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 CHAPTER X.

1. CIVIL STATIONS.—The whole face of the country is mapped out into convenient provinces or zillahs,consisting on an average of two or three thousand square miles, with a population of six or eight hundred thousand, and are venue of one or two hundred thousand pounds. In the centre, or some more convenient spot, the station is fixed, the residents being a collector of the revenue and a magistrate for the administration of justice, each having one or more European assistants;an assistant-surgeon, numerous native officials, a large jail, containing from six to twelve hundred prisoners, and a small detachment of troops.

In every town and every village the collector and the magistrate have their native representatives. Every breach of the peace, every defection of revenue is immediately made known at the zillah station, and the culprits are liable to be brought before the European courts.

2. DUTY AND PAY OF CIVIL SURGEONS.—An order was at one time given that no Assistant-surgeon should hold permanent charge of a civil