The Nazim has charge of the districts of Sultanpoor, Haldeemow, Pertabghur, Jugdeespoor, and that part of Fyzabad which is not included in the estate of Bukhtawar Sing, yielding, altogether, about ten and a half lacs of rupees to Government.  He exercises entire fiscal, judicial, magisterial and police authority over all these districts.  To aid him in all these duties, he has four deputies—­one in each district—­upon salaries of one hundred and fifty rupees each a-month, with certain fees and perquisites.  To inquire into particular cases, over all these districts, he employs a special deputy, paid out of his own salary.  All the accountants and other writers, employed under him, are appointed by the deputies and favourites of the minister; and, considering themselves as their creatures, they pay little regard to their immediate master, the Nazim.  But over and above these men, from whom he does get some service, he has to pay a good many, from whom he can get none.  He is, before he enters upon his charge, obliged to insert, in his list of civil functionaries, to be paid monthly, out of the revenues, a number of writers and officers, of all descriptions, recommended to him by these deputies and other influential persons at Court.  Of these men he never sees or knows anything.  They are the children, servants, creatures, or dependents of the persons who recommend them, and draw their pay.  These are called civil sufarishies, and cost the State much more than the military sufarishies_, already mentioned—­perhaps not less than six thousand rupees a-month in this division alone.

The Nazim is permitted to levy for incidental expenses, only ten per cent. over and above the Government demand; and required to send one-half of this sum to Court, for distribution.  He is ostensibly required to limit himself to this sum, and to abstain from taking the gratuities, usually exacted by the revenue contractors, for distribution among ministers and other influential persons at Court.  Were he to do so, they would all be so strongly opposed to the amanee, or trust system of management, and have it in their power so much to thwart him, in all his measures and arrangements, that he could never possibly get on with his duties; and the disputes between them generally results in a compromise.  He takes, in gratuities, something less than his contracting predecessors took, and shares, what he takes, liberally, with those whose assistance he requires at Court.  These gratuities, or nuzuranas, never appeared, in the public accounts; and were a governor, under the amanee system, to demand the full rates paid to contractors, the more powerful landholders would refer him to these public accounts, and refuse to pay till he could assure them of the same equivalents in nanker and other things, which they were in the habit of receiving from contractors.  These, as a mere trust manager, he may not be able to give; and he consents to take something less.  The landholders