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1914-1915O RELATIONS WITH TRIBUTARY STATES AND FRONTIER AFFAIRS. 3
The crops were moderate, and the labour prosperous. There was a slight increase in the
prices of food-grains due to war.
Chapter I.
physical
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POLITICAL.
Tributary States.
Kathiawar.
4. The total strength of the States’ and Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. police was 7,824 and the cost Police.
Rs. 13,97,707. The percentage of convictions of accused persons sent for trial was 65-52 for
the States’ police and 52-88 for the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. police. The percentage of stolen property
recovered was 41-82 and 18-45 respectively.
5. The number of Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. courts rose from 21 to 22. The number of offences C riminal j us ' ice -
reported was 1,221 in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and 18,230 in the States, involving 1,724 and 20,990
persons respectively. Of these, 525 persons or 2-3 per cent, were convicted by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and 7,248 persons or 31-9 per cent, by the State courts. Twenty-one criminal appeals and
16 revision applications were decided by the court of the Agent to the Governor, Kathiawar,
while the States courts decided 712 criminal appeals. The Chief Court of Criminal justice
disposed of 28 sessions cases as against 33 in the preceding year.
6. There are 13 Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and 124 State prisons. The total number of prisoners Prisons,
remaining in jails at the end of the year w r as 873. The total cost amounted to Rs. 1,08,089.
The daily average of prisoners rose from 742 to 806.
7. The total number of original cases disposed of was 1,865 by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. courts and justice.
24,002 by the States’ courts. Cases pending numbered 279 and 2,548 respectively. The
courts disposed of 34,192 applications for execution of civil decrees, leaving a balance of 9,631
at the end of the year. One hundred and two civil appeals were disposed of in the court of
the Agent to the Governor, Kathiawar, leaving 28 pending at the close of the year. In the
States’ courts 1,448 appeals were disposed of, 413 remaining for hearing. The Agent to the
Governor, Kathiawar, disposed of 81 political appeals as against 85 during the previous year.
8. In the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. courts 310 deeds and in the States’ courts 6,043 deeds were Registration,
registered. The value of the property affected rose from Rs. 39,93,023 to Rs. 45,25,585.
9. The total expenditure rose from Rs. 27,42,842 to Rs. 33,00,385. The amount spent Public works,
by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Engineer was Rs, 2,09,489 as against Rs. 1,39,104 last year.
10. The gross revenue of the States is approximately 2 crores of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . The amount Revenue and
recovered on account of loans granted by Government chiefly to meet famine and administra- findncu
five charges was Rs. 9,26,721 out of the total outstanding balance of Rs. 39 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . No fresh
loans were sanctioned.
11. The receipts and expenditure of the consolidated local fund were respectively Local funds.
Rs. 3,29,600 and Rs. 3,75,837 as against Rs. 3,82,132 and Rs. 3,00,700 in the preceding year.
Excluded local fund accounts show Rs. 2,71,884 and Rs. 2,82,993 as receipts- and expenditure
respectively.
12. Exports by sea amounted in value to Rs. 3,84,24,894 and imports to Rs. 2,84,64,546. Trade.
Compared with the returns of 1913-14, there is an increase of Rs. 6,73,466 in exports and of
Rs. 78,02,306 in imports. The rail-borne local trade rose from 306,469 to 390,065 tons. The
foreign .trade imports aggregated 170,380 tons and exports 141,475 tons as a g amst 1 53-774
and 136,654 tons during the previous year.
13. There were 87,148 births and 54,420 deaths as against 74,459 and 57,050 last Vital statistics,
year. The ratio per thousand were respectively 35'18 and 21-97. The deaths from plague
numbered 1,214 as against 240 in 1913-1-I and 384 in 1912-13.
14. There are 136 hospitals and dispensaries in the province, of which 17 are under the Medical relief,
control of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. surgeon. During the year 8,041 in-door and 813,462 out-door patients
w 7 ere treated in these institutions at a cost of Rs. 3,77,151. In the Rasulkhanji Hospital for
women 184 in-patients and 1,794 out-patients were treated during the year at a cost of
Rs. 15,926. Vaccinations and re-vaccinations numbered 86,425 as against 76,438 in the
preceding year.
15. There was an increase of 60 schools and 3,520 pupils during the year. The total Education,
number of schools is 1,681 and of pupils 119,902 (boys 102,383 and girls 17,519). the
expenditure on education amounted to Rs. 12,33-644- an increase of Rs. 25,633 over the last
year’s figure.
16. There were 30 kumars on the roll of the college at the end of the year. The Rajkumar College,
receipts, including the Government grant, amounted to Rs. 76,094 and the expenditure to
Rs. 75 - 475 -
17. Horse-breeding, except for purely local purposes, is no longer found remunerative Horse-breeding,
by any State. The paddocks at Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Palitana retain their high reputa
tion. Jasdan, Manavadar and Rajkot each maintain a small stud.
18. There are 4 States of classes I to IV under Government management on account Managed estates,
of minority. The Malia State was handed over to its Chief on the 25th September 1914. The
post of the Superintendent, Managed Estates, Kathiawar, was abolished with effect from the
1st April 1914 and 397 petty estates then under his supervision' were handed over to the
Political Agents in chargetof prants. Two hundred and eighty-seven estates, mostly of
small size, were released and 72 were taken under management.