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‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [257r] (61/192)
The record is made up of 1 item (95 folios). It was created in 1921. 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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1919-1920.]
COURSE OF LEGISLATION.
37
The Bombay Local Boards (Amendment) Act, 1919 (Bom. Y of 1919)
enabled local boards to pay the expenses incurred by a non-official member in
travelling on the business of the boards. There was no provision in the
Bombay Local Boards Act authorizing such payment which has become
necessary in view of the recently adopted policy of Government in appointing
non-official presidents of local boards and the consequent increase in the duties
and responsibilities of non-official members.
The two main objects of the Bombay Prevention of Gambling (Amend
ment) Act, 1919, Were —
( 1 ) to make it clear that betting offices, or, as they were popularly
known, bucket shops ” were within the purview of the Bombav
Prevention of Gambling Act, 1887, and ^
(2) to suppress betting in streets and other public places. It had
been brought to the notice of Government that a considerable
increase in the number of such betting offices had recently taken
place in Bombay and as such establishments facilitated unre
stricted betting and exercised in all respects a deleterious influence,
it was necessary to suppress them. As their suppression would
inevitably have led to an increase in street betting, it was
deemed advisable to declare the latter also illegal. The amend
ments to secure these two objects have been based on the
amendments made in the corresponding Bengal Act IY of 1913.
Chapter 111 .
PROTECTION.
3. Twelve bills were introduced in the Legislative Council during the Bins introduced,
period under report. The bills were as follows :—
(a) Bill No. Ill of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the Government
Occupants (Sind) Act, 1899).
(b) Bill No. IY of 1919 (a Bill to amend the law relating to the
duty payable on tobacco and to the import, transport, retail sale
and warehousing thereof in the City of Bombay).
(c) Bill No. Y of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the Local Boards
Act, 1884).
(d) Bill No. YI of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the Bombay District
Municipal Act, 1901).
(e) Bill No. YII of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the City of Bombay
Municipal Act, 1888).
(/) Bill No. YIII of 1919 (a Bill to amend the law relating to the
regulation of public conveyances).
{g) Bill No. IX of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the Bombay Preven
tion of Gambling Act, 1887).
(h) Bill No. X of 1919 (a Bill further to amend the City of Bombay
Police Act, 1902).
(i) Bill No. XI of 1919 (a Bill to provide for the constitution of
village panchayats).
(j) Bill No. I of 1920 (a Bill to amend the Bombay Disqualification
of Aliens Act, 1918).
(&) Bill No. II of 1920 (a Bill further to amend the Bombay Land
Eevenue Code, 1879).
(0 Bill No. Ill of 1920 (a Bill to amend the Bombay Cotton
Contracts Control (War Provisions) Act, 1919).
4* Bills Nos. Ill, Y and IX of 1919 have been mentioned under Acts
Passed as Acts Nos. Ill, Y and YI of 1919 respectively.
in ^ 1919 introduced in the Legislative Council by publication
ne Bombay Government Gazette on 22 nd May 1919, was read for the
oHVi q 6 an d referred to a Select Committee on the 7th July 1919. The report
th P Committee and the Bill as amended by them were published in
. 2 / Government Gazette on the 15th August 1919 but the second and
^ ^ rea dings had not been taken before the expiry of the period under report.
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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 1919-20. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1921.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 231-238).
PART II (ff 239-322) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 239-249), consisting of: I. North Gujarat; II. South Gujarat; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; IX. Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. – ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 250-256), consisting of: 1. Surveys; 2. Settlements; 3. Waste Lands; 4. Land Records; 5. Wards’ and other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
- ‘CHAPTER III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 256-269), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Police; 3. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 4. Chemical Analysis; 5. Criminal Justice; 6. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 7. Civil Justice; 8. Criminal Tribes; 9. Registration; 10. Local Board Administration; 11. Municipal Administration; 12. Rent Acts; 13. Indian Reforms Scheme; 14. Military (Indian Defence Force); 15. Marine
- ‘CHAPTER IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 270-304), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries; 7. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 8. Trade; 9. Public Works; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways
- ‘CHAPTER V. – FINANCIAL REVIEW.’ (ff 305-314), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1919-20; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Income Tax; 11. Local Funds
- ‘CHAPTER VI. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 314-318), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Epidemic Diseases; 5. The Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; 6. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 7. Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease], Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 318-320), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. – ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 321), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
- ‘CHAPTER IX. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 321-322), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationary; 3. Printing; 4. General Miscellaneous.
There is a map 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. on folio 229. The report also includes the following photographs:
- ‘RESIDENCY SCHOOL. Crater, Aden.’ (f 292)
- ‘POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE SHOLAPUR [Solapur].’ (f 243)
- ‘HOSTEL BUILDING FOR THE NORTHCOTE HIGH SCHOOL SHOLAPUR.’ (f 245)
- ‘BUNGALOW FOR THE SANITARY ENGINEER TO GOVERNMENT, YERAVDA [Yerwada or Yerawada]. (North West Elevation).’ (297).
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 230. 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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