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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1878-79’ [46r] (96/759)
The record is made up of 1 volume (436 folios). It was created in 1879. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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1878-79.] EEVENUE AND FINANCE, IxXV
wliicli irrigation was actually carried on and on which
Government had spent large sums, amounted to £33,192,
or a total outlay up to date of £807,774. The net reve
nue from these works was £37,966, or a return of 4'90
per cent on the capital expended. The total capital
outlay on works of this class in Gujarat and the Deccan
amounted to £1,279,733, and they yielded a net revenue
during 1877-78 of £10,288. The progress of irrigation in
these districts has been of late years highly satisfactory,
and the extension of the use of the facilities provided by
Government since the experience of the seasons of 1876
and 1877 has been most marked.
The total amount realized from customs duties was
£623,737, or less than last year by £41,805. The
general depression of trade during part of the season and
the exemption from duty of some articles of merchandise
largely imported into this
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
, seem to have been
the causes to which the falling off in this branch of the
revenue is attributable. The realizations on this account
at the Port of Bombay amounted to £584,738, showing
a decrease of £37,764* which was most apparent in the
import duty on cotton piece-goods, provisions and raw
silk. Export duties increased by £6,944 in consequence
of larger transactions in rice. The percentage of duty on
the aggregate value of private trade in merchandise was
2'75 in the case of imports, and ’OSO in the case of ex
ports. The amount of drawback paid was nearly equal
to the average of the previous quinquennium, and was
chiefly paid on transactions in cotton, piece-goods and
sugar. The duty realized at Kurrachee and the smaller
ports in Sind amounted to £29,187, or £3,304 less than in
1877-78. The land customs yielded a revenue of £4,021.
The operations at the Mint were abnormally large in
1877-78, and this year the amount of coinage executed
showed a decrease of £6,142,258. The number of tenders
increased, whilst the amount diminished. Out of about
£4,880,000 received, 42* per cent came from Europe, 23-
per cent was presented in the form of native silver
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Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. during the financial year 1878-79. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1879.
The report is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 9-53). Part II (ff 54-265) comprises chapters I-IX. Part III comprises ‘Statistical Returns’ pertaining to chapters I-VII and IX (ff 266-435).
Part II comprises the following:
- ‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL. Tributary States’ (ff 55-83), consisting of: Gujarát [Gujarat] States; Southern Gujarát; Marátha [Maratha] States; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh] State; Aden
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 84-114), consisting of: Civil Divisions; Surveys; and Settlements; Waste Lands; and Government Estates, Wards’ Estates
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 115-145), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 145-198), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forest; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation. Folio 151 comprises a table of graphs showing ‘Abnormal variations of the meteorological elements in 1878’
- ‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 199-236), consisting of: Imperial Revenue and Finance; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Sources of Imperial Revenue other than Land; Revenue and Finance other than Imperial
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 236-246), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Sanitation; Vaccination
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 247-261), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 262)
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 263-265), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-8. In a small number of instances, there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases, the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
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The report contains a table of contents listing headings and sub-headings.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 438; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: A printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-435.
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- 'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1878-79’
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