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[[Memorandum: Mem: Saturday March 16th 1782
Sir Robert Chambers by the mistake of his watch going a hour too fast came to the Court house before Sir Elijah Impey: I talked with Sir Robert Cambers in my room about the appointment of a maulvi who has been long vacant: I told him I suspected Mohammed Vaez who was recommended by Sir Elijah and by his coachman; and by Sookmoy; was to share the salary with the coachman or to give the coachman some money and that I thought it shameful to take a maulvi, on such a recommendation: this Mohammed Vaez is not a maulvi otherwise than by the appointment of the new pretended collage established by Sudr Ud Dine: he is a man of a moderate degree of learning; and not a bad character: he is as Sir Elijah Impey says the best of the two maulvi of the Sudr Diwani:
Sir Robert Chambers mentioned to me a man of great learning called . . . . . . . which came here with Sidot Ally: he said if he could get up early enough he could speak to the Governor about this man:
Sir Robert Chambers said it might probably be true that the coachman or
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