속 they are great losers; they hope the Imperial order may be given for them to be received into the treasuries as Surat rupees are, in case they are as good. That any person, being servant to the company, eloping from them, from whom debts and accounts are due, they desire that whosoever so deserts be delivered back to the Chief of their Factory. That their gomashtahs and servants are molested and troubled for Phousdarry, (aboub mumnua) &c impositions which they request they may be exempted from. Commanded and ordered, that from the fifth year of this blessed reign, if Madras rupees are made the same goodness of Surat Siccas, there be no discount on them. That whosoever of the Company's servants being debtors, desert them, seize them, and deliver them to the Chief of their Factory. That they be not molested for phirmaushs and impositions. They petition. That in Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, the Company has Factories; and that in other places they likewise design to settle Factories they accordingly desire, that in any place where they have a mind to settle factories they may have forty begaes of ground given them for the same. That if often happens ships at sea meet with tempestuous winds, and are forced into ports, and are sometimes driven ashore and wrecked, the Governors of the ports injuriously seize on the cargoes of them, and in some places demand a quarter part Salvage. "That in the island of Bombay, belonging to the English, European Siccas are current; they request that, according to the Custom of Madras, they may at Bombay coin Siccas. Commanded and ordered, that according to the cus. tom of their Factories in otherSubahships, execute, these
