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The A.G. of the 8th June (received on 10th August), regrets to find the government paying no heed to the defects pointed out by the paper in the administration of Kodur village. It asks why a post office should not be opened in such a large village as Kodur and why a primary school should not be established for teaching both Telugu and English upto the 4th standard. Recommending that a road should be constructed to connect the village with Mandapam, Edur and other villages in the neighbourhood, it complains that the village magistrate and the karanam in the village are not competent men.
Page 324, June 15th 1901, Complaints against the Police
The A.G. of 15ih June (received 10th August), complains that when a report is made to the police of any crime committed, they do not take any steps to detect the offenders and bring them to justice. What is worse, they do not even enter the crimes in the crime register. The paper regrets to see that the government is ignorant of such a state of affairs.
The same paper complains that in the village of Kodur and other neighbouring villages, crimes are too frequently committed. There is none to check them or detect the offenders and punish them. In every village there is of course a watchman, but he hardly makes his appearance when necessary. The paper therefore requests the government to establish a petty police station in every village, appointing a village constable, able to read and write, so as to attend everyone of the police duties under the orders of a station house officer, on a pay of Rs. 4 or 5 per mensem.
Page 346, June 22nd 1901
The A.G. of the 22nd June, regrets to state that the Zamindari of Venkatagiri is not managed by a competent Diwan. As all important transactions in the Presidency are at present conducted in English, and all the heads of departments under government are Englishmen, one might expect that the Diwan of such large Estate as Venkatagiri should possess a good knowledge of English. But it is very surprising that the Raja had appointed as Diwan one utterly ignorant of that language. Why did not the government, the paper asks, inquire into this matter? It (government) does not care, perhaps for the good condition of such a large
