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Rh standard of the native judiciary has been steadily raised. The quality of justice has been sensibly improved. All, and more than all, that Mr. Colvin worked for has been attained; but whatever has been achieved has been on lines similar to those which in his Administration Report for 1855-6 he planned for observance.

So again, in the North-West Police Force, as it was reorganized in 1863, and as it now exists, are embodied many of the reforms for which Mr. Colvin strove. He succeeded in reorganizing the staff of Police Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors, so as to reduce the number of the lower and proportionately to increase the pay of the higher grades. To that end he reduced considerably the number of Police stations, bringing those that remained more easily under surveillance. He invested the important class of native Revenue Officers, who are employed, each in his own subdivision, as Sub-Collectors under the English Collector of the District, with some degree of authority and responsibility in Police matters. He established an official Police Gazette, in order to disseminate quickly over the Provinces the news of heinous crimes, and to strengthen a feeling of solidarity among the force. He directed the distribution of Police duties between the District Magistrate and his subordinates, especially enforcing the personal responsibility of the former in regard to the District Police administration. Vigorous measures were taken against organized crime. Outlaws and professional gangs of robbers or