Provincial Geographies of India/Volume 4/Appendix 2

APPENDIX II

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

(See p. 111)

The rearrangement of Divisions is as follows:

Division Head-
quarters
Districts

Upper Burma

N.E. Frontier Division Mandalay Bhamo, Myitkyina, Putao, Shan States
Mandalay Mandalay Mandalay, Kyauksè, Myingyan, Meiktila, Yamèthin, Minbu, Magwe
N.W. Frontier Division Sagaing Sagaing, Upper Chindwin, Lower Chindwin, Shwebo, Chin Hills, Katha, Pakôkku [Pakôkku Chin Hills]

Lower Burma

Arakan Akyab Akyab, Hill District of Arakan, Kyaukpyu, Sandoway
Irrawaddy Bassein Bassein, Myaungmya, Henzada, Maubin, Pyapôn
Rangoon Rangoon Rangoon, Hanthawaddy, Insein
Pegu Rangoon Pegu, Tharrawaddy, Prome, Thayetmyo, Toungoo
Tenasserim Moulmein Amherst, Thaton, Salween, Tavoy, Mergui

Commissioners have been or are to be relieved of their judicial functions, except that the Commissioner will still be Sessions Judge for the Hill District of Arakan, Kyankpyu, Sandoway, Myitkyina, Putao, and Bhamo.

Similarly Deputy Commissioners will cease to be District Judges except in the last mentioned districts and in the Upper Chindwin. The Divisional and Sessions Judge of Amherst will be Sessions Judge in Salween.