174 APPOINTING NATIVE OFFICERS. 



at night by one or two sentinels, armed with spears, 

 stationed at the gate. Each kapalla kampong is 

 responsible for the good behaviour of his kampong 

 to his next superior officer or loora of the district, 

 to whom he makes his reports, and from whom he 

 receives his orders, and who has four or five more 

 kampongs under his superintendence, as the case 

 may be. From him the chain of subordination pro- 

 ceeds regularly up to the Regent, each officer being 

 answerable for the district placed under him. All 

 these native officers are appointed by the Governor 

 in Council, the Residents not having the power of 

 appointing any one above the degree of the head of 

 a kampong or a native constable. When an office 

 is vacant, however, the candidates send in written 

 applications for it to the Resident of the district, who 

 appends his own notes and recommendations to 

 them, before he transmits them to the general go- 

 vernment. The kapalla kampong is most commonly 

 elected by the inhabitants of the kampong. When 

 a village is composed of only one kampong, it is 

 called a dasar ; but when of more than one, it is 

 commonly termed cota or town. Each Regency has 

 also its panghulu or head priest, and its Head 

 Jacksa and Jacksa, who have the management of the 

 native police, and act as procurators-fiscal. There is 

 also a native collector and sub-collector of revenue. 

 The Regent makes his reports to, and receives 

 orders from the Resident of the district only, and no 

 inferior European authority has any legal power to 



