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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 4, p. 56.

56 THE INDIAN EMIPIRE [CHAP. exercised elsewhere by a District Judge are divided between a Divisional Judge, in charge of one or more Districts, and a local District Judge who discharges less important functions. In the Punjab and Lower Burma there are Chief Courts, con- sisting of several judges appointed by the Governor-General-in- Council, and approximating in their constitution and powers to the High Courts of the regulation Provinces. In Upper Burma, the Central Provinces, Oudh, and Sind the ordinary functions of a High Court are exercised by one or more officers styled Judicial Commissioners. The minor It remains to give a brief description of the character of the Provinces. administration in the minor Provinces which have not been included in the above account. The following is a list of these :- Thousands Thousands of of square miles. inhabitants. North-West Frontier Province . 1 6 2,125 British Baluchistan (British and Adminis- tered territory) . 46 308 Coorg .. .6 18I Ajmer-Merwara . 2.7 477 The Andaman and Nicobar Islands . 3 25 The first two Provinces are divided into Districts, administered by Deputy Commissioners as in the larger non-regulation Pro- vinces. The Agents to the Governor-General in Baluchistan and Rajputana, and the Resident in Mysore, are ex-offcio the Chief Commissioners of British Baluchistan, Ajmer-Merwara, and Coorg respectively. The Superintendent of the Penal Settlement of Port Blair is Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while Berar, formerly a separate Province under the charge of the Resident at Hyderabad, has since October, I903, been attached, for administrative purposes, to the Central Provinces. The North-West Frontier Province is administered on the lines of the parent Province of the Punjab. The Chief Commissioner is also Agent to the Governor-General for poli- tical relations with the frontier tribes, and is assisted by a small Secretariat. His principal officers are a Revenue and a Judicial Commissioner, who correspond, in a measure, with the Financial Commissioner and Chief Court of the Punjab. The various departments under the control of separate officials, such as the Inspector-General of Police and the Adminis- trative Medical Officer, are less in number than in a more