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 BARODA.

i68 6 months’ imprisonment,

and fine up to There are also 3rd and special magistrates. In the city of Baroda, there are 2 magistrates, one of whom may give 2 years’ imprisonment and fine up to the other, 6 months’ imprisonment and fine up to ^20. The total number of criminal cases tried during 1880-81 was 7600. The total number of accused persons was, in round numbers, 15,000; the ratio of convictions was 39 per cent, and of acquittal 31 per cent The police of all the four Divisions, and of the city of Baroda, has been lately reorganized. There is a central jail in Baroda for life prisoners and those sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. In addition, there are 7 zild or District jails and 31 mahal or Subdivisional jails. In the central jail there were, on the ist of April class magistrates

1882, 506 prisoners.

The general administration is carried on in the following manner. The Diwan or Prime Minister exercises supervision over every department. Under one officer are placed the political, military, and settlement departments



under another, the

judicial,

khdngi

(private),

and educational ; under a third, the police, jail, municipality, medical, and public works under a fourth, the audit, treasury, accounts, and mint. The salary of these four officers under the Diwan varies from ;^ioo to ;^iSo a month. Almost every department in the State general,



has been reorganized within the administration of Sir T.

Diw^n on

last

few years, under the energetic

Madhava Rao,

K.C.S.I.,

the installation of the present Gaekwar.

who was appointed Sir Madhava Rao

and was succeeded by Kazi Shdhab-ud-din. State, Baroda has from the earliest times exercised the prerogative of coinage at its own mint. The silver coins are termed the new syashdhi or bdbdshdhi rupees ; the copper coins, Baroda pice. The Baroda rupee is of the value of about 13 dmids ii pies, British In the currency; or 1145 bdbdshdhi are equal to Rs. 100 or ^10. retired in 1883,

As an independent

year ending July 1876, 3,356,438 bdbdshdhi rupees were coined, representing a value of ;^293,i38, and the net profit to the State was

^4252.

In

the year ending July 1882, 1,754,063 bdbdshdhi rupees

were coined, representing a value of 15 3, 193, and the net profit to the State was ;^229i. The Baroda coinage circulates throughout the State generally, and also in the adjoining countries of the Rewa Kantha.

The is

old Broach coinage

at present in

and

is still

in circulation in

Navsari Division.

It

contemplation to strike a coinage similar to the British,

to introduce

machinery into the Baroda mint.

—

The

following

is

A large hole is made in the adopted in coining ground, in which is placed an earthenware vessel capable of containing 20,000 folds of silver; the metal is then poured with spoons into long, thin, shallow moulds, each containing from 10 to 20 tolas of silver. the rude process

still