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replied to by the government, and requests that the authorities will be kind enough to reply to them without keeping the petitioners long in suspense.
The same paper makes the following suggestions in the matter of village administration:- that in each village a school should be established under the management of competent school master on a salary of Rs.5 per mensem; that a post office should be opened in each village and, the village school master should be made also the post master on an additional salary of Rs. 2 1/2 and, lastly, that a cattle pound should be opened in each village and the village school master in-charge of it, he being allowed half the fees collected in the pound.
Native News Paper Reports, Vol. I (January to June) - 1902
Page 38, December 28th 1901, Honorary Village Munsifs
The Editor of A.G., of the 28th December (received 20th January 1902) thinks it a matter for congratulation that the Village Munsif of Kodur (Nellore district) has been enquiring into civil and criminal cases satisfactorily, and says that, if the government is prepared to get the work done by honorary village munsifs, he can conveniently work as an honorary village munsif one day a week. He recommends that honorary village munsifs should be appointed throughout the district.
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The A.G. of 28th December states that the avaricious land-lords lease out lands to the prejudice of the existing tenants just at a time when they are tilling their lands for a second crop, and questions, the Government of Madras does not care to know how the poor helpless tenants fare. When an English knowing man like himself, says the Editor, possessing a good knowledge of sircar affairs is duped and teased by the land-lords, it is easily conceivable how much more the poor, illiterate tenants suffer at their hands. He therefore requests the Government of Madras to pass the Tenancy Bill now under consideration into law without any delay and redress the grievances of the tenants.
