Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 68, Issues 1 to 12 (1894)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 68, Issues 1 to 12

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 476. Some of the topics covered are: elections to the General Council; several orders approving elections to various temple management committees and one to a mosque committee; promulgation in French India of the law on espionage; list of journals in which legal announcements can be made; creation of a separate French Ministry of Colonies (it was earlier under the Ministry of Commerce); decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation; creation of a “Committee of Public Education in the Colonies” within the Ministry of Colonies; appointment of a commission to resolve a dispute between two Vaishnava sects regarding the functioning of a temple; ministerial letter encouraging governors to facilitate the reception of French citizens who want to settle in the colonies (the complaint being that France only has colonies of government functionaries and soldiers); promulgation of the decrees on the recruitment of colonial administrators, on military requisition and on ship mortgage; annulment of some deliberations of elected councils on contentious matters; rules relating to the collection of direct taxes; creation of a special office of commercial information (bureau de renseignements commerciaux) in the Directorate of Interior in Pondichéry; tariffs of all local taxes for 1895 etc. There are 51 pages of tables (pp. 1-51) after p. 322, which contain the list of customs duties on various items.