Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 53rd year, issues 1 to 53 (1912)

Vol and Issue: 53rd year, issues 1 to 53

Missing issues: 2 (pp. 25-52) and 9 (pp. 197-224) (digitized from another copy and stored in the Missing pages subfolder).

Scope and content: Every issue contains an official and an unofficial part. The official part includes announcements and notices regarding meetings of the health board, post, taxes, competitive examinations for government jobs, balance sheet of the Pondichéry branch of the Indo-China bank, statements of revenue and expenditure of the government, results of elections (municipal, local), various tenders issued by the government, undeliverable or returned mail, applications received for setting-up of inconvenient/hazardous factories and commodo/incommodo investigations conducted prior to granting of approval, opening of court sessions, court holidays and dates/list of hearings, dates/ programmes of various examinations, distribution of prizes to students, list of new acquisitions of the public library, meteorological observations, auction by the government of seized or unused items or those obtained from vacant succession. The unofficial section contains information on lotteries for welfare purposes, departure of mail, municipal music, movement of ships and cargo in the Pondichéry and Karikal harbours, list of the passengers, reports on the execution of public works, legal and judicial announcements such as public auction of movable and immovable properties that have been seized by the court or are being sold by licitation, some commercial advertisements, list of new renonçants, obituaries, receptions etc. Many of the announcements are translated in Tamil.