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98 robberies, 1409 cases of house trespass or house-breaking, 959 cases of cattle theft and 2,296 cases of ordinary theft.

There are under the care of the Inspector-General 5 Central and 12 District Jails, also a reformatory for boys, and a criminal leper asylum. And a settlement for the tribes that have been declared criminal has lately been opened on a small scale in the Warangal division. In 1320-1321 Fasli (1910-1912 a.d.) the daily average roll of convicts in all the jails was 2,069, and only 3-8 per cent, of the total number of persons admitted (5,524) were literate. Of the prisoners admitted Hindus formed 49.1 per cent, and 19.1 per cent, were Mahomedans. During the two years under consideration, 16 Christians were admitted; and at the Gulbarga Jail I was told that only one Christian had ever been there and that he, during his term of imprisonment, had become a Mahomedan.

There has been a very marked decrease in the number of convicts admitted into the jails of recent years, and this is attributed to the fact that the prisoners are now taught various trades during their incarceration, and consequently return home with a means of earning an honest living. They learn to