"تقرير عن إدارة رئاسة بومباي لسنة ١٨٨٨-١٨٨٩." [ظ‎‎٩] (٤٥٦/٢٥)

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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
[1888-89.
Sind :
Khairpnr.
Aden and the
Somili Coast,
The Great Tri
gonometrical
Survey.
administration of eleven years the State had made material progress, retired
daring the year. The season was not altogether favourable, but the public
health was good. The survey of the State approached completion. The Police
had less crime to deal with than in the preceding year ; but were much less suc
cessful both in securing convictions and in recovering stolen property. The State
was fairly free from serious crime. Civil litigation decreased. The financial
condition of the State improved; the deficit of the previous year being replaced
by a small surplus. Vaccination progressed satisfactorily, and medical relief
was dispensed at the various public institutions to much the same extent as in
the previous year. Education continued to make fair progress ; the number of
State and private schools increased, and in many of the former, the teaching
was highly efficient. The Technical school was doing well, though a large num
ber of the pupils deserted it on the imposition of a small fee. The local manufac
tures were prosperous and progressive. Gratifying evidence of the benefit which
the State has derived from long management by Government has been recorded
in observations summarised in the body of the Report, by the officer who after
an absence of twenty-four years returned toSavantvadi in the year under review
as the successor of Colonel Westropp.
His Highness Ali Murad KMn, Mir of Khairpur, was honoured by the
addition of two guns to his salute, and exchanged visits with His Excellency the
Governor at Bukkur on the occasion of the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge.
The administration of the State underwent no change during the year. It is
conducted after the rude and primitive methods of former days, and there is
a consequent absence of trustworthy statistics respecting it. There was a general
increase of crime, principally against property, during the year. The police
force is undisciplined, but, according to the statistics given, remarkably
efficient in the detection of offenders and the recovery of stolen property.
The administration of justice is summary. The State is in debt, but accurate
information respecting the finances is not available. Trade is hampered by
numerous and vexatious imposts. Medical relief and education are in a very
backward condition, but some trifling improvement in both was visible in the
year under review.
The area of the Settlement at Aden was enlarged during the year by the
purchase of five square miles of territory from the Akrabi Chief. Intercourse
with one of the neighbouring tribes which was guilty of a breach of faith was
ro en ofl ; but the relations with the majority of the Chiefs improved. There was
a shght increase m offences-chiefly under special laws-in the Settlement.
Ihe revenues of the municipality of Aden steadily improved, concurrently
wi i a marked growth of population. Owing to the spread of small-pox greater
attention was paid to vaccination. Education participated in the general
progress by which the year was marked. On the Somlli Coast the principal
n s o 0 year were the withdrawal, according to treaty, of the French
representative from Zaila, an unsuccessful attack by a neighbouring tribe on the
town of Berbera and a conflagration which reduced the latter town to ashes-
only however to be immediately re-built with remarkable improvements. The
P l r 0 f eSS, eSpeCia% in trade ’ Crime somewhat
ConT n’ v " 0 ,™ 8 a " 1DCreaSe ’ due t0 the establishment of regular
and the fire" at WaS °PP 0Sed ia P^ts of the protectorate
and the fire at Berbera destroyed the only school on the Coast.
Parties of the Great Trigonometrical Surrey of India were employed during
the year in Gujardt and the Southern Mardtha Country. The (Lardt party
surveyed topographically 1,077 square miles, and triangulated 1,460 square Sle! ,