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whether it was true or false then Zakariah said to me as you are acquainted with Kazee and Maftees desire them to after their seals upon that paper & I will pay them from thousand Rupees I told him well I will ask them afterwards when I met with the Kazee & Muftees I mentioned these words to them both of them refused, their names were Kazee sabdee and Gullaum Mahkdoom – they refused and said it could not be done it was improbable to do it.
Zakariah did not say any thing more to persuade me to sign this paper I do not know any more relating to this paper.

Cros examined
As the time of these Conversations I had no employment a short time before that period I had given up my employment I found a duty upon Houses & other [ILL]. It is God that provide every one with Victuals. What I gained before I had not yet consumed from that time to this I have some times been employed as a Sessawaul and in other employment I was sent to the Pergunnahs as an Aumeer to decide disputes. I have no Employment. I am sent here by the Gentlemen to give Evidence. The Person who brought me to give Evidence in his part pays me for my subsistence. I get only 110 or 112 Rupees a month for my expences of my servants. I receive nothing for my Family. I have received it ever since I arrived here. It is seven months ago since I arrived at Patna. I spent two hundred Rupees per Month.
I have already said I did not look at the Hebbanamah
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