'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1902-1903' [‎8v] (10/106)

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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
[1902-1903.
Great Trigono
metrical Survey.
Tidal operations.
Revenue Surveys
and Settlements,
Bombay Forest
Survey.
Land Records.
was arrested, but tbe customs revenues fell off slightly. The import trade of the
Kathidwar maritime States showed a small reduction, hut there was a further
large increase of ?! lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in the export trade.
6 . Operations in connection with the Great Trigonometrical Survey were
carried on by a party of the Survey of India in the Sind Districts of Sukkur,
Hyderabad and Karachi.
7. Automatic tidal observations were continued at the usual stations
throughout the year, except at the Perim and Porbandar observatories, which
were closed.
8 . The survey of four villages was carried out during the year in the
Dakhan. Kevised rates were introduced in two talukas of Kolaba and Broach
and in one taluka each of TlHna, Kanara and Batn^giri.
9. The party of the Survey of India at work in the 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. continued
its operations in the districts of Thana, Nasik, Ahmednagar, Khandesh, Satara
DhArwar, Belgaum and Eatnagiri.
10 . Pending the passing of the Record of Bights Bill the work of the
department'Jwas confined to the preparation of the Becord in three talukas of the
Khandesh District, where the work was pushed on under the special orders of tlm
Collector.
Occupied Land. 11. There was a decrease of more than 100,000 acres in the total area
under cultivation in the 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. and Sind. The decline noted in the two
preceding years in the occupied area in the Northern Division was arrested and
every district with the exception of Thana showed increases, the extension of
cultivation being most marked in Ahmedabad. A large contraction in Khan-
desh accounted for a decrease in the Central Division of more than 350 000
acres.. In the Southern Division there was little variation except in the Kolaba
District where there was a large increase, while the occupied area in Sind was
again enlarged.
management of Settlement Officer was m charge of 628 estates with a gross revenue demand
Government. of Rs. 12,50,000, of which Rs. 7,70,000 were realized. A special inquiry was
conducted during the year by Mr. Robertson into the condition of the
Ahmedabad Talukdars. There were 525 encumbered estates under the Manager
of Encumbered Estates in Sind: during the year Rs. 1,70,000 were spent°in
hqmdatfon of loans and private debts, and the year closed with a credit balance
OI Us. 1,28,911.
13 Two measures were passed by the Bombay Legislative Council and
assented to by His Excellency the Governor General; the one to amend
he Bombay Distnct Municipal Act of 1901 and the other to consolidate the
law .emrng to the Bombay City Police. At the close ol the year there were
six Bills pending.
it. Eiclmiye of. special fore* employed temporarily on plague and
famme duty the total strength of the Police in the 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. and Sind Xo^d
an increase of 169 men, fusing a corresponding increase in ihe cost of eTb
hshment. There was a slight improrement in the education of the itlts
generally. Ho appreciable variation occurred in the number of pumshmtto
inflicted except in the case of the Bombay City Polioe, where there „s a ri™
of nearly 10 per cent in departmental punishments. Crime, both cooni.b e
and non-cogmzable, showed a marked decrease on the whole ^
to the eirenmstane 0 , of the year, the improvement was not shared by iTaS
and Bind and crime mcreased in Bombay Ciiy and on the
Legislation,
Police.