For it appears that the original deeds were signed by the board
on the 4th September, 1775, and transmitted to Mr. Fowke, the Resident
at the Rajah's court, and that on the 20th of November following the
Court of Directors were acquainted by the said Warren Hastings and the
Council that Rajah Cheyt Sing had been invested with the _sunnud_
(charters or patents) for his zemindary, and the _kellaut_, (or robes of
investiture,) in all the proper forms; but on the 1st of October, 1775,
the Rajah did complain to the Governor-General and Council, that the
_kellaut_, (or robes,) with which he was to be invested according to
their order, "_is not of the same kind_ as that which he received from
the late Vizier on the like occasion." In consequence of the said
complaint, the board did, in their letter to the Resident of the 11th of
the same month, desire him "to make inquiry respecting the nature of
the kellaut, and invest him with _one of the same sort_, on the part of
this government, instead of that which they formerly described to him.
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