The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.1.4

3.1.4

(2) On roads where thefts and robberies took place, which roads might be at a little distance from habitations, the jagirdars of the neighbourhood should build sarais (public rest-houses), mosques, and dig wells, which might stimulate population, and people might settle down in those sarais. If these should be near a khalisa estate (under direct State management), the administrator (mutasaddi) of that place should execute the work. (3) The bales of merchants should not be opened on the roads without informing them and obtaining their leave. (4) In my dominions if anyone, whether unbeliever or Musalman, should die, his property and effects should be left for his heirs, and no one should interfere with them. If he should have no heir, they should appoint inspectors and separate guardians to guard the property, so that its value might be expended in lawful expenditure, such as the building of mosques and sarais, the repair of broken bridges, and the digging of tanks and wells.