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2 SECTION V.—Post OFFICE.
3 Section VI.—Enecrric TELEGRAPH.
4 Section VIL—Marine,
5 Secrion VITI.—FInanciat.
6 Section IX,—EcCLESIASTICAL.
7 SECTION X.—POLiticaL.
8 Section XI.—Mruitary.
9 Section XIJ.—MuscELLANEOUS.
10 Section f.
11 JUDICIAL
12 Part I.—Crivin Justice.
13 5. In former Reports it has been shown how the system of Civil
14 Punjab Law and Pro- Judicature in the Punjab has been founded and
15 cedure, erected ; how that no effort has been ‘spared to
16 render justice cheap, quick, sure, simple, and substantial; how every
17 other consideration has been rendered subordinate to these cardinal
18 points. We are indeed without elaborate Laws, but we have brief
19 Rules, explaining, in an accessible form, the main provisions of the
20 several systems of Native Law, on such matters as inheritance, marriage,
21 adoption, testamentary or other disposition of property; and setting
22 forth the chief principles to be observed in other branches of Law, such
23 as contracts, sale, mortgage, debt, commercial usage. We have the most
24 open and liberal provisions for the admission of evidence. We have com-
25 plete arrangements for reference to arbitration and for the. ascertainment
26 of local custom. We have a. Procedure, without any pretension to
27 technical exactitude; but a Procedure which provides for the litigants,
28 and their respective witnesses, being confronted in open Court, for a
29 decision being arrived at. immediately, after this brief forensic contro-
30 versy, and for judgment being delivered to the parties then and there.
31 We have a method of executing decrees which, while it allows no door to