Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 70th year, issues 1 to 52 (1919)

Vol and Issue: 70th year, issues 1 to 52

Scope and content: Issues 40, 44 and 49 have supplements 40bis, 44bis and 49bis. Some of the topics covered are: decisions on budgets and accounts, several decisions regarding salaries, allowances, promotions, pensions, leaves etc. of military personnel and families of martyred soldiers; prohibition on the export of certain products; promulgation of the laws on the wards of the state (i.e. adoption by the state of children orphaned during the war) and on life insurance in time of war; several decisions relating to education (degrees, scholarships, examinations, subsidies for private schools etc.); competitions for government jobs; nominations, transfers etc; several decisions relating to elections (legislative, senate and general, local, municipal councils, etc.) that had been suspended during the war; reorganization of the water subscription service in Pondichéry; decree on the procedures for appealing against final judgments rendered by the magistrates' courts; modifications in the civil code and code of commerce; promulgation of the law on the establishment of a War memorial in every commune; expropriation of land for public utility; tariffs of arrack, salt, stamps etc; various taxes on land, houses, businesses, vehicles, liquors etc.