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શેઠ આ૦ ક0ની પેઢીને ઇતિહાસ 21st. When a revisal is called for it is to be made by persons appointed by the Political Agent in Kathiawar or any other Officer of Government for the time being holding chief civil authority in the Peninsula.
22nd. The rate is to be determined by an actual count of the Pilgrims visiting the Shrines, and as it is necessary to provide against unfair means being used either to increase or decrease the number of Pilgrims visiting the Temples during the period of the enumeration the chief civil authority should be at liberty to extend his scrutiny over a period of two years and to make his count continuous or intermittant during that period.
23rd. During the time of the scrutiny the amount of tax in force during the last decade is to be continued and is to remain unaltered until the next new year after the conclusion of the investigation.
24th. The cost of the enumeration is to be borne exclusively by the party calling for it.
25th. The amount is to be determined by assuming that each Pilgrim pays two rupees for Pilgrim tax or "kur."
26th. The only exceptions to be allowed are as follows :1. The descendants of Set Santidass. II. All Priests and paid servants permanently attached to the
temples on the Hill. III. The Thakoor of Palitana, his relation and his paid
servants. IV. Persons who have permanently resided in the Town of
Palitana for one year and who wish constantly to ascend the Hill. This may be assumed to pay a yearly fee of
five rupees in lieu of the sum of two rupees for each visit. 27th. I owe some apology to the Thakoor of Palitana and to the representatives of the Shrawuck sect for the long delay of three months that has occurred in arriving at this decision.
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