Excerpt from Reports From Committees, Vol. 26 of 32: East India, Lords' Third Report; Session 4 November, 1852-20 August, 1853 The defective and superficial acquaintance of the vahee s themselves with the regulations, their general inaptitude for the discharge of their duties, has long been the theme of complaint on the part of our servants under the Bengal Presidency, as well as by Colonel Leith, who was employed under your Government in framing the original code of aws and regulations, and who has, in his letter to the Chairman to the Court of Directors, of the 25th January 1808, of which we formerly transmitted you a copy, expressed his opinion on the subject of the vakeels, in terms which have particularly attracted our attention. There is, perhaps, ' he says, no part of the judicial system w ich has been attended with worse consequences than the Vakeel branch of it; they are in general extremely illiterate, and their situation gives theut various opportunities of committing abuses which are not easily detected; in particular, they have een accused of promoting litigation, by holding forth false promises of success to their clients; their habits of intercourse with the natives, and their being, in a manner, the only persons who are acquainted with the regulations, makes it easy for them to do so. I do not hesitate in saying, that one great cause of the litigation and delay in law-suits has arisen from the native pleaders.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.