5th. Home or foreign merchants, traders, Kafilas,[[69]] Banjaras,[[70]] who enter the country, shall be protected. In no wise shall they be molested or injured, and whoever breaks this ordinance, his estate shall be confiscated.
6th. According to command, at home or abroad service must be performed. Four divisions (chaukis) shall be formed of the chiefs, and each division shall remain three months in attendance at court, when they shall be dismissed to their estates. Once a year, on the festival of the Dasahra,[[71]] all the chiefs shall assemble with their quotas ten days previous thereto, and twenty days subsequent they shall be dismissed to their estates. On urgent occasions, and whenever their services are required, they shall repair to the Presence.
7th. Every Pattawat holding a separate patta from the Presence shall perform separate service. They shall not unite or serve under the greater Pattawats: and the sub-vassals of all such chiefs shall remain with and serve their immediate Pattawat.[[72]]
8th. The Maharana shall maintain the dignities due to each chief according to his degree.
9th. The Ryots shall not be oppressed: there shall be no new exactions or arbitrary fines. This is ordained.
10th. What has been executed by Thakur Ajit Singh and sanctioned by the Rana, to this all shall agree.[[73]]
11th. Whosoever shall depart from the foregoing, the Maharana shall punish. In doing so the fault will not be the Rana’s. Whoever fails, on him be the oath (an) of Eklinga and the Maharana.
[Here follow the signatures of all the chieftains of rank in Mewar, which it is needless to insert] [211].
PALACE OF UDAIPUR.
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