ADMINISTRATION.

The Judicial Department includes the Supreme Court,
the Attorney-General’s Department, and the District Judges
of Colombo and Kandy.
The General or Miscellaneous Departments include the
Post and Telegraph Department, the Civil Medical Department,
 the Department of Public Instruction, the Police and
Prisons, the Harbour Departments, the Government Stores,
and the Government Printing Office.
Provincial Administration.
For purposes of general administration the Island is
livided into nine Provinces presided over by Government
Agents, who in addition to collecting the revenue are responsible
 for the good order of their Provinces, in which they
make frequent tours. They are in constant personal communication
 with the headmen and with the inhabitants, both
European and Native, whose wants and interests they bring
to the notice of Government, between which and the people
shrough their headmen they are the direct intermediaries.
The Provinces are, with two exceptions, subdivided into
Districts. Each Government Agent, in addition to his provinecial
 charge, has immediate charge of his home district (the
distriet in which his provineial capital is situated), the outdistricts
 being placed in charge of Assistant Government
Agents. The office of a Government or Assistant Government
 Agent is styled a Kachcheri.
The nine Provinces, and their population, are as follows :—
Province. Population * Province. Population.
925212 North-Western  ... 353,703
322,832 North-Central we 79,101
242109 Ova .. 191,925
WEA Aabaragamuwa «.. 321,262
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Western
Central
Northern
Southern
Eastern
Under the Government Agents and Assistant Agents, and
in charge of headmen’s divisions varying in size from that
of a small English county down to villages and hamlets, are
a vast number of Native Chiefs, or as they are usually styled
Headmen, of various grades. The superior chiefs receive
regular salaries from Government, but most of the minor
headmen are unpaid. But they are in the receipt of feesand
pecuniarv rewards for good service.

Local Self-Government.

The internal affairs of the three chief towns—Colombo,
the capital (population 151,691), Kandy (population 26,386).
and Galle (population 37,165)—are entrusted to Municipal