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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [42r] (79/266)
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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PUBLIC WORKS RAILWAY.
[Bombay'}
depth of water, and composed of succeeding layers of mud, large boulders,
a sort of natural concrete, and rock. The bridge over this river had been
three years in progress, when it was completed in the year under report.
20. Much work had been done on the open line. Here many of
the smaller bridges having proved defective had been restored, and the
temporary station at Surat had been replaced. But it is reported that
additional goods’ sheds, cranes, weigh bridges, and sidings are wanting,
and that the watering arrangements are defective.
21. The expenditure on the Baroda line from the commencement
up to the 1st of May 1863 was £4,039,424, of which £2,354,103 was
expended in India, and was advanced by Government against payments made
in London, except £20,000 subscribed by Indian shareholders. This expen
diture is at the rate of £13,030 per mile on the whole line, of which 124f
miles are yet unopen and very incomplete, while the open portion still requires
large expenditure on numerous important works. The estimated cost per
mile for the whole railway when open throughout is about £15,000. The
net returns for capital actually expended were—
For half-year ending 30th June 1862.... £1-4-0 per-cent per annum.
For half-year ending 31st Dec. 1862... £2-11-1 per-cent per annum.
22. The total expenditure of the Railway during 1862 amounted
to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
3,54,370, being 50'15 per-cent of the total receipts, which
summed
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
7,06,722-7-9.
23. Change for the better had taken place in the traffic arrangements,
but the extension of the line to Ahmedabad had been attended with the
result of a diminution on the average weekly number of passengers, a
diminution to be ascribed to an increase of the third class fares. These
fares are now four instead of three pies a mile. While the mileage open
has increased 40 per-cent, the total number of passengers per mile has
decreased 18 per-cent. Meanwhile the goods traffic increased largely
by the extension of open rail. The weekly quantity carried per mile
rose from maunds 92‘60 to maunds 208'67, or 125 per-cent; the weekly
receipts per mile from
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
14 - 21 to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
45’30, or 218 , 8, per-cent.
The want of Feeders is much complained of.
THE SIND RAILWAY.
24. This railway had been worked in a satisfactory manner through
out the year, July and August excepted, when, as in 1861-62, heavy
Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India
Bailway.
The Sind Rail
way.
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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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