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96 yers will be noticed, for the legal profession is popular in Hyderabad, and the supply of pleaders is said to exceed the demand. The Hyderabad turban is worn by the lawyers, but no wig or gown.

Law classes and examinations in Urdu, Persian, and Arabic are held in the city, and law students are trained there in civil and criminal law, as it is practised in the various courts in H. H. the Nizam's Dominions, and sanads are granted to successful students, which enable them to become pleaders in Hyderabad. These sanads must be renewed yearly, unless a considerable sum of money is paid for a perpetual sanad, and this arrangement is said to keep a control over the lawyers and to prove more effective than the fear of being "struck off the rolls."

The administration report for 1320-1321 Fasli (1910-1912 a.d.), gives some interesting information concerning policemen and prisons; but it must be remembered that the Paigah estates and the jagirs are not included in these government reports.

The city police are under a kotwal, and consist of 440 officers and 3,072 men. They are smart-looking especially the mounted members of the Force, and on langar day