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feature φί inter-dependence and mutual co consisting of the eight chief ministers, including both civil and miliary functionaries. In the final arrangements adopted by Shivaji, there were two Sarnobats, or military members, one the Commander-in-chief of the Cavalry and the other of the Infantry. The Peishwa was the Prime Minister and executive head of the Concil. The Pant Amatya had the charge of the revenue and account departments; the Pant Sachiva or Soornis had the charge of all correspondence and record, and the Dabir or Sumant was minister in charge of foreign affairs. Another minister, the Mantri, was in charge of the house-hold and there were two purely civil functionaries, the Nyayadhisha, and Nyayashastri or Panditrao, who represented the judicial and ecclesiastical departments. None of these offices were hereditary, and there were frequent transfers fiom one office to another. The Peishwa's office, for instance, had been held by four difficrent families before it became hereditary in Balaji V ishvanath's line, after nearly a hundred years from its first creation. The offices of the Pratinidhi and the Sachiva and the Mantri, became hereditary after passing through three different families. The office of Commander-inChief became hereditary in the Dabhade famil y after it had been held by seven or eight chiefs, including Palkar, Gujar, Mohite, Ghorpade, Jadhav and other leaders. The same remark holds good of the other minor ministers. In the official order of precedence, the Peishwa was a Slinaller functionary than the Pant Pratinidhi, whose office was created by Rajaram at Jinji, and Pral had N. iraji was made the vice-gerent of the Raja. The fixed salary of the Pratinidhi was l3000 Hons, while for the Peishwa the salary was fixed at 13,000 Hons. The Mantri, Sachiva, and Senapati had 10,000 each, and the Nyayadhisha had 1000 Hons only The old Pant Amatya went over to Kolhapur, and the Satara Amatya or Rajadnya, occupied a comparatively subordinate place. All these officers had Saraljams besides, and special establishments. On the permanent establishments of these great departments, there were eight sets of officers, named Diwan, Mujumdar, Fadinis, Submis, Karkhannis, Chitnis, Jamdar, and Potnis. By extending the principle of this subordination, certain officers, called Darakdar, Diwan, Fadinis, Mujumdar, &c. were attached to every District and every large military Command. These subordinate officers were chosen by the central authority, and the commanders were required to have the work done by the hands of these men, whom they could not remove, and who prepared and submitted the final accounts to the central authority. The division of work was ERO "ged that the officers serve as checks on one another, and this introl was reruduced in the