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people of the country, and where taxes are only levied
on this understanding. In India and many other
countries in the world the people have as yet to learn
much of the duties both of the ruler and the ruled.
The Government of India has set an example to
native states by granting in British India considerable
powers of taxation and self-government to the people
in all local matters. They are permitted to fix the
character and amount of the taxes to be paid in their
own districts and towns, and have a considerable
voice, through their representatives, in determining
the purposes for which this money is to be spent,

Provincial Services.

An arrangement was commenced in 1872, known
by the designation of “Provincial Services,” whereby
certain sums are allotted by the Government of India
to the several local governments in the empire, for
certain services, such as education, prisons, police,
roads, civil buildings, &c. The primary object of the
arrangement is this, that the various local governments
should have resources at their disposal for these purposes,
 of which resources the most and the best must
be made, and which may be supplemented by any
legitimate means that can be devised locally, on
the understanding that no further demand is to be
made upon the general treasury on these accounts,
Another object is, that a peremptory limit should be

* India in 1880, PD. 452.