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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [15v] (26/266)
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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[ Bombay']
JUDICIAL.
Jails-
69. It is necessary to bear in mind that the year 1862 was more
unhealthy than the year 1861. This is the reason why in the first-mentioned
year, with a smaller average strength, the deaths amounted to 221 against
204, the number of deaths that occurred in 1861. Local causes for the
difference were, as a rule, non-existent. The “ conservancy and general
sanitary arrangements of all the jails have been, as fai as practicable,
placed on an improved system; ventilation has received every attention,
bad drains, cesspools, and other similar sources of unhealthiness, have
been uprooted and destroyed; charcoal has been liberally introduced into
the hospitals and sleeping wards.” # * * “ In some jails, as Surat and^
Tanna, these reforms have been delayed from the extreme difficulty of
carrying them out with any satisfaction; in the former instance, without
abandoning the jail, at least, for a time, and eradicating its intricate and
offensive drains.”
70. Among the projects of criminal police or prison law that have
occupied the attention of the Council of the Governor of Bombay during the
past official year are particularly notable No. 15 in Appendix C, which ^as
meant to declare in what offences “ peremptory challenge” should be allowed.
No. 23 which resulted in what is popularly known as the Cotton Frauds Bill,
and No. 14 which sought to entrust landholders with the charge of the
police within their respective lands. No. XVIII., for the regulation of
reformatory schools, was intended to replace and improve upon a former Act
passed by the Council, but not assented to by the Governor General. The
reasons for the veto are given in the Appendix. One of them is of
sufficient permanent interest to be reproduced here. It is taken fiom a
letter of the Law Commissioners, by whom the preparation of the Indian
Penal Code was originally undertaken :—
“ It appears to us also highly desirable, that if the Code shall be
adopted all those penal laws which the Indian legislature may from time
to time find it necessary to pass should be framed in such a manner as
to fit into the Code. Their language ought to be that of the Code.
No word ought to be used in any other sense than that in which it is
used in the^Code. The very part of the Code in which the new law
is to be inserted ought to be indicated. If the new law rescinds or
modifies any provision of the Code, that provision ought to be indicat
ed. In fact, the new law ought, from the day on which it is passed,
to be part of the Code, and to affect all other provisions of the Code,
and to be affected by them, as if it were actually a clause of the original
Code. In the next Edition of the Code the new law ought to appear
in its proper place.”
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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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