Burma . i68 BURMA. 380. PALACE FRONT AND SPIRE. The British administrationpreserves the native officialmachinery, from the thadyt tothe myook, augmenting thenumbers so as to reach everypart of the area and curtail-ing the powers. Under nativeregime even thadyis might bedabaing. The new regime takesaccount of the village ludyhfor the sake of their moralinfluence; of late they havebeen invested with power tocompose differences up to smallamounts, and many of the more prominent are honorary magistrates. Independent spirit is on the increase ; the officials have to reckon with a new temper in the
Burma . i68 BURMA. 380. PALACE FRONT AND SPIRE. The British administrationpreserves the native officialmachinery, from the thadyt tothe myook, augmenting thenumbers so as to reach everypart of the area and curtail-ing the powers. Under nativeregime even thadyis might bedabaing. The new regime takesaccount of the village ludyhfor the sake of their moralinfluence; of late they havebeen invested with power tocompose differences up to smallamounts, and many of the more prominent are honorary magistrates. Independent spirit is on the increase ; the officials have to reckon with a new temper in the people. Nevertheless, in municipal matters the supineness and complaisance of the native members are calculated to stultify the position accorded to them. Road-making and sanita-tion do not arouse their interest, and the local excise, the matter they long to deal with, is excluded from their jurisdiction {cf. p. 157). The thadyi personally measures the fields, collects the land-tax and poll-tax from house to house,
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