Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 63, issues 1 to 12 (1889)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 63, issues 1 to 12

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 730. Some of the topics covered are: reorganization of the police in Pondichéry; instructions from the metropolis on the application of the law on the conditional liberation (parole) of prisoners; several decisions on postal and parcel services, decisions on taxes and levies, including those on liquor, tobacco, betel etc.; distribution of liquor and salt licences; convening of elected councils; several decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation; organization of the public school for boys in Chandernagor; presidential decrees transferring the administration of the colonies to the Ministry of Commerce and defining the functions of the Under-Secretary of the Colonies (Sous-Secrétaire d'Etat des Colonies); some decisions related to the administration of a mosque; circular regarding the election of the “deputé” in French India (pp. 1-26, bound in between pages 688 and 689); promulgation of a law on recruitment in the army (pp. 1-53, bound between pages 828 and 829); delivery of electoral maps made compulsory in French India; presidential decree on the constitution of a corps of colonial police (commissariat colonial); tariffs of local taxes for 1890 etc.