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22 each man had to do watch duty at the Chowdi by turns. Besides the City Kotwals Shibandis and the village Police, in large tOWIS Υ Kotwali establishments were organized for the detection and the punishment of crime, and we find that Kotwalls Were a P” pointed at Poona, Nasik, Pandharpur, Nagar, Satara, Wai, Ahmedabad, Burhanpur, Trimbak, and other towns. This Kotwali establishment had also the charge of the conservancy of the cities, and scavengers were provided and paid for by cesses levied from the householders. The appointments of scavengers were made at Poona, Nagar, Phandharpur, Nasik, and other places The Kotwals at Poona, Nagar, Pandharpur, Junnar, and Nasik had powers of Magistrates in miscellaneous cases, which, in the districts, were disposed of by the Kamavisdars. Conservancy. In the Miscellaneous Departments, Mints occupied an important Mints. place. I have treated the subject of the Mints under the Maratha rule in a seperate paper read before the Royal Asiatic Society. The Post Office did not occupy any Post recognized position under the Maratha rule. Special agencies were employed on particular occasions: when the armies went to Hindustan or to the Karnatic. These special agencies consisted of special Jasuds or Kassids i.e. runners, who apparently took 18 days to go to Delhi from Thaliner, and 13 days from Maheshwar, and they were paid handsomely, 3 Rs. a day, the amount being regulated inversely according to the number of days they took for the journey. When the Peish was had to correspond with Calcutta, they sent their Jasuds to Burhanpur, and thence these runners took on the post to Benares where an English officer, in charge of postal arrangements, dispatched the Pei-hwa's post to Calcutta. In the wars in the Karnatic, the Polish was found it necessary to organize special postal arrangements from Poona to Badami, and sixty men were employed to carry the daily post to and fro while the war lasted. Bevond these stray efforts, no regular State Postal Service for private or official use appears to have been maintained, and the private work was done hv the employees of Sawkars, who made these long jour Dy nies to Carրv it. tances, at stated intervals, and took the private pOst of those wh y remt correspond with their distant relations. O cared to As regards Medicine, the function of the Sta Medicine. of charitable relief w te in the distribution fact that Well-known 2S - beyond the ÁKlmS and Vaidvas Wel'C,