Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 55th year, issues 1 to 52 (1914)

Vol and Issue: 55th year, issues 1 to 52

Scope and content: Every issue in the volume contains an official and an unofficial part. The official part includes announcements and notices regarding meetings of the health board, post, railways, 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 some elections, 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, extracts of minutes of Pondichéry's Appellate Court, 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 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, telegrams from the French News Agency Havas regarding developments in World War I, 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. This volume also contains a couple of tables relating to land transfers. Many of the announcements are translated in Tamil.