Excerpt from Our Administration of India: Being a Complete Account of the Revenue and Collectorate Administration, in All Departments, With Special Reference to the Work and Duties of a District Officer in Bengal The Chief Executive Ofl'icer of a Bengal district is styled the District Officer or magistrate-collector. As Collector, he supervises the collection of the various branches of the revenue; as Magistrate, he exercises original, appellate, and revisional powers in criminal and quasi-criminal matters. SO far, the distinction is plain and easy to perceive. But there are certain departments of the administration, with respect to which the District Officer is styled Magistrate or Collector, as the case may be, in a more or less arbitrary manner. For instance, quoad the postal and telegraph administration, he is styled Magistrate, and, in the same capacity, he is the Head of the Police and Jail Departments, and Chairman of the Municipal Commissioners. Then, again, it is as Magistrate that he Supervises education, the collection of vital statistics, emigration, sanitation, and vaccination. These magis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.