Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 54, issues 1 to 12 (1880)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 54, issues 1 to 12

Missing pages: 636-637 (digitized from another copy and stored in the Missing pages subfolder).

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 739. Some of the topics covered are: several decisions regarding public education; organisation of the various offices within the Directorate of Interior; creation of a customs office at the Pondichéry railway station; appointment of mayors in French India and their assignments; detailed order on the creation of municipalities in French India (the territory was divided into 10 “communes”); nomination of municipal councils; promulgation in the colonies of the law on the press; regorganisation of the cipahis corps; changes to the organization of the judiciary in French India; rules relating to lepers and the leprosarium; ministerial circular encouraging the dispatch of specimens of seeds and plants from the colonies to the scientific establishments in France; Mr. Delafon given charge of collecting the mural inscriptions in the districts and villages of Pondichéry and undertaking archaeological excavations; promulgation of the presidential decree on the civil status of Indians; decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation; promulgation in French India of the 1856 decree on “expropriation for public utility”; opening of the Gondolpura road in Chandernagor; revision of electoral rolls etc.