The first point which he [Robert Clive] offered to their [the Select Committee] consideration was the form of government.
"We are sensible that since the Acquisition of the Dewanny the Power formerly belonging to the Soubah of these Provinces is totally in Fact vested in the East India Company, Nothing remains to him but the Name and Shadow of Authority. This Name, however, this Shadow, it is indispensably necessary we should seem to venerate. Every Mark of Distinction and Respect must be shewn him, and He himself encouraged to shew his Resentment upon the least want of Respect from other Nations."
To employ the Company’s servants as collectors would be declaring the Company to be the executive power (Forrest 335).
Forrest, George. “1765-7: Governor of Bengal.” The Life of Lord Clive, vol. 2, Cassell and Company, 1918, pp. 294-342.