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20 COVER N'MEMT. household^ and two in the conduct of the affairs of state, which is as much as to say, that these two departments are of equal importance, — perhaps, af- ter all, no small concession from a despot. The minister and his assistants form a council, the de- liberations of which are, as occasion may require, assisted by calling in those heads of departments, whose advice may be deemed useful, as the Pang- kuluy or High Priest, in matters of religion and jurisprudence ; and the governors of provinces in such affairs as touch their respective jurisdictions. The administration of the provinces is conduct- ed by the vicegerents of the prince, who execute, each within his jurisdiction, all the authority of the sovereign, or nearly the whole of it. They have, as he has, their Pateh, or minister, and he his as- sistants._JJ. miniature of the same form of admi- nistration is discovered, indeed, in the very vil- lages, from which, in effect, the whole institu- tion originally took its origin, as already pointed out. '"^lil* The authority of the immediate deputy of the sovereign is divided and subdivided in proportion to the extent of his province or jurisdiction. This department of administration, in Java, in conse- quence of the great changes brought about by the extension of agriculture, and the increase of popu- lation, is not so well defined as in the more station- ary state of society in Bali, to which I shall, there-