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Page 465, November 2nd 1901.
A pleader named Nayana Sastri writes to the A.G. of the 2nd November, complaining that the Stationary Sub Magistrate of Nellore is very short tempered and that he does not allow adjournments of cases when the pleaders or the parties request him, out of sheer necessity, to do so, while he most readily grants adjournments for the mere asking when the Police Inspector requires them.
Page 467
The A.G. of the 2nd November, speaking of illiterate village munsifs, in general, writes thus:—The government does not want educated village munsifs. It is just sufficient for the government if the revenue is regularly collected and if supplies are properly made to public servants, what matters it for the government if the civil and the criminal affairs in villages be mismanaged when the welfare of the public is the sole aim of it, it would never have appointed illiterate or dishonest men to any post.
A pleader T. Nayana Sastri, describing how the village munsif of Iskapalli (near Nellore) conducted himself before the sub magistrate Nellore, when criminally prosecuted, writes thus to A.G., of the 2nd November 1901:—“when the sub magistrate asked the village munsif to read and state what the date of the summons was, he confessed that he knew not how to read, and that he was quite ignorant of accounts too and being questioned if he had taken the trouble to know the date of the summons, he replied in the affirmative, but stated that afterwards forgot everything about it. How can such an illiterate village munsif, the correspondent asks, be expected to acquit himself well in trying civil and criminal cases? How can he settle the village affairs? Such village munsifs are a source alike of discredit to the government and of evil to the people. It is therefore desirable that the Collector as well as the Deputy Collector should take immediate steps to remove the said Munsif and appoint an educated man in his sted".
Page 483, November 9th, 1901
A.G., of the 9th November (received 25th November), states that the efficiency of the municipality and the comfort of the people can not be secured where the councillors are incompetent and indifferent and the citi
