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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1878-79’ [124v] (253/759)
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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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION B.EPOBT.
[ 1878 - 79 .
Chap- Ill-
PROTECTION.
140
Tribunals.
Cost and
receipts.
Criminal Justice.
A comparatively small proportion of tlie tribunals in 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.
administer exclusively criminal justice. It is, there
fore, advisable, before entering upon tbe special subject of this
section, to describe briefly the constitution, and to show the
financial working of the various classes of judicial officers that
exercise jurisdiction of all sorts, whether civil, criminal or revenue,
as given in detail in Statistical Table C (1) in Part III of this
Report.
The High Court consists of two divisions, Original and Appel-
late. Its full strength is one Chief Justice and seven Puisne
Judges. The
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.
, outside the City and Island of Bombay,
and exclusive of the Sadar Court in Sind, is divided into 21 judicial
Districts, with 25 officials, including Joint and Assistant Judges,
all exercising civil and criminal jurisdiction. The average area
of each District is 5,763 square miles, with a population of 716,144
souls. There are 134 District and first-class Magistrates, of whom
17 stipendiary and 4 honorary officials exercise criminal powers
only; 106 stipendiary and 2 unpaid Magistrates have revenue as
well as criminal powers, and 5 more exercise either revenue or
civil jurisdiction, or both, in addition to criminal.
One hundred and ninety-seven local and subordinate Magis
trates, of whom 24 are unpaid, exercise criminal jurisdiction only.
One unpaid subordinate Magistrate and 2.78 stipendiaries are
invested with revenue powers in addition to criminal. Twelve
other stipendiaries have criminal powers combined with either
civil or revenue jurisdiction, or both. The number of village
officers who have petty criminal powers is 20,189. The purely
civil tribunals are 114 in number, five of which are unpaid. There
are thus, in all, 647 tribunals (exclusive of village patels), exer
cising criminal jurisdiction either exclusively or in combination
with other judicial duties. There are also 114 exclusively civil
tribunals, or 761 in all. Thirty-six of these are unpaid.
As regards race, the returns show that of the 787 officials who
preside at the above tribunals, 649 are natives and 138 Europeans.
The latter consist of 92 covenanted, 25 uncovenanted, and 21
commissioned military officers.
The total cost of the tribunals of every class, together with
the income of each from stamp fees, is shown in the following
table
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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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