He is ostensibly required to limit himself to this sum, and to abstain from taking the gratuities, usually exacted by the _revenue contractors_, for distribution among ministers and other influential persons at Court.
Were he to do so, they would all be so strongly opposed to the _amanee_, or trust system of management, and have it in their power so much to thwart him, in all his measures and arrangements, that he could never possibly get on with his duties; and the disputes between them generally results in a compromise.

He takes, in gratuities, something less than his contracting predecessors took, and shares, what he takes, liberally, with those whose assistance he requires at Court.

These gratuities, or nuzuranas, never appeared, in the public accounts; and were a governor, under the _amanee_ system, to demand the full rates paid to contractors, the more powerful landholders would refer him to these public accounts, and refuse to pay till he could assure them of the same equivalents in _nanker_ and other things, which they were in the habit of receiving from contractors.
These, as a mere trust manager, he may not be able to give; and he consents to take something less.

The landholders know that where the object is to exact the means to gratify influential persons about Court, the Nazim would be likely to get good military support, if driven to extremity, and consent to pay the greater part of what is demanded.

When the trust manager, by his liberal remittances to Court patrons, gets all the troops he requires, he exacts the full gratuities, and still higher and more numerous if strong enough.