9. HOME SECRETARIAT 

            The Home Secretariat  created in 1885 the Judicial and Police secretariat were also combined with the Home Secretariat. In 1889 an important changes were brought out in  Home administration.  The Judicial and Police Secretariats were combined with Home Department. The Home   Department was incharged  the Judicial, Police, Medical, Postal & Jail Departments. All the records of this department are in Urdu. This department records were transferred to Archives in 1957.

The below mentioned table supplies the information about the  records of Home Secretariat

Sl.No.	Nature of the Documents	Periodicity	No. of Documents
1.	Adalat-ul-Aliya (High Court)	1873-1874A.D.	44
2	Adalat – i-Faujdari (Criminal Court)	1875-1883A.D.	8,894
3.	Adalat – i- Diwani (Civil Court)	1875-1883A.D	8,894
4.	Adalat-i Diwani –Khurd (Lower Civil Court)	1865-1818A.D	4,443
5.	Adalat_i_Diwani-Zila (District Civil Court)	1863-1889A.D.	10,638
6.	Dar-ul-Qaza (Office of the qazi)	1863-1880 A.D.	3,163
7.	Majlis –  i  -Murafa (Appellate tribunal)	1868-1888A.D	4,973
8.	Majlis-i - Qaziya - i- Urub (Court dealing with the cases of the Arabs)	1868-1888A.D	1,960
9.	Majlis- - Sahus (Court dealing with the case of  sahurkars)	1863-1886A.D.	34,340
10.	Mutafarriq Adalat (Court meant for miscellaneous cases)	1863-1886A.D	34,340
11.	Office of the Madar- ul- Maham (Prime Minister)	1871-1882AD	1,462
12.	Office of the Secretary to the (Prime Minister)	1865-1884A.D	4,788
13.	Police Administration, judicial, medical, postal, jails, judicial, medical, postal, jails, constitutional affairs , umoor -e- mazhabi, political, confidential etc. (These records were transferred to main Office from Secretariat recently)	1871-1949A.D	1,13,844
14.	Sadr Taluqa (First Taluqdars office)	1865-1873A.D.	1,726

    

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