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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 337.

ADMINISTRATION 337 non-state land ro per cent., of its gross out-turn, and Rs. 2-8 per household is paid on taungya cultivation. The same rates prevail in the Thabeikkyin subdivision, as well as in M6ngmit (where in king Mindon's time land revenue was assessed at rJ per cent. of the gross out-turn on all lands) ; but in M6ngmit a sort of permanent settlement called yaza has been effected in the neighbourhood of the head-quarters, under which the cultivators pay a fixed sum on each plot of land, irrespective of the out-turn. The District has not yet been cadastrally surveyed or settled. The Ruby Mines Company pays an annual rent of 2 lakhs of rupees, plus 30 per cent. of the excess whereby the fees received from holders of ordinary licences exceed 2 lakhs, and. 3o per cent. on the net profits of the company. In 1903-4 the receipts of the Government from the company amounted to Rs. 2, r r,goo. The total collections of thathameda (at Rs. ro per household) amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 7,300, those of land revenue to Rs. r 7,ooo, and those of fishery revenue to Rs. 24,000, the aggregate revenue from all sources for. the District proper (excluding Mbngmit) being Rs. 3,90,000. The District fund had in 1903-4 an income of Rs. 49,300, ' the chief item of expenditure being public works (Rs. 34,8oo). No muni- cipalities have been constituted. The District Superintendent is the immediate head of the civil police. An Assistant Superintendent is in charge of the police in the M6ngrnit State. The sanctioned strength of the force is 3 inspectors, 5 head constables, 9 sergeants, and 173 constables. Two Kachin sergeants and 5 constables are also sanctioned for the Kodaung tract, and are directly under the civil officer, Kodaung. They form no part of the regular District police force. There are six police stations in the Dis- trict proper, and three in the M6ngmit State. The Ruby Mines Com- pany has three inspectors in its employ invested with police powers, whose duty it is to apprehend and prosecute persons engaged in illicit mining, or otherwise contravening the provisions of the Ruby Regula tion. The Ruby Mines military police battalion has its head-quarters at Mogok. It is under a commandant and an assistant commandant, and consists of 24 native officers, 79 non-commissioned officers, and 8or men, stationed at the several township head-quarters, and on the main road from Mogok to the Irrawaddy: A jail is under construction at Mogok. At present convicted prisoners are kept in the lock-up at that station, and, if sentenced to more than two months' imprisonment, are sent under military police escort to Mandalay. The lock-up has accommodation for about 40 prisoners. Education is in a decidedly backward state. There are no: Govern- ment schools, and none of the private institutions is at all advanced. In rgor the proportion of persons returned as able to read and write