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GUJARÁT AND THE GUJÁRATIS.

Departments. He seems to be a most efficient and able officer, and has rendered very good service to the Dewan in the matter of police organisation and reform during this year. Sir Mádav speaks with cordial approval of "the rare amount of knowledge, thoughtfulness, and sustained though unostentatious energy" which this officer has expended on the discharge of his onerous and multifarious duties. The strength of the city police force is represented by 1 superintendent, 8 inspectors, 72 subordinate officers, 245 peons,[1] 20 sowars,[2] 4 detectives, and 42 men on office establishment. Besides the usual police expenditure of Rs. 95,508, an extraordinary grant of Rs. 13,923 was made this year. Mr. Superintendent Tubak, generally known in Bombay, has been thanked by the Dewan for having guarded grain-shops during the recent scarcity.

Mr. G. F. H. Hill, CE.

This gentleman is State Engineer at Baroda, and the Department under him has done "very creditable work," to judge from former reports. The total outlay by Mr. Hill's department during

  1. Constables.
  2. Mounted Policemen.