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2 - Judicial. . Tn that Department, the Reports are drawn out according to
3 the calendat year. ‘The particular Section of this Report then, which
4 treats of that: ‘Department, will extend up to 81st December 1855, while
5 the Report itself will generally reach up to 30th April 1856.
6 2. -. The country, of which the Administration i is now to be treated of,
7 British Territories of has been: fully described in former Reports. It
8 the Punjab.. - will’ readily be remembered that the British portion
9 of the Punjab Territories, consists of the Cis and Trans-Sutlej States,
10 chiefly acquired after the first Sikh war in 1846, and of the Punjab Proper,
11 annexed after the second Sikh war in 1849. Besides the British Terri-
12 tory, there are many Native States and Kingdoms politically dependent
13 on the Punjab—such are Maha Rajah Goolab Singh’s Kingdom of
14 Cashmeer and Jummoo; the Nawab of Bhawulpoor’s State ; the
15 Protected Sikh States, including Puttiala; the Hill States on both
16 sides the Sutlej; and the like. These have fallen under British control
17 at various dates, some old and some recent. Since the issue of the
18 previous Reports, the advance of stajjstical knowledge enables us to
19 present the status of all these Territories in a more precise shape
20 than heretofore, It may be said in round numbers, that the Bri-
21 tish Territories have an area of eighty-one thousand square (British)
22 miles ; a population of thirteen millions of souls; an annual revenue of
23 two crores of Rupees, or two millions pounds sterling. Again, the Poli-
24 The Political Depen- tical Dependencies have an area of one hundred
25 dencies of the Punjab = thousand square miles; a population of seven
26 taillions of souls ; and an annual revenue of nearly one and a half crores
27 of Rupees, or one and a half millions pounds sterling. Thus the aggre-
28 gate Territories, subject to the Punjab Administration, have an area of
29 one hundred and eighty thousand square miles ; a population of twenty
30 millions of souls, and an annual revenue of three and a half crores of
31 Rupees, or three and a half millions pounds sterling. Besides the above,
32 there frequently arise political affairs ‘with Dost Mahomed, Ameer of
33 Cabul, and other Potentates of Central Asia. And lastly, along a wild
34 and mountainous border, extending from North to South, over full eight
35 ‘hundréd miles, and constituting the most arduous and important Frontier
36 of the whole Empire, there dwell not less than thirty Independent Tribes,
37 some strong and numerous, and all warlike and intractable, warded off by
38 a considerable Military Force, and demanding incessant vigilance.