Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 56th year, issues 1 to 52 (1915)

Vol and Issue: 56th year, issues 1 to 52

Missing pages: 953-960. Pp. 555-562 of the first part of the Journal Officiel 1915 are wrongly bound between pp. 952 and 961.

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, railways, taxes, competitive examinations for government jobs, 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, 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, balance sheet of the Pondichéry branch of the Indo-China bank, list of new acquisitions of the public library, 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, a table relating to land transfers etc. Many of the announcements are translated in Tamil.