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 15G THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES

Zhob valley and Kakar Khurasan ; in 1896 Chagai and Western Sinjrani were included in administered territory ; in 1899, the Nuskhi Niabat was made over by the Khan of Kalat on an annual quit-rent of 9,000 rupees ; and in 1903 the Nasirabad tahsil was acquired from the Khan on an annual quit-rent of 117,500 rupees. The area of British and administered territory is 46,960 sq. miles, and the population (1911) 379,646. The head of the civil administra- tion is the Chief Commissioner and Agent to the Governor-General. Next in authority is the Revenue Commissioner, wdio is also the Judicial Com- missioner, and as such exercises the poAvers of a High Court, except in cases of Europeans for whom the Chief Court of the Punjab is a High Court. The area under the direct administration of the Chief Commissioner and Agent to the Governor-General, is divided into 6 districts, each in charge of a Political Agent as follows : Quetta-Pishin, Sibi, Zhob, Loralai, Rolan Pass, Chagai. The Political Agents are also the Collectors, District Magis- trates, and Sessions Judges, and are assisted by European Assistant-Political Agents and either native or European Extra- Assistant Commissioners and a staff* of subordinate revenue and judicial officials. The Political Agent in charge of the Bolan Pass is also Political Agent for Kalat and Las Bela.

In the directly administered territory the chief items of revenue are : Land revenue, excise, court fees and stamps, and judicial fines, &c. In some places the land revenue is levied in money in accordance with a fixed assessment, but generally it is levied in kind. This is usually one-sixth of the crop ; but in the Sibi tahsil it is two-ninths, and on the lands of the Shebo and Khushdil irrigation canals, constructed by the Government, the proportion is one-third. In Nasirabad the assessment per acre of the cultivated area varies from 8 annas to Rs. 4 according to the crops raised and means of water-sup])ly. For revenue purposes each district is divided into tahsils, each of which is in charge of a native official known as a Tahsildar, who has a Naib-Tahsildar, Kanungos and Patwaris subordinate to him. The revenue from all sources averages approximately Rupees 13,74,000.

Regular troops are cantoned at Quetta, Cliaman, Fort Sandeman, and Loralai, and detachments are stationed at difi"erent places, principally in the Zhob and Loralai Districts, for the preservation of law and order. There is also a police force, supplemented by levies and the Zhob militia, Makran and Chagai Levy Corps. The latter are recruited from the local tribes, and have their owm leading men as officers.

The medical work of the Province is under the Chief Medical Officer, and there are Civil Surgeons at Quetta, Loralai, Fort Sandeman and Chaman, and Civil Assistant-Surgeons at Silu, Shahrig, Mach, Kalat and Panjgur.

2. The Native States of Kalat- and Las Bela. — The leading chief of Kalat is Sir Mi'r Mahmud Khan, G.C.I.E., Becjlar Btgi Khan of Kalat, who suc- ceeded on the abdication of his father, the late Mir Khudadad Khan, in November, 1893.

Khans of Kalat. Mir Ahmad I., C. .. . 1667 Mir Muhammad Nasir Khan

Mir Mehrab I., C. .. . 1696 L, C 1751

Mir Samandar, C. .. . 1698 Mir Mahmvid Khan I. C.. 1794 Mir Ahmad II, C. .. . 1714 Mir Mehrab Khan II. . . 1817 Mir Abdulla, C. .. . 1716 Mir Shah Nawaz Khan. . 1839 MirMuhabat, C. .. . 1731 Mir Nasir Khdn II. . . 1840

, Mir Khudadad Khan. . 1857

From March, 1863, to May, 1864, the Masnad (Throne) was usurped by Khudaddd Khan's cousin. Sherd il Khan.