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Bobbili hold the title of Rajah hereditarily, while the present incumbents of Vizianagaram and Jeypore also hold the title of Maharaja as a personal distinction, and I beg to suggest that this fact may be authoritatively declared once for all."

(Signed) H. G. TURNER, Collector.

(True Extract). (Signed) R. SURYA ROW, Deputy Collector.

Mr. Turner, the Governor's Agent, visited Bobbili on the 30th November, 1888, and in a Durbar which he held in the evening he presented to the Rajah a Sannad conferring on him the above personal title.

In October he married his third wife, the present Maha-Rani of Bobbili. Her eldest sister is the present wife of the Rajah of Venkatagiri. He built, about a mile and a