Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 73, issues 1 to 12 (1899)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 73, issues 1 to 12

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 833. Some of the topics covered are: detailed rules and instructions for preventing the outbreak of contagious diseases in schools; extracts of deliberations of the General Council on taxes of tobacco, betel, toddy, cars and horses etc.; several decisions regarding liquor licences; orders on the production and sale of salt and the cultivation of tobacco and betel in French India; Hindus of Bengal dispensed from taking oath on the Ganges water and the “tulsi” leaf in court; tax department provided with a policing division (“brigade”) for preventing frauds; rules on the sale of 62000 kilos of peanuts coming from Senegal; internal rules for the correctional facilities in French India; internal rules of the Calve College; closure of the Colonial College, i.e.the government college providing secondary education; presidential decree modifying the electoral lists (removal of a separate list for renonçants) and instructions on electoral reforms; elections to all councils (general, local, municipal) and election of the senator; execution of the judgments of the local criminal courts; reorganization of Pondichéry's botanical garden; decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation; salaries and travel allowances; tariffs of all local taxes for 1900 etc.