Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 71, issues 1 to 12 (1897)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 71, issues 1 to 12

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 524. Some of the topics covered are: creation of a special service for postal money orders within the colony; fixing of the cadre and allowances of the tax department (service des contributions) in Pondichéry and Karikal; order prescribing sanitary and other measures to prevent the invasion of the bubonic plague (that has broken out in Bombay) into French India; several decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation; convening of elected councils; confirmation of the judgments of the local criminal courts (imprisonment, or banishment of the culprit from French Indian territory etc.); confirmation/rejection of judgments of civil courts on matters of caste and religion; some decisions relating to education (examinations, baccalauréat, scholarships, school holidays etc.); reorganization of the staff of colonial administrators; orders approving elections to temple and mosque management committees; letter from the British Ambassador thanking the French government for the steps taken to celebrate the silver jubilee of queen Victoria's ascension to the throne in French India; fixing of the rupee rate; deliberations of the General Council on taxes on tobacco, betel, stamp, rent; tariffs of all local taxes for 1898 etc.