§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether, without imposing undue labour upon the authorities in India, it would be possible to obtain a rough approximation of the proportion of the criminal work, original and appellate, disposed of by district and other magistrates in whose case revenue and magisterial functions are combined, and of the proportion of such work disposed of by 1333 magistrates who do not exercise revenue and otter administrative powers; and whether he will consider the desirability of obtaining such information, in view of the fact that a very small proportion of the criminal work is in fact disposed of by the European collector magistrates.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Money.) I will ask the Government of India whether they can supply the desired information without undue labour.