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tions. One of the conditions of the grant was that within a year of its date the two brothers should

the petitioners that they would obtain great indulgence and graces from the protection of the said Governor and Captain General. Wherefore the petitioners who were ever since brought up under the Portuguese protection in Surat with great delight acceded to the proposal of the said Jacinto Domingos . . . they rapidly came down to Daman where they founded an establishment of manufacturing with various tanks of tincturing, calling out from Surat and other parts able manufacturers, advancing to them sums of money, and employing various other manufacturers from Daman who were unemployed for about four years supporting themselves by other means of life, meanwhile the increase up to that day was very great. This undertaking was never before so well realised by any of my subjects in those Dominions although many were desired so to do, That the petitioners had greatly increased the manufacturing business by employing numerous manufacturers and by manufacturing Chintz of Broach and its Colours. And whereas in Daman the jealousy of rivals was increased, and in consequence of this the proprietors (the petitioners) suffered much in their merchandise in Surat in recovery of their money, so that they were not attended to. That it was necessary for the petitioners to have some sure means of subsistence to their families, to remove themselves to Daman and there to establish their merchandise, and for the reasons above mentioned and with a view to remedy any unforeseen eventuality . . . requested the above-mentioned Governor and Captain General to grant them (the petitioners) upon a lease by a reasonable tax the village Varacanda now belonging to my Royal Treasury. . . . That the charter may be granted to them for three lives (generations) the first being in fayour of the son of the first petitioner Shapurji Mervanji—the second in favour of the grandson or in favour of any other person whom he may appoint—and the third in the same way. First on condition that the said petitioners should together with their families go to the Port of Daman within a year there to establish perpetually their residence. Second, Not to disturb any workman who might be now residing in the manufacturing houses of Canaginus which are now being manufactured there—they the petitioners should rather bring other workmen from outside of that Port for manufacturing Cadios and other cloth. Third, To promote the cultivation of cotton upon all the ground of the above-mentioned village where it may be productive and to bring it up well as that no part of it may remain uncultivated. . . .”