HI 



r.CYI'T. 



_ fr, t ^^b tkT wish to he. 



^SToZSeh for the behavior f h. 

 and the omdeh to responsible to the 

 *ll that happen* in the village. 

 trvr* appoint.-! under the new 

 the village official! through- 



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Then) commissions abol- 

 m :i.:.7v that were pre- 

 714 omdehs and !/.: 

 it^M rn.lin me the latter ap- 



to the 



jajl .-;T. ns,- 



and to the Kgyptun public by refusing 

 uest of Ismail Pasha, the moribund 

 that he might come home to Egypt 

 toe* 



M. Ugrrllc. the Procurator-Oeneral, was dis- 

 ! trvh after twelve years of service in 

 of irreconcilable differences with 

 who desires to supplant the 

 code and rules of procedure and to re- 

 strict the functions of the parquet to those of a 

 public prosecutor. A native lawyer was ap- 

 pointed to the office and more summary forms 

 of procedure were introduced. Sir John Scott 

 formulated new regulations making the parauet 

 subject to the inspection of the committee of ju- 

 dicial surveillance, directing the tnudirs to in- 

 vestigate crimea, depriving the parquet of the 

 right to instruct the criminal tribunals and that 

 of prosecuting officials without orders from the 

 Ministry of Justice, and transferring to it all the 

 functions previously discharged by the jugca 



Ismail Hey Sabry, vice-pr- -id. -nt of the native 

 court of appeals, was appointed procurator-gen- 

 eral, and another native jurist, Zewar Bey, was 

 made advocate-general. The Legislative Coun- 

 cil after dosing it* session was for the second 

 UOM ordered to reassem i >!. in order that a meas- 

 ure for the rapid disposal of criminal cases 

 "pd. Other changes in the ad- 

 tbe criminal laws were impor- 

 under 



r tors under 

 the Interi ,r 



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lecalised. 

 ,,n of thi 



unt. Not only were the court* placed 



t ' .' 1. .' . .',-;. ' r> 



the new adviser to the Ministry of the Ii 



r;.".': ! 



5 the police adtnini^rai ion in all the prov- 

 he central police 



bureau in Cairo being 

 land the provincial police placed under 

 the mudirs. A ticket-oMeave system, like that 

 of England, has been adopted for Kgyptian 

 prisons. For juvenile offenders reformatories 

 have been established. The natives complained 

 that the *. ,ble administration of jus- 



Urn under the roiled codes, based upon the laws 

 end pnicrdure Accepted in France, Ital. 



: .: . 



fad. tm by the institution in 1801 of the ju- 

 jjnjjlpn of control having power to 

 eansuft and to procure the removal of judges of 

 *!! ****** . lribq> *l. d now Mill further by 

 1 retirement of the procurator-general 

 the suppression of ail indejn 

 ^^ittfjtt^cial ortler a! ting 



* P***cut*rs of crime and the 

 tntir power* to the provincial pre- 

 >m merely the task of support - 

 ,' ail. 

 arbitrarily ordain, 



with. .tit having to observe any of the laws :u!ir- 



,:u'tln- hln-rl v aihl honor of riti/u, 

 u |N'tr.inii to tlir mnofa Chamlu-r a larp' iium- 

 .laiiii<-l t In- j)rotrt-t ion of tlu 

 i.ul.lir law .f KiirojM- npiin-t tin- a.ljudi 

 l.y thr disorganize.! nativr lril>\inal> .f im>t KMIS 

 of real property an< I <>f offenses again-t police 

 regulations, whlVh un<l.-r the jn.licial n-f- 

 1875, guaranteed by treaty ami l>in<linu r till i-vi... 



18W t are subject to th. jui i-<li<Mi.i ..f tin- inixc.i 

 trilMinals. 'rhrraimr.! \silh tin- ini- 

 tin- mlmiiiM ration \\ith tin- course of ju- 

 tin- nativr tri Initials since prosecutions have been 

 transferred fnun iinleprinlent |.r.M-urat-! 

 the lian.l- of muilirs ami Milipn f ' 

 ferred to have cases dex'idexl according \ the 

 fixed principles of i 



the reform courts of mixed jurisdi.-tim:. 

 l-'.u'yi'tian committee was organ i/ed in l-'t.. 

 agitate in favor of a common re-.iuti..n <>r ihe 

 ffreat powers to guarantee the neutrality of 

 Egypt and the entire Nile basin, and thus afford 

 the" llriti-h (Jovernment an honorable ground 

 for the evaluation of Kgypt. which w 

 mittedly of in i strategic value to Kngland. The 

 >ue/ Canal, open in time of peace, but now at 

 the mercy of any event in war, should 1> 

 served as a highway of commerce by m ut 

 tion. The French merchants in K-\ pt j.eti- 

 tioned the French Chamber to record a protest 

 against the prohibition of all trade between 

 i;-\|it and the Soudan that has liecn main 

 since the British occupation, although th 

 danese try to get their produce into Ku r y|.t and 

 the Egyptians to circumvent the em !M !_- and 

 renew the long interrupted commercial 

 course with the Soudan. 



The Knglish administrators have desii 

 apply the reserves accumulated in the In 

 amounting to 4,230,000, to adminUtrair. 

 form-, public works, and the relief of tax 

 but this money belonged to the bondholders 

 under an international engagement which the 

 1-Veiich (iovernment refused to cancel. Forthe 

 relief of agricultural distress caused ly the -ud- 

 d'-n fall of *J."> per-ent. in the value of il 

 ton crop and the depression in the pn 

 sugar and cereals, the Government initiated a 

 general reassessment of tax values in accordance 

 with present rents in older to equalize the inci- 

 dence of the land tax. The new c 

 makes the large proprietors pay mop 

 lightens the burden resting upon the small land- 



The aggregate revenue of IM.ii 

 sterling fi-i.m ."i.4:;;.iKK) acres of culti\at.-d land 

 was not to I.,- increased nor the maximum rale 



5<f. an acre to be exceeded. The 

 tion of some of the taxes had been postj.oi 

 ai!c;oiiiit of the low price of cotton. Tli- ' 

 missi,,n of the I'uhlic Del>t was disposed at fir-t 

 to object to th< guarantee of :{A jMT-cent. inter- 

 est on 365.000 of liomls- for the Keneb-A.' 



Railway: tin i.omi. and the contract wer- 



taken by the lierlin Handelsgesellschaft. 



Council f.f MiniMer-. de<-id,-d to hring the U'akN 

 under the supervision of the Mini-try of l-\: 

 lv direr-ting the areourr- of tin-.- religion 

 charitable cndowmer audited ly that 



department. The Legislative Council, obj- 

 to such intervention in .Mohammedan matters, 

 proposed that the committee of Wakfs .should 



