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forward by the Durba. that it has sovereign right to levy payment from the pilgrims as a matter of internal taxation for revenue purposes. Col. Watson's opinion is clear, beyond the pos. sibility of misunderstanding, when he declares that even the tax for sanitary purposes is not to“ be regarded as a kind of personal income for the Durbar, but is to be wholly reserved for the purpose for which it is levied and for that purpose only.
The proceedings of 1886 clearly establish that the method and quantum of the levy of the Rakhopa money was to be determined only by the agreement of parties with the ratification of the British Government; and any alteration of the amount of the payment could only be made if permitted by the British Government. The matter was treated not as one between the Palitana Durbar and its subjects, but was considered as a question arising out of contractual relations between two parties, the Palitana Durbar and the Jain community, a large body of whom are British subjects; and protection of whose rights and vested interests in the Shatrunjaya Hill is and must be the special care of the British Government.
THE CENTRAL FEATURE. .. The central feature of the arrangement of 1886 is that it firmly established for all time the
