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(3) Seven Korales and north part of Nuwarakalawiya. 
(4) Three Korales. 
(5) Tamankaduwa. 
(6) Kandy. 
(7) Four Korales. 
(8) Matale and east part of Nuwarakalawiya. 
(9) Harasiyapattu and Tumpane. 
(10) Hewaheta south of Maha-oya and Walapane. 
(11) Lower tJva and Wellassa. 
V. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Colebrooke, one of His Majesty's 
Commissioners of Inquiry on the Administration of the 
Government of Ceylon, in his report of December 24, 1831, 
to the Secretary of State, says : — 
" The Kandyan Provinces, which had bebn first acquired 
by the British Government in 1815, were settled on their 
present footing after the rebellion in 1818, and have been 
separately administered by the Governor, without the assist- 
ance of his Council. These Provinces were placed under 
the immediate superintendence of a Board of Commissioners, 
which Board is now composed of the Commandant of the 
Troops in Kandy and two Civil Servants, having charge 
respectively of the Judicial and Revenue Departments. The 
Kandyan territory is divided into eleven provinces or districts, 
of which five, situated above the hills around Kandy — (1) 
Udaratte, (2) Four Korales, (3) Matale and east part of 
Nuwarakalawa, (4) Harasipattoo and Tumpane, (5) Hewa- 
hette and Walapane — are placed under the immediate superin- 
tendence of the Board of Commissioners, to whom the 
Government Agents resident in those districts directly refer. 
The districts situated more remotely from Kandy, and below 
the hills, are also placed under Government Agents, who 
are intrusted with the same authority which is exercised 
by the Collectors in the Maritime Provinces. In one district 
(Seven Korales), a separate agent for part of the judicial 
affairs has been appointed, but the Government Agents in 
that and all the other districts are charged with the civil and 
judicial duties and with those of police. With the exception of 
