Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 82nd year, issues 1 to 52 (1931)

Vol and Issue: 82nd year, issues 1 to 52

Scope and content: Issues 14, 22, 42 and 48bis have supplements 14bis, 22bis, 42bis and 48bis. Some of the topics covered are: budgets and accounts, several decisions regarding salaries, allowances, pensions, promotions of civil and military personnel; power of Governors with regard to the administration of justice; more instructions for the conduct of the population census; decisions relating to education (scholarships, examinations, curricula, degrees etc.); reorganization of the indigenous medical corps; reorganization of the School of Medicine in Pondichéry; promulgation of some commercial agreements signed by France with other countries; decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation and the State Council; competitions for government jobs; nominations, transfers, leaves, etc; reorganization of the port and harbour services and of the Tax Department; suppression of fraudulent practices in the commerce of butter and fabrication of margarine; approvals for the formation of various associations and the publication of some local journals; elections for general, local and municipal councils and for the Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture; prices of arrack, salt; various taxes on land, businesses, vehicles etc. This volume contains several tables relating to the ownership of lands in the French establishments in India. The tables were prepared by the Tax Department (which was responsible for surveying the land and updating the cadastre for collection of land tax) and were approved by the General Council. They were published under the heading “mutations d'office”, i.e. automatic land transfers and carried the following information: the name of the owner as recorded in the earlier cadastre, the name of the current owner, the surface area of the land, its number in the cadastre etc.