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The reports were got through to whatever authority, and the issues for arranging indemnification were come from anywhere, the execution was István Koháry’s and the military judges’ (István Oroszlány from 1664 to 1676, and Mihály Dúl from 1677) responsibility. They did examined the the injured persons’ cases and did chaired the trials, they did ordered the arresting, they did sentenced the sinner soldiers, and they did enforced the soldiers to give back the loots or indemnify the civil inhabitants.

István Koháry endeavoured to keep a tight hold on his border soldiers, but strictness and power of his general-captaincy was not enough to control him all the time, when they were far from the fortress. He saw clearly that the border soldiers needed supplies and fodder to become ready-to-fight and well-fed soldiers who successfully oppose the Turks and other hostile troops. Each subordinate of him was guilty for the rapturing of the settlements on some level or other, thus, he could not sentenced all of them simultaneously. Though István Koháry called them to account for the crimes, but the punishments were never overdone by him, on the strength of the sources, the soldiers were taken to the jail, were supposed to give back the stolen values, money and living-stock to the original owners or indemnify for them. But the soldiers were very often disinclined to carry out these instructions, because they considered their loots rightfully acquired.

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