Mughal Administration c9.s6.6

c9.s6.6

The sanad appointing an āmin runs thus: “Do your work with honesty and truthfulness. Exert yourself to perpetuate the cultivation and increase the habitation. You will be held responsible for the portion of the collected revenue deposited with the fotahdar which he keeps in his hands in arrear (i.e., without paying it into the treasury). Urge the krori to collect the revenue according to his own assessment and deposit it with the fotahdar. Give temporary receipts (chithā) for the money that the ryots pay to the fotahdar, under your seal and the fotahdar's signature, and at the time of payment of revenue in full (bebāqi) make up the account according to this chithā. Do not collect any ābwāb like bālā dasti and tahsildāri, as all these have been forbidden by the Emperor. Warn the chaudhuris and qānungoes not to exact any such cess."