SETTLEMENT OF BHAVNAGAR fort for him, the Rana was called upon to pay a nazarana of twenty thousand rupees, and a few days after the place had been handed over, a settlement of the tribute due to the Gaekwad from Porbandar was drawn up and signed by all parties. It may here be remembered that Rana Haloji had deposed his father, Rana Sultanji, in A.D. 1804 on account of the latter9 s inability to rule, and he acted as Manager of the State on behalf of his father until his death in A.D. 1812, predeceasing him by about one year. The settlement of the Bhavnagar affairs was now undertaken, and here certain difficulties presented them- selves, which were not finally overcome until A.D. 1816. After the Treaty of Bassein in A.D. 1802, when the Peshwa of Poona authorized the British Government to receive Wakhatsinhji GohePs tribute, the rights of the latter in the districts of Dhandhuka, Gogha, and Ranpur became a subject of dispute. While the British collected the revenues, Wakhatsinhji was permitted to retain civil and criminal jurisdiction over the three districts, and this system of dual control was doomed to failure. Wakhat- sinhji had cultivated terms of friendship with the British Government, and realized to the full the security in the undisputed possession of his territories and conquests he was thereby afforded. But he resented stoutly the inter- ference in the affairs of the three places which the terms of the Treaty of Bassein rendered necessary. Nevertheless he met in a friendly spirit the wishes of Colonel Walker and the Gaekwad's Government and a settlement was satisfactorily concluded. Colonel Walker now proceeded to the permanent settle- ment of the tribute due by Junagadh to the Marathas. Matters were complicated here by the personal feelings existing at the time between Raghunathji and the Dewan of Baroda, Vithal Rao. Raghunathji was represented to Colonel Walker as aspiring to overthrow the rule of the 183