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APPENDIX TO JUDICIAL REPORT.
The over-crowded state of the Bombay Graveyards, the ever increasing population,
and the existing arrangements for disposing of the dead, are well known, and a remedy
is urgently required for a very great and pressing evil. Thousands of persons die
annually on the Island whose bodies are interred, burnt, or exposed in situations
directly to windward of the most crowded parts of the Native Town.
The accompanying Bill proposes to give power to the Governor in Council to
regulate the opening of New Burial Grounds or places for the disposal of the dead, and
to close any Burial Ground or places hitherto used for the disposal of the dead within
the Town and Suburbs of Bombay which may be considered obnoxious to the Public
Health or Public Decency.
The Bill is framed upon the model of the Statute 16 and 17 Victoria C. 134, “ An
Act to amend the laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in England beyond the limits
of the Metropolis, and to amend the Act concerning the Burial of the Dead in the Metro
polis.”
This Bill was introduced, but afterwards withdrawn.
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(20) A Bill for the Regulation of Public Conveyances in the Toum, Island, and Harbour
of Bombay.
On the 20th September 1861, Mr. Erskine, the Legislative Councillor at Calcutta
for Bombay, forwarded a copy of the amended Bill for “ Regulating Public Conveyances
in Cities and Towns in British India,” and requested to be informed whether the Bill, or
some modification of it, would be acceptable in Bombay, and meet the wants of
Kurrachee.
Inquiries were addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, and the Com
missioner in Sind ; in reply to which, Mr. Crawford, the Police Commissioner, reported
that he considered the proposed Bill to be a very good one, and well calculated to secure
the object in view, as far as the public carriages referred to are concerned ; but he pointed
out that there are now about six thousand bullock carts used in the Town of Bombay for
the carriage of goods only, and that more than half of these are let out on hire. He also
pointed out that Act No. IV. of 1841, which it is proposed to repeal by the present Bill,
provides also for the regulation of conveyances used for the carriage of passengers and goods
to and from the shipping in the Harbour. For the regulation of these two classes of
conveyances (bullock carts and boats; no provision had been made in the proposed Bill.
He considered that all these conveyances should be brought under proper control, and
that unless some law were passed, the public would be subjected to much inconvenience
and extortion.
The Commissioner in Sind expressed an opinion that the Bill might with advantage
be extended to Kurrachee.
A Bill was accordingly framed by the Police Commissioner from the Calcutta Act
with the alterations and additions proposed by him. It was forwarded for opinion to the
present Commissioner in Sind, who has replied that the Act appears in the main well-
suited to the requirements of Kurrachee.
The present Bill has been taken mostly from the one submitted by the Commis
sioner of Police, but many of the improvements introduced into the Calcutta Bill as
amended by the Select Committee have been adopted in this.
This Bill was passed as Act No. VI. of 1863.
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