should be Exercised over all those persons who hold posts under the Haikwan and his patronage (Chiefly relatives and dependents). Had he done it would have been no more than his duty, but he had gone further, he had repeatedly urged upon the Haikwan not to make his system of search too strict and rather to lose a meal of Revenue and its interests, but he told him, if he the Haikwan, lost by following his advice, he would bear the blame; that he must Expect to lose something but better that than raise questions the result of which would be illfeeling and complaints. Of course the Haikwan had to provide for Certain Contingencies for which it would be impossible to foretell. He did even more than this, he had a warning conveyed to the Haikwan's subordinates that the severest penalties, even to decapitation, would follow any malpractices on their part, for it would be his duty to prevent the...
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