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પાલીતાણા રાજ્ય સાથે થયેલા રખેપાના કરાર
૨૭૯
If I have been slow it has been because I was excessively anxious to frame a scheme which by its fairness and moderation would put a period to the illfeeling which has so long existed in connection with the subject.
Katt. Political Agency,
(Signed ) R. H. KEATINGE Camp Wadhwan,
Political Agent, 5th December, 1863.
(પાલીતાણું જૈન કેસ, ૫૦ ૧૩૭ થી ૧૪૩) ૩૬. કાઠિયાવાડના એકિટંગ પેલીટીકલ એજન્ટ મેજર ડબલ્યુ. ડબલ્યુ. એન્ડરસને મુંબઈ સરકારના
ચીફ સેક્રેટરી મિ. એચ. એલ. એન્ડરસન ઉપર તા. ૧૫-૧-૧૮૬૩ના પત્રમાં આ વાત નીચે મુજબના શબ્દોમાં લખી હતી
R! 17: "Taking Major Barr's proposal, therefore, as my basis towards endeavouring to compromise the matter, I found the Thakore willing on receiving a sum equivalent to triple the former amount, and to pass a new deed binding himself and his heirs in perpetuity to relinquish all further claims, whilst the Shravuk's kamdar, refusing to allow the original deed to be superseded was willing to give the extra sum Major Barr had fixed, viz., Rs. 7,500 and permission to cut and use grass on certain parts of the mountain, or Rs. 6,500 if this were not allowed and they had to purchase it. ... ... This, though acceptable to the Thakore, did not meet the views of the Shravuks."
(દફતર નં. ૧૩, ચેપડા નં. ૧૧૪, પૃ. ૪૮૬) ૩૭. શેઠ આણંદજી કલ્યાણજીની પેઢી તરફથી, મુંબઈના ગવર્નર સર એચ. બી. ઈ. ફીયરને, મેજર
કીટિંજના ફેંસલા સામે, તા. ૧૫–૪–૧૮૬૪ના રેજ, જે અપીલ કરવામાં આવી હતી, તેમાં જે માગણી કરવામાં આવી હતી તેનું મૂળ અંગ્રેજી લખાણ આ પ્રમાણે છે
“Your petitioner, therefore, for and on behalf of the Shravuk community, most humbly prays that your Excellency in Council will be pleased to reject the scheme which has been framed by Major Keatinge. That your Excellency in Council will give such directions as may be necessary to carry out the agreement of A. D. 1821. And that your Excellency in Council will order and compel the present and all future Thakores and Chieftains of
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