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                                  The Honourable East India Company.
                                                                                Dr.
                         To Khodada Alt of Bassidorefor the expenses incurred on account of the slave
                               depot at Bassidorc from the 1st May 1858 to 31st October 1838.

                                                                    R ATX.         Amount.
                            Quantity.           Species.
                                                                            Par
                                                                 Krans. Gauz.    Krans. Gauz.
                             3*4  12  Fresh meat ...               I         3 lbs.  74  90
                             449  8  Vegetable® ...                S        too lbs.  32  85
                            1.133  13  Rice                       16              179  80
                             324  12  Dhall                       12               36  97
                             112  6  Ghee                         60               67  40
                              33  Ml  Curry stall ...             SO               16
                              28  m  Salt   «i«   Ml               1                   38
                            3.596    Wood, fire ...                6       1,000 lbs.  21  58
                          33 in No.   Ml  Deds, one for each man   8         each  184  IM
                          33 suits   Clothes for 16 males ...     (5         each  160
                           14 suits   Clothes for 7 females M      6         each  84
                          10 in No.   Pots, tin, for drinking ...  t           3   s
                          5 in No.   Dishes, wooden   ...      Mf  I         each  5
                           1 in No.  Matron’s pay at 1st May to 9th June   16  'month  30
                           1 in No.  Matron's pay at 5th August to 31st October 1858   16  month  45  94
                           10 mats   Re-matting slave huts ...     1         each  to



                                                        Total    Mahomed Shah Krans ... 934   48
                                    Which at the 'exchange of 309 Mahomed Shah Krans per 100 casks is equal to
                                     Company's Rs. 442-3-6.


                            Received from the Resident in the Persian Gulf the sum of Mahomed Shah
                        Krans 924 (nine hundred and twenty-four) and 48 Gauz (forty-eight Gauz) on
                        payment of the above account.
                                                                  The seal of Khodada Alt.


                            I do hereby certify that the articles mentioned in this account have been
                        duly supplied to the slave depflt for the period embraced and that the same were
                        of good quality.
                                                          E. A. S. MIG NON, Slave Agent,
                                                                           Bassidore Depot.


                            I do hereby certify ;thdt from enquiry made the prices of the articles charged
                        for in this account are at the fair market prices of Bassidore.
                                                  GRIFFITH JENKINS, Commodore, l.N.,
                                                            Commanding the Bassidore Station.
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