New orders are then got for the new officers, and sent to his regiment, and the same game is played over again.
Native officers and sipahees, in the privilege of presenting petitions through the Resident, are now restricted to their own claims and those of their wives, fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters.

They cannot petition through the Resident for the redress of wrongs suffered, or pretended to have been suffered, by any other relations.

In consequence, it has become a common custom with them to lend or sell their names to more remote relations, or to persons not related to them at all.

The petition is made out in their own name, and the real sufferer or pretended sufferer, who is to prosecute the claim, is named as the mookteear or attorney.

A great many bad characters have in this way deprived men of lands which their ancestors had held in undisputed right of property for many generations or centuries; for the Court, to save themselves from the importunity of the Residency, has often given orders for the claimant being put in possession of the lands without due inquiry or any inquiry at all.