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30 There is also a garden attached to the Jail for the prisoners to work in.

The State has now a well -trained Police force under the able supervision of a Police Inspector, who had had good experience in the Madras Police Force. There are also three out-stations for the convenience and the safe- guarding of the villages belonging to the State.

The State dispensary is worked on English lines under a well-experienced and diplomaed Medical Officer of the Civil Medical Department, Madras. The hospital is resorted to not only by the inhabitants of the capital, but also by "those living in the surrounding British tracts. The Medical Officer has a competent assistant, besides three compounders. It is satisfactory to observe that a diplomied midwife is also employed on the staff of the dispensary. The supply of medicine is quite ample, and the instruments are kept in very good order.

There are schools for boys in the head quarters and also in the principal villages. At head quarters there is an English school which teaches up to the Primary Standard.

In October 1873, Saiyid Ghulam Ali Khan Bahadur, the heir-apparent was born. When the news of his birth was announced, it was received with pleasure and delight ' every^vhere, and the people were very jubilant over the event. Proper arrangements were made for the Prince's education, and the services of a suitable tutor were secured to teach him English, Hindustani, Persian and other subjects. He has grown to be an intrepid rider, and a capital huntsman, and bears a very good character. He married the daughter of his uncle, Saiyid Murtuza Ali Khan I Bahadur, on the 7th December, 1900. He has a taste <