As I have before mentioned, the Oude Government has this season issued an order to all revenue collectors to refuse to recognise any increase to the _nankar_ that has been made since the year A.D.1814, or Fusilee 1222, when Saadut Allee died, as none has since that year received the sanction of Government, though the _nankar_ has been more than doubled within that period in the manner above described by local authorities.

The increase to the _nankar_, and the alienation in rent-free tenure of lands liable to assessment in 1814 by local authorities and influential persons at Court, are supposed to amount in all Oude to forty lacs of rupees a-year.

None of them have been formally recognised by the Court, but a great part of them has been tacitly acquiesced in by the minister and Dewan for the time being.

They cannot enforce the order for reverting to the _nankar_ of 1814, and if they attempt to do so the whole country will be in disorder.
Indeed, the minister knows his own weakness too well to think seriously of ever making such an attempt.

The _seer_ lands are those which the landholders and their families till themselves, or by means of their servants or hired cultivators.