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94 circuit from time to time to inspect the various courts in the city and the districts. The High Court issues rules and regulations for the guidance of all the courts, in consonance with the law, alters laws and suggests to the government the introduction of new laws and the amendment of old ones.

There is, also, a Judicial Committee, composed of Judges, which resembles to some extent the Privy Council in England.

In the capital are the Darul Kaza Court, which exercises jurisdiction in original suits between Mahomedans relating to betrothal, marriage, divorce, guardianship, dowry, inheritance, gifts and funeral expenses, and the City Civil and the City Criminal Courts. And in the suburbs of the city are the Atraf-i-balda Court and the Courts of the British Resident.

In each of the four divisions of the State is a Divisional Judge, and the talukdars and tahsildars in the districts have the powers of first, second and third grade magistrates. Even the police patel, or village policeman, has power over low-class people, being able to lock up a prisoner for a few hours or inflict a fine of one or two rupees. The talukdars have, in busy places, Judicial Assistants, and