"تقرير عن إدارة رئاسة بومباي لسنة ١٨٨١-١٨٨٢" [و‎‎٥‎٩] (٥٨٩/١٢٢)

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TRIBUTARY STATES.
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Chap. L
POLITICAL.
The payment of Rs. 34,900 on account of debt due to Go
vernment, referred to above, closes the account. The State is
now free from debt.
The census of 1881 returns the population as 58,040, which
is a remarkable decrease from the number 81,068 recorded in
1872 , and shows how severely the people must have suffered
from the famine.
1 548 births were reported and 956 deaths; the births are very
m uch in excess, and the deaths very much below the figures
of 1880-81. In the dispensary at Akalkot 8,911 patients were
treated at a cost of Rs. 2,037. There were 2,592 operations in
vaccination, of which 2,413 were successful.
There are 18 boys* schools and 1 girls* school with an average
attendance of 640 scholars; the cost was Rs. 4,604. It has been
decided to place these schools under the superintendence of the
Government Educational Department.
Akalkot,
Debt,
Census.
Vital.
Schools,
KOLHATUE.
Area, 2,778 square miles ; Population (1881), 800,189;
Revenue, Rs. 15,94,000.
The Chief is the son by adoption of Raja R4m who died at
Florence in 1870. He was being carefully educated for his high
position when attacked by an unfortunate malady, from which it
was long anxiously hoped that he w r ould eventually recover, but in
January 1882 a committee of medical officers pronounced the
malady to be incurable, and it then devolved upon Government
to make provision for the administration. In March 1882 it
was decided that the State shall be administered by a Regent
assisted by a Council of three, the Divan, the Chief Judge and the
Chief Revenue Officer. Public business will be carried on in
the name of His Highness the Raja and in accordance with the
traditions of the Kolhapur State, but new taxes will not be
imposed without the sanction of Government. The Chief of
Kagal, a feudatory of Kolhapur, was appointed Regent and. was
formally installed on the 16th March 1882 at a full Darbar in
presence of the Ranis, several Chiefs of the Southern Maratha
Country, and some of the high officers of State. The Political
Agent presented the Regent to the assembly and advised him to
promote the public interests and to serve His Highness t e
Maharaja with singleness of heart and honesty of purpose.
The administration had for some time been conducted by Rao
Bahadur M. W. Barve, but the persistent animosity with which he
was assailed by some of the Maratha papers and the charges
brought against him in petitions directed to Government were sue
that it was decided he should proceed criminally against his tra-
ducers. The defence relied upon certain papers and letters which
be jury declared to be forgeries, and the trials which weie grea y
prolonged finally ended in the conviction of several of t e e itors
y the High Court at Bombay.
There are several feudatories subordinate to the Kolhapur State,
o£ which four are important, The Chiefs of two of these States,