This was all left to his three daughters and their husbands on his death, which took place soon after.

He was succeeded in office by Hakeem Mehndee.

Shums-od Dowlah's pension of 16,666 10 6 a-month, was paid out of the interest, at 6 per cent., of the loan of one crore, eight lacs, and fifty thousand rupees, obtained from the sovereign of Oude (Ghazee-od Deen Hyder, who succeeded his father on the 11th of July, 1814,) by Lord Hastings, in October, 1814, for the Nepaul war.

All the interest (six lacs and fifty-one thousand) was, in the same manner, distributed in stipends to different members of the family, and the principal has been paid back as the incumbents have died off.

Some few still survive.* [* The ground, on the north-west side of Morowa, would be good for a cantonment, as the soil is sandy, and the plain well drained.