(1) Medemin [Footnote 107]Khan Medressesi, built in 1842, by a Persian architect, after the model of a Persian karavanserai of the first rank. On the right is a massive tower, somewhat loftier than the two-storied Medresse, but which, owing to the death of the builder, remains imperfect. This college has 130 cells, affording accommodation for 260 students; it enjoys a revenue of 12,000 Khivan Batman of wheat, and 5,000 Tilla (2,500_l_. sterling) in money. To give the reader an idea of this institution, I will state the manner in which this revenue is apportioned, in order to show the parties composing the _personnel_. [Footnote 107: Abbreviation of Mehemmed Emin.] {333} Batman. Tilla. 5 Akhond (professors) receive yearly 3,000 150 1 Iman 2,000 40 1 Muezzin (caller to prayers) 200 0 2 Servants 200 0 1 Barber 200 0 2 Muttewali, or inspectors, receive a tithe of the whole revenue; the residue is divided amongst the students, who form three classes: 1st class 60 4 2nd class 30 2 3rd class 15 1 (2) Allahkuli Khan Medressesi has 120 cells, and the yearly revenue of the pupils is fifty Batman and two Tilla (1_l_. sterling). (3) Kutlug Murad Inag Medressesi. Each cell produces fifty Batman and three Tilla. (4) Arab Khan Medressesi has only a few cells, but is richly endowed. (5) Shirgazi Khan Medressesi. These Medresse are the only edifices in the midst of the mud huts that deserve the name of houses. Their courts are for the most part kept clean, are planted with trees, or used as gardens. Of the subjects in which instruction is given we will speak hereafter, remarking only by the way, that the lectures themselves are delivered in the cells of the professors, to groups of scholars ranged together according to the degree of their intellectual capacity. {334} _Police_. In each quarter of the town there is a Mirab, [Footnote 108] responsible by day for the public order of his district, in case of any rioting, theft, or other crime. The charge of the city after sunset is entrusted to the four Pasheb (chief watchmen), who are bound to patrol the whole night before the gate of the citadel. Each of them has eight under-watchmen subject to his orders, who are at the same time public executioners. These, in all thirty-two in number, go about the city, and arrest everyone who shows himself in the streets half an hour after midnight. Their particular attention is directed to burglars, or to the heroes of the intrigues proscribed by the law: woe to those caught _in flagrante delicto!_