The Istimrari chieftains,Reginald M.A. Branson, Digest of all the Cases relating to India, page 1317 accordingly, acquired the habit of regarding themselves as holders at a fixed and permanent quit-rent; and although during the earlier period of British rule extra cesses were levied from time to time, in 1841 the government remitted all such collections for the future. In 1873 were granted to the various , declaring their existing assessments to be fixed in perpetuity. There is, however, a special due () on successions, its amount being separately stipulated in each .
