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such a clause occured in a document drawn up between two persons equally subject to the ordinary course of Law, I should not scrupple to decide that the lease was to continue in force according to its present terms as long as the lessee chose to make his payments with regularity.
But the case here is different. The Thakore of Palitana is, as I have above stated, a Prince ruling his own territory, he loudly declaims against the terms of the lease, and against the influences which the Srawucks have brought to bear upon his estate, and asserts that the respect he owes to the British Government alone induces him to permit the Shrawuck Agency to continue the collection of this tax.
It must be remembered that this claim is but one of many made by this sect for peculiar privileges and exemptions in Palitana.
9th. Captain Barnwell reported to Government that he had concluded an arrangement for ten years-and as ten year's guarantee, the Government of the day sanctioned his scheme.
The rights of levying some tax on Pilgrims has at all times been claimed by native Government-the responsibility of providing for the protection of these travellers with their numbers, and it is but just that the right of taxation being once conceded the revenue should be in proportion to the numbers who frequent the Shrine.
10th. I would willingly, as stated in my report of the 25th April 1863, have suspended the Government Guarantee, and have given the Thakore permission to manage this affair for himself reserving the right of Government to interfere if he should be proved to have abused the confidence reposed in his moderation and good sense; but the subsequent orders of Government quoted at the commencement of this report direct that a settlement between the parties should be mediated by the Political Agent; I consequently called upon the parties to attend thro' their Agents at Rajcote in the commencement of August.
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