In his accounts he receives credit for all sums paid to the troops and establishments on duty under him.

Though the artillery-bullocks get none of the grain, for which he pays and charges Government, a greater portion of the whole of what he pays and charges in his accounts reaches its legitimate destination, perhaps, than of the whole of what is paid from the Treasury at the capital.

On an average, however, I do not think that more than two- thirds of what is paid and charged to Government reaches that destination.
I may instance the two regiments, under Thakur Sing, Tirbaydee; which are always on duty at the palace.

It is known that the officers and sipahees of those regiments do not get more than one-half of the pay which is issued for them every month from the Treasury; the other half is absorbed by the commandant and his patrons at Court.

On everything sold in the palace, the vender is obliged to add one-third to the price, to be paid to the person through whom it is passed in.
Without this, nothing can be sold in the palace by European or native.