The Book of Akbar 208.1.16

208.1.16

And let it be arranged that Mu'izzu-d-din Husain kalāntar (magistrate), of Herat, appoint a good writer who is a man of experience, to write a full diary from the day that the 500 make the reception (istiqbāl) to the day that he comes to the city, and let it be sealed and despatched by the asylum of dominion, and let all the stories and remarks, good or bad, which pass in the assemblage, be reduced to writing and be sent by the hands of trusty persons, so that we be fully informed of all that occurs.