o his care; because it was his duty, not
only not to be guilty of a breach of those rules himself, but, as dewan,
and exercising the efficient office of _kanungo_, to prevent, detect,
expose, and apprise his employers of every instance attempted to the
contrary; because it was his duty to prevent the government being
defrauded, and the Rajah, a child of nine years old, robbed of his
hereditary possessions, as he would have been, if this transaction had
not been detected: whereas, on the contrary, the dewan is himself the
principal mover and sole instrument in that fraud and robbery, if I am
rightly informed, to the amount of 42,474 rupees[1] in perpetuity, by
which he alone was to benefit; and because he has even dared to stand
forward in an attempt to obtain our sanction, and thereby make us
parties to (in my opinion) a false deed and fraudulent transaction, as
his own defence now shows the bill of sale and all its collateral papers
to be.

"If offences of this dark tendency and magnitude were not to be punished
in a public manner, the high example here set the natives employed
under the government by their first native officer would very soon
render our authority contemptible, and operate to the destruction of the
public revenues. I will not dwell further on the contradictions in these
papers before us on this subject.

"But I beg leave to point out how tenacious the government have been of
insuring implicit obedience to their rules on this subject in
particular, and in prohibiting conduct like that here exhibited against
their public officer, and how sacredly they have viewed the public
institutes on this subject, which have been violated and trampled on;
and it will suffice to show their public orders on a similar instance
which happened some time ago, and which the dewan, from his official
situation, must have been a party in detecting.

"I desire the board's letter to the Committee on this subject, dated the
31st May, 1782, may be read, and a copy be annexed to this minute.

"I therefore move the board that Gunga Govind Sing may be forthwith
required to surrender the original deeds produced by him as a title to
the grant of Salbarry, in order that they may be returned to the Rajah's
agents, to be made null and void.

"I further move the board, that the dewan, Gunga Govind Sing, together
with his naib, Prawn Kishin Sing, his son, and all his dependants, be
removed from their offices, and that the Roy Royan, Ra