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Administration or the Khan’s and Jiroa Funds.
rrt. » t?vi nHlqVhq is fixed: the income from
The income from the K an s ’consists only of fines in tribal jirga
the jirga Fund is deprived of its income from court fees, which
° a8e n e fund were to be retained for its original purpose, be restored to it.
should, if the fun i> avenue Commissioner, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
After discussion be ween ^ th“ pay of Sardars^f Political
and the AVazir-i-Azam it was b(j p P. d to the p olitica i Agent’s
“rthe^toto Treasury, a P nd the remaining items of the funds be kept
by the Wazir Minister. -i-Azam. ^ r ,
, % transfer of these funds from the Political
It has been urged a h ^a^.bAzam has lowered the prestige of the
Agents fontrol to that ot ^ ^ t i ook more to the Wazir Minister. -i-Azam than
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. a n d causes th ^ ^ 00nsider that there is any thing in this
to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. . become a matter for speculation
view. The battle of th ® £u ^ ® iy[ a Jtung hut I cannot imagine that the trans-
among the offices m Quetta should affect the position
fer of their administration and audit g of expenditure which
of the Political Agen^ f Sar( ^ ars an d of certain thanas and has a lump
really affect him, if, the pay of Sardars oi cer pr0 p 0sin ^ that the
ri^rriclrrxrxi. ’st;; &. .it.,,.
Jhalawan s “ bsi ^ s ‘ d in;stl . a tion of these funds should properly be in the
hands Tttwtt lzSrd^ the transfer each year to the Political
“ °f a sum to cover the following heads of expenditure
2. E a pe 0 ndUure ar on additional establishment for Sardars to replace
present thana establishment,
3. Parbar presents,
4. Special touring charges,
, 5. Special border jirga charges,.
6. Contingencies
would meet all the needs of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . This annual contribution
should be called “The Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Fund”. ^ KE YES, Lieut.-Colonel,
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kalat.,
MEMORANDUM D.
Thana System.
In Sandemsn’s time there were no thanas in the present sense of the term.
There were then levy posts in the Rolan, and levies were used tor
The first thana was established in Mastung in 1892 and was in the nature
of a punitive post paid for by the Sardars of tribes which had been harry „
the Khan’s non-tribal subjects. When other thanas were establish i^
Sarawan they were all paid for from the Jirga Fund. As this fund
chiefly from fines and fees in tribal cases, the thanas were thus vl ? tua P f
for from tribal sources. The first Jhalawan thanas _ were likewise paid
from the money earmarked for Jhalawan tribal subsidies.
By 1905 the thanadar was described by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. as the a si
dar and Police thanadar of a British district rolled into one. ^
system worked on these lines together with the disappearance ot the po
of the Premier Sardars of Sarawan, and Jhalawan was a serious b
system of tribal responsibility.
The abolition of the thana system was advocated by the Agen ° ,
Governor-General in 1912, but the majority of the thanas were mere^ hai
over to the Wazir Minister. -i-Azam. This was not only an aggravation ot tue oojen
able system but was a cause of friction.
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