'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [272r] (127/150)
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19 10
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debt, remittances, ETC.—MINT.
87 Chap. V.
from
Rs. 8 , 30 , 581 . There is an increase of Rs. 14,326 due chieflv fr, n .
Z District Local Board on account of forest roadfin TUnz 7 t0 ^ reC ° Venes r,
Civil Works.
Rs. 74>53>3^®‘ There is an increase of Rs. Si 26 882 arrnnnf»a
21 ' nection with the water-works schemes at Biiannr NFq m rf J r'," gt^s-'n-aid Civil Works (Public
given--? the construction of bridteTat Khed S £ andh ^’ H-bli, Works Department,.
»«in the Nasik, Poona and Ahmednagar District? an^ a^’ to
r .s. *
pa tnb u
givil Buildings-
IV.— -Debt, Remittances, etc.
resp 1
The receipts and outgoings of the year amounted to Rs. 93 , 87 , 83,410 and Rs. 1,00 20 92 e,,
actively. ’ 0//
f 1) Unfunded Debt.
2 . The transaction under this head include the Forest Officers’, the Police Offi^pr‘; , anrl <s • r i
the General Provident Funds, the Life Assurance Branch of the BomLy UncoveL^fd S^rvTce Deposfs. Bank
Family Pension Fund, the Cemetery Endowment Fund and the Local Fund Pension Fund
and Civil Engineers Provident Fund. The credits amounted to Rs. 12 , 56,795 and the debits
to Rs. 3 , 7 1 >449*
( 2 ) Deposits and Advances.
The credits and debits respectively under the most important heads were as follows —
Deposits of Local Funds, Rs. 1 , 12 , 78,137 and Rs. 1 , 16 , 21 , 992 : Departmental and Judicial
Deposits, Rs. 3,34 99,425 and Rs. 3 , 24 , 62,007 : Advances, Rs. 3 , 10 , 91,619 and Rs. 3 , 14 , 47 , 00-3 •
Suspense Accounts, Rs. 3 . 15 , 86,374 and Rs. 3 , 17 , 33 , 982 : Imperial Advance and Loan
Accounts, Rs. 12 , 01,162 credits and no debits : Provincial Advance and Loan Accounts
Rs. 42 , 86,750 and Rs. 32 , 42 , 766 : Remittance account between England and India
^ 37,87,935 and Rs. 1 , 34 , 43 , 499 : Secretary of State's Bills, Rs. ? 5 , 59 , 3 2 ,i 32 and
Rs. 31 , 21 , 88 , 607 . ’ 0
2. Mint.
For details s*? tables under Mint and Coinage in Part IV {a) of the Statistics of British India.
I.
° f g ° ld C ? m tend 1 ered in ^change for
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
amounted to Rs. 10 , 95 , 29,127 Gold bullion.
Xring^he'year^oy the°Mint'.^ m PreVi ° US N ° remittanCeS Were dipped’t^’liido^
r, o' V e arn p. unt of uncurrent Government silver coin received for re-coinage was Silver bullion
into ni 5 ’k j „ lhe outturn value of silver bullion tendered by Exchange Banks for coinage
subsidiary 3 nil ° ^ ^r f’ rou g^ t . to account was Rs. 1 , 46 , 34 , 227 . Consignments of old
received ^ Stralts G ? vern - I ' en t of the outturn value of Rs. 1 , 01,010 were
20 m and J 11 t . 6 . onia Secretary, Singapore, and brought to account for re-coinage into
fiom shinm ^ Fu 6068 ’ -^ e ^l- ra ^ s Settlements Government also returned for re-mintage
aTOreratl er i 5 o e previous years and the year under report some new dumb coin of the
in 5 centn ^ 116 ° d ii> I 2 ,I 4>5 2 4 ip 2 o, 10 and 5 cent pieces. Of this amount Rs. 2 , 39,950
silver vy 068 a . nd j s ’ 7 , 54>574 j 11 10 cent pieces were brought to account during the year,
as received for rupee coinage from the Secretary of State during the year.
%hth rimp 6 - ^ 0 vernmen i : coinage for the year consisting of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, and half, quarter and Silver coinage,
^vernmein am0unted . to 10 , 785,082 pieces, valued at Rs. 81 , 17 , 860 , and was wholly on
sixty-four R j 0 ™ ^ Ve mddon three hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred and
an( l fifty-se 0 18 ?° ars were issued to Exchange Banks for export. Two million nine hundred
taou . sand eight hundred and thirty-three twenty-cent, 1 , 507,325 ten-cent and
^ e " cen t pieces were shipped to the Colonial Secretary, Singapore.
°i the silver k cro . res ^
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
were held during the year in the Bombay Mint on account Silver branch of
ranch of the gold standard reserve. ^ stan da r d
5 . p • . reserve.
s h u ok during- th mi ^° n tW ° ^. un . drec i thousand one-anna pieces.of the value of Rs. 25 , 12,500 Were Nickel coinage.
n ' c hel coinage 6 ^ ear ‘ the largest amount coined since the commencement of the
G- Th
ex P e nditure vva * 3 r* revenu c including pro formd receipts was Rs. 4 , 93 , 214 . The total Revenue and
as Rs. 9.' 2 4j 939> the year closing with a balance against the Mint of Rs. 4 , 31 , 725 . expenditure.
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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 1910-11.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 212-226). Part II (ff 227-283) comprises chapters I-IX.
PART II is divided into the following chapters, some of which are further divided into the following sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 227-235), consisting of: North Gujarat; South Gujarat; North Konkan, Nasik and Khandesh; South Konkan; Deccan; Kolhapur, Southern Maratha Country States and Dharwar; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 236-238), consisting of: Survey; Settlements Proper; Waste lands; Wards and other Estates under management of Government
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 239-245), consisting of: Legislative Authority; Course of Legislation; Police; Wild animals and venomous snakes; Chemical Analysis; Criminal Justice; Prisons – Civil and Criminal; Civil Justice; Registration; Local Boards’ Administration; Municipal Administration; Military (Volunteering); Marine; Cooperative Credit Societies
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 246-269), consisting of: Power Industries and Handicrafts; Agriculture; Weather and crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation; Railways; Tramways
- ‘CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 270-278), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Irrigation Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Sea Customs; Land Customs; Opium; Salt, Excise; Cotton Duties; Stamps; Income Tax; Forests; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS’ (ff 279-280), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration and Immigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination; Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 281-282), consisting of: General System of Public Instruction; Education; Literature and the Press; Literary Societies; Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 283), consisting of: Archaeological Survey Party of West India
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 283v), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Established Church of England; Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 211. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion 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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