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Remarks on the Annual Reports on Lunatic Asylums for 1907
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pp 779-811. Remarks of the Presidency and Provincial Governments on the annual reports on lunatic asylums within their jurisdiction, plus copy of the report on the Madras asylums.
Remarks on the Reports on Lunatic Asylums for 1909
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pp 421-49. Remarks received from the Presidency and Provincial Governments on the annual reports of Lunatic Asylums within their jurisdiction; plus copy report on the Madras Asylums for 1909.
Collection, through the Commanders of British Vessels, of a pilgrim tax proposed by the Turkish Government
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p 277. Government of India inform the Foreign Department of a notice placed in the Gazette of India announcing the agreement of the Government to the proposals of the Ottoman Board of Health to levy a tax on pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz, despite the objections registered by the Government.
Petition requesting amendment of the Native Passenger Ships and Steam Vessels Act (XII of 1870)
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pp 17-19. Petition received from Hajee Mahomed Seedick, and other ship-owners, requesting changes to Act XII of 1870, as it makes their shipping routes unprofitable and unable to compete with steamers, who are not bound by the restrictions on passenger space. Plus correspondence thereon from the ...
Communication regarding sanitary and quarantine measures for ships sailing between Indian and Red Sea ports
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pp 245-46. Secretary of State forwards copy communication from Dr E Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health, Constantinople, reporting on the measures taken by the Ottoman authorities to enact relevant sections of the Native Passenger Ships Act of 1870, and discussion of the proposal of ...