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Finally, at the time of the last agreement, it was distinctly laid down, that should either party to the agreement desire a modification of the amount payable, upwards or downwards, they must resort to the mediation of the supreme Government, without whose sanction no such modification can be made. By the proposed action to levy this tax, the Palitana Durbar has set at defiance the letter as well as the spirit of the said agreement, and claimed a right which is not warranted by the history of the case, and cannot possibly be permitted by the equity of the entire question.
WANTED-JUSTICE.
Such in short is the genesis and the actual situation of this most vexed problem. The Jain community has an unanswerable case in history, in equity, in point of the general policy accepted universally and unquestionably by the supreme authority in the land. They cannot allow this matter to be left to the tender mercies of the Palitana authorities. True to the traditions of loyalty and law-abidingness, the Jain community has agreed to refer the question to the decision of the supreme British Government in India. Let not the Thakore beg the whole question by this ill-advised attempt to
