेच दिवस राहिले किंवा ज्यांनी फितूर वगैरे करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला अशांची इनामें त्यावेळी जप्त केली. पण केव्हातरी विशेष बारीक चौकशी झाली पाहिजे असे त्यांचे मत त्यावेळी होते व ते चुकीचे होते असे म्हणता येणार नाही. मनरो व एल्फिन्स्टन यांच्या पत्रव्यवहारांतले दोन लागू पडणारे उतारे खाली देतो. त्यावरून मी काय म्हणतो हे वाचकांच्या लक्षात येईलच. For instance, when writing to the Hon. Mr. Elphinstone in a letter dated 8 th March 1818 in the camp near Belgaum, Munro says on the subject of the charitable and religeous •expenses in these (S. M. C. ) districts. A large portion of them will be found to have risen from unauthorised grants and other frauds. The wholee should be carefully investigated after peace is restored and the country settled and such part of the expenditure as is of modern date and not duly authorised should be stopped. This course is followed by native Governments at every new succession and frequently more than once in the same reign. Again in a letter to Mr. Elphinstone dated 28 th August 1818, he writes.
- Many Inams will be found on exawination to have been clandestinely given by revenue officers without authority,
Every one from the kurnum of a village to the Subha of the Carnatic, grants both lands and pensions. The... Sursubha or his deputy, when he is about to quit his office fabricates a number of Inains. He gives away some and sells the rest. The new Sursubha resumes some but continues a part of them. When such Inams have not, by long possession, become in
