Journal officiel des Établissements français dans l'Inde. 84th year, issues 1 to 52 (1933)

Vol and Issue: 84th year, issues 1 to 52

Scope and content: Issues 3 and 50 have supplements 3bis and 50bis. 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. Most of the tables have their own pagination and are bound at different places in the volume: 95 pp. after p. 45; 56 pp. after p. 87; 32 pp. after p. 105; 74 pp. after p. 157; 20 pp. after p. 163; 98 pp. after p. 223; 80 pp. after p. 263; 66 pp. after p. 313; 33 pp. after p. 325; 108 pp. after p. 341; 55 pp. after p. 353; 78 pp. after p. 415; 100 pp. after p. 445; 70 pp. after p. 461; 110 pp. after p. 511; 110 pp. after p. 557 and 33 pp. after p. 621. Some of the other topics covered are: budgets and accounts; salaries, allowances, pensions, promotions etc. of government staff; promulgation of some commercial agreements signed between France and other countries; some decisions relating to air transport/navigation; classification of land in Mahé; several decisions relating to education (scholarships, examinations, curricula, degrees etc.); several decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation and the State Council; competitions for government jobs; nominations, transfers, leaves, etc; elections to some municipal councils; election/dissolution of temple/mosque management committees; order regulating the production, sale, usage, import, transport of arms and ammunitions; reorganization of the public works department in French India; approvals for the formation of various associations and the publication of some local journals; price of arrack etc.; various taxes on land, businesses, oil, port and navigation services, postal services etc.