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2 3. At the head of the Administration in these Territories, is a Chief:
3 ‘rie wickinsry OF ae Commissioner and Agent to the Governor General’
4 neral Administration. of India ; at- Lahore,. the “head-quarters.. of. the
5 Administration, there reside a a udicial. Commissioner, acting as Minister
6 of Justice in all branches, and a Financial’ Commissioner, controlling: call
7 fiscal departments. For administrative purposes, there are twenty-seven
8 Districts, which are grouped | Ynto seven Divisions or Commissionerships.
9 “For Public Works, there is’ a Chief Engineer, presiding over a greater
10 number of Civil, and also of Military works, divided into two circles
11 of superititendence ; and thus commanding one of the largest, if not
12 the largest, Engineering Department in the Empire. Not only is a
13 large section of. the Regular Army, especially of the European Forces,
14 cantoned in these Territories, but there is also a considerable body, of
15 which the Chief Commissioner has the Military control, consisting of an
16 Irregular Force of 13,700 men, under a Brigadier, and also a Military
17 Police Force, 9,765 strong ; the whole numbering about 23,465 men.
18 4, A general idea may be thys obtained of the country and the Ad-
19 ministration about to be particularized in the following pages. The
20 whole will be arranged into the Chapters, and sub-divisions of Chapters,
21 recently prescribed by Government, as follows :—
22 Arrangement of to- SECTION I.—JUDICIAL.
23 pica, . Part £.—Ciyil Justice.
24 , » JII.—Criminal Justice,
25 » 41I.—Police Force.
26 » IV—ails.
27 Section IT.—-RevEnve.
28 Part J—WLand Tax.
29 » £2.—Customs, Excise and Opium.
30 » I1T—Salt.
31 » IV.—Stamps and Miscellaneous.
32 Secrion ITI.—Epvucation.
33 Secrion IV.—Pusric Works,
34 Part I.—Roads and Bridges.
35 » 4£1.—Railroads.
36 » 4II.—Canals and Irrigation.
37 » 4IV-—Military and Miscellaneous.