Administrative System of the Marathas c9.26

c9.26

All letters in which royal signature is to be inserted, handnotes, and documents with seals, should be written by the Chitnis. All letters about the appointment to the command of forts and strongholds, grants of saramjam, inam, or watans, or communication about any assignment accompanied by the customary clothes of honour, should be written by the Chitnis, as well as letters specifying contribution, fine, harki or subscription and nazar (to be paid by the addressee). He should also frame a list of these and send it to the Daftar. The officers there will accordingly make their accounts of income and expenditure. Closed letters and handnotes should be written by the Chitnis, no one but the Chitnis should put his sign in the handnotes.