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Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs |
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Nagas on the Sibsagar frontier |
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28. The relations with the Nagas on the frontier of Sibsagar were, as usual, peaceful. Their behaviour was generally satisfactory. They paid the usual visits of courtesy and brought presents of goats, spears, daos, etc. They seem now to thoroughly understand that offenders cannot escape punishment. Five Nagas were criminally convicted for thefts during the year against ten in the previous year. Of these five persons, three were rigorously imprisoned for one month each for stealing betelnuts, tea-leaves and paddy, and the other two were judicially flogged for stealing cattle from the plains. |
