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purposes the district is sub-divided into tahsils in
upper India, and talugs in Madras and Bombay.
The number of these tahsils or talugs in each district
 varies with the size of the district, and ranges
from four to eight. An officer, styled the tahsildar
or talugdar, is appointed to the charge of each, and
is the deputy qf the collector or magistrate. For
civil judicial purposes there is more generally a
separate organization by which munsifs are attached
 to the sub-divisions. In Bengal, where the land
is held in larger holdings, the districts are not
divided into tahsils, but there are sub-divisions or
outposts, each under an assistant commissioner or
deputy collector.

With regard to the police, the general arrangement
 is, that the police force of each district is
placed under the control of a superintendent and a
staff of inspectors. The organization of the body is
left to the Police Department, while, in the matter of
preservation of order and repression of crime, the
district superintendent is directly subordinate to the
magistrate of the district.

The District Jail is usually in charge of a medical
 officer under the general responsibility of the
magistrate, and in this jail the prisoners undergoing
short sentences are confined ; those undergoing
more than two or three years’ imprisonment are
sent to the Central Jails, of which there are a cerfain
 number in each province, and the organization