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§ 6. Appeals. 



The supreme ordinary appeal court is the Kot Singh, but those who are 

 dissatisfied with its decision can apply through the Ditha to the Malidrdja, 

 who in such cases directs the matter to be investigated in the Kosi 

 or Bhdraddr Sahhd, (Council of State), The result of this investigation 

 when completed is reported through the chief minister to the prince who 

 issues definitive orders on the case, which are usually such as the report 

 suggests. On such occasions, if the case should be a grave one, relating 

 to loss of caste, and such like, the Bh&raddrs are assisted by the DitJia 

 and JBichdris of the Kot Singh ; and, if need be, by the Dharmddhikdri 

 also. 



No one is at liberty to carry his plaint in the first instance to the 

 Sh^raddr Sahhd. 



The appeal from the local courts of the interior lies in the first 

 instance to the Kot Sino-h and thence to the Bhdraddr Sahhd in the man- 

 ner above described. But " the circumstance that in appeals from the 

 provinces the parties and witnesses must all repair to Kathmandu ; the 

 extreme difficulties of the way ; and lastly the impression naturally 

 produced by the known fact that the local court (in all those grave cases 

 wherein alone appeals might be resorted to) has already referred its 

 judgment for sanction to the supreme court, all conspire to render 

 appeals to the supreme tribunal very rare." 



The inhabitants of Duti, and those of Pdlpd and Sallidnah, (which 

 form two large provincial governments, always held by the first subjects 

 of the state with authority to nominate their own judicial functionaries) 

 must first appeal to the sudder courts of their provincial governors, and 

 revenue administrator respectively. In the mountains ^eastward of the 

 great valley and westward too, with the above exceptions, the people's first 

 appeal from their local courts is to the hiW Bichdris, their second to the 

 Ditha of Kathmandu. 



