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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [11r] (17/266)
The record is made up of 1 item (144 folios). It was created in 29 Aug 1863-27 Jul 1865. 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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ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
28. From the tables (which, however, are more fragmentary and
scanty than those of the Civil Courts) and,from the occasional remarks made
by the Session Judges in their reports, it may be gathered that one effect of
the new Penal Code has been to increase the number of cases that come into
the Couits of Sessions. In Ahmedabad, where tne number of committed
offenders was this year 240, the increase over last year was 43; in Canara
the increase was 21 out of 68. In Dharwar and Sholapore increase also is
reported. In the Konkun the number of committals in 1862-63 was 268
against 250 in 1861-62, while the convictions were 132 to 118. It is the
opinion of the Session Judge at Ahmedabad that the increase is due
to the confinement by the Penal Code of the powers of the Magistrate.
Offences that formerly a magistrate was competent to try must now go up
to the sessions. The Session Judge of Sholapore while alleging this cause
aUo finds additional causes, the recent abolition of corporal punishment,
and the increasing comforts of jail life; but he thinks that the present
comforts of jail life may be modified wdien a system of proper out-door hard
labour has been thoroughly carried out.
29. Capital sentences in Ahmedabad w r ere 9 or 8 in excess of those in
1861. There were four cases of dacoity attended with murder, and three
cases of boundary disputes which resulted in murder. Such disputes are of
frequent occurrence in this zillah, where no adequate settlement of boundaries
has yet been made. In Dharwar, the judicial district of which name
possesses an area of 11,059 square miles, and a jjopulation of 1,806,374 per
sons, during 1862-63 there were three cases of dacoity and 18 cases of
murder. In Khandeish there was only one case of murder (with unlawful
assemblage). In Sholapore there were three cases of dacoity, one cause of
which is supposed to have been the famine prices of grain during the year:
six persons were accused of culpable homicide.
30. In Sholapore there were seven cases of offence concerning marriages
under Sections 494 and 495, Cap. XX. of the Penal Code, the Judge
remarking that “ the provisions of this chapter are doubtless very unpopular
throughout the country.” In Tanna the number of offences relating to
marriage was eight. In Ahmedabad nineteen prisoners out of 240 were
under trial at the end of the year; in Canara 17 out of 68.
31. Acquittals in the Ahmedabad Division number 94 out of 240
commitments; in Canara 17 out of 68 ; in Sholapore 73 out of 151 ? and
in the Konkun Division 32 out of 268. Of particular cases that draw forth
remarks from Judges may be instanced some at Sholapore, in which three
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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 1862-63.
The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-15), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
- ‘FINANCE AND REVENUE’ (ff 16-25), consisting of: Finance; The Mint; Revenue; Cash Alienations; Land Alienations; Sayer (Income Tax, Stamps, &c.); Customs; Imports; Import Revenue; Export Revenue; Frontier Duties; General Trade; Opium; Salt Excise; Financial and Commercial Legislation
- ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 26-35), consisting of: Sattara [Satara]; Kolhapore [Kolhapur]; The Southern Maratha Country; Cutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Aden; Savanoor [Savanur]; Surat; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Edur [Idar]; Cambay [Khambhat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Sind [Sindh]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Junjeera [Janjira]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Sattara; Bombay [Mumbai] Harbour Defences; Belgaum and Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Poona [Pune] Districts; The Civil Architect; Dharwar [Dharwad]; Ahmedabad and Kaira [Kheda]; Northern Concan [Konkan]; Mhow; Poona Cantonment; Kirkee [Khadki] Cantonment; Nassick [Nashik] Districts; Agra Road, Beaora [Biaora] Division; The Garrison and Dockyard Engineer, Bombay; Agra Road, Mhow Division; Sholapore [Solapur]; Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar]; Surat and Broach [Bharuch]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 40-43), consisting of: Railway Operations; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla
- ‘MILITARY DEPARTMENT’ (f 44), consisting of: Military Department; Marine Department
- ‘EDUCATION’ (ff 45-46)
- ‘THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 47)
- ‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (ff 48-50), consisting of: Bombay; Revenue Survey
- ‘FORESTS’ (f 51)
- ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 52).
The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the ‘JUDICIAL’ section of the report. Appendices A and B (f 53) contain lists of Acts passed, respectively, by the Government of India and 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. . Appendix C (ff 53-64) contains a list of bills under consideration by 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. . Appendix D (ff 65-146) consists of a detailed report on jails by the Inspector-General of Prisons. Appendix D is dated 29 August 1863 and contains an inserted sheet of corrections (f 66) dated 27 July 1865. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing 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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