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government being forced by their bravery, as well as by foreign 

 influence, to grant their demands. 



The Servian is hajDpy because he is free from Turkish exac- 

 tions, and has little money to pay to his government ; each 

 married man being only obliged to contribute thirty francs 

 annually. The whole amount of this tax, however, is not 

 collected from each person ; but the chief magistrates of the 

 districts, who are well acquainted with the different circum- 

 stances of the people, tax them more or less according to their 

 property, until the average sum of thirty francs is made up. 

 All this, as well as the paying in of the money to government, 

 is eiFected almost without any of those expenses which would 

 be incurred in other countries. Servia is divided into seventeen 

 Isprabnikats, and each Isprabnik or Burgomaster has two or 

 four counsellors, a secretary with two or three assistants, and 

 some young men who are commencing their studies in the civil 

 department. They have a kind of criminal code, but no civil 

 or commercial one ; nor are there any laws applying to the 

 forests ; nor have they as yet made any arrangements for the 

 registration of mortgages. There are no advocates in Servia. 

 Testaments are either written out, or sometimes merely verbal 

 directions are given. They have no large prisons. At Bel- 

 grade the merchants have formed a kind of corporation, which 

 gives decisions in commercial cases. The number of military 

 on service is extremely small ; but each person is obliged to 

 serve in his turn. The array has three generals, two of whom 

 are brothers of Prince IVIilosch ; and the third. General Dani- 

 lovitsch, has charge of the troops at present. There are five 

 Polkovnike or colonels ; of whom three are commandants, or 

 somewhat higher in rank. Under them are the superior cap- 

 tains of the district, and, under these, the captains of the 

 parishes. Each colonel has from three to seven superior cap- 

 tains under him. There are barracks at Belgrade, and also at 

 Kragojevatz, where there is a military hospital under the direc- 

 tion of medical men from Hungary and Servia. The whole 

 Servian force, when called out, may amount, it is said, to 

 60,000 men ; and it would be easy for the government to as- 

 semble some thousands at any spot in a few days. The police 

 is strict : passports are demanded ; and the different parishes 



