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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [‎276r] (530/541)

The record is made up of 1 item (278 folios). It was created in 1865-1866. 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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ECCLESIASTICAL.
EXTRACTS FROM A REPORT BY THE LORD
BISHOP OF BOMBAY, dated 30th APRIL 1866.
Clergy.
Total licensed at this time—fifty-five.
2. I am happy to state that the complement of Chaplains
and of Junior Chaplains is at present full, there beino' now on
the list eleven of the former and nineteen of the latter. Four,
however, are absent on furlough or on sick leave; the number
therefore upon duty is twenty-six. This is rather a larger
proportion than I have generally been able to record as on
actual service, and consequently there is no one of the recog
nised stations which is not the residence of a Chaplain, with
the exception of Sholapoor, and this appointment will, I hope,
in a few weeks be occupied. At the same time I think it
right to observe that owing to the great increase of Euro
peans in Bombay and in Poona I cannot regard either of those
places as duly served without another Chaplain.
3. In addition to the Clergy on the Ecclesiastical Es
tablishment there are also four provided from other sources
for the benefit of Europeans—the Master of the Byculla
Schools, the Minister of Kotree, the Curate of Saint Peter’s,
Mazagon, and the Chaplain of the Harbour. Three of these
have arrived during the past year. And I may add as a fact
of much interest in its bearing on our means of ministering
to Europeans, that of twenty Missionary Clergymen holding
licences in this diocese, sixteen officiate more or less frequently
to English congregations.
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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 1865-66.

The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

  • ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 7-30), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Court of Small Causes; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
  • ‘REVENUE’ (ff 31-42), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Income Tax; Customs, Salt and Opium
  • ‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 43-50), consisting of: Finance; Mint; Paper Currency
  • ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 51-58), consisting of: Political; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewankanta [Rewa Kanthar]; Khadeish; Surat; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 59-117), consisting of: Military Army; Ordance; Commissariat; Military Finance Offices; Civil Buildings; Public Improvements
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS – RAILWAY’ (ff 118-134) consisting of: GIP [Great Indian Peninsular] Railway; BB and CI [Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian] Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Valley Survey; Indus Steam Flotilla
  • ‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-161)
  • ‘PENSIONERS’ COLONY AT CHALLISGAUM [Chalisgaon]’ (f 162)
  • ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 163-251). This section gives details on the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Musandam telegraph station. This section also has appendices: A (letter from Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid, Director in Chief of Indo-European Telegraph, and a report by Major Smith on the Island of Angaum [Hengam]); B (a report by Colonel Goldsmid of his journey through Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. [Ottoman Iraq] and Asia Minor [Turkey]); C (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid and reports by himself, Major Smith of the Royal Engineers, and Mr Johnstone, British Agent at Busrah [Basra], of the journey from Ispahan [Isfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] to survey the land for connecting the Persian [Iranian] and Mekran Coast land lines of the telegraph); and D (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid with enclosure proposing an alternative land line from Gwadur to join the main Persian line between Bushire [Bushehr] and Tehran).
  • ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 252-258)
  • ‘MEDICAL’ (ff 259-260)
  • ‘SURVEYS’ (ff 261-265), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey
  • ‘FORESTS’ (ff 266-268)
  • ‘EMIGRATION’ (f 269)
  • ‘MILLS’ (ff 270-272)
  • ‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 273-275)
  • ‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 276-277)
  • ‘COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 278-279)
  • ‘POPULATION, SIND’ (f 280)
  • ‘AGRICULTURE, SIND’ (f 281).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. There are two maps relating to surveys of the Indo-European Telegraph line.

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