IOR/V/10/279/2

Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency,providing a summary record of the main events and developments in eachdepartment of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1863-64.

The report is divided into the followingheadings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 151-60), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice (Mofussil); Court of Small Causes (Bombay [Mumbai]); Mofussil Small Cause Courts; Criminal Justice (Mofussil); High Court; Crime and Police (Mofussil); Crime and Police (City of Bombay); Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Jails
• ‘REVENUE’ (ff 161-73), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Customs, Salt, and Opium, Bombay. Appendices to this section, containing tables of revenues and returns, are included on folios 164-71
• ‘FINANCE’ (ff 174-76), consisting of: Finance; The Mint
• ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 177-80), consisting of: Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [Kachchh]; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Kolhapoor [Kolhapur] and the Southern Maratha Country; Sind; Aden; Zanzibar; Persian Gulf
• ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 181-89), consisting of: Military – Fortifications; Military – Accommodation for Troops; Military – Ordnance; General – Public Departments; General – Charitable Institutions; Ecclesiastical – Churches and Other Buildings; Public Improvements – Municipal – Water Supply; Marine – Harbour and Navigation; Agricultural – Irrigation Canals; Communications – Metalled Roads; Communications – Unmetalled Roads; Communications – River Improvements; Communications – Electric Telegraph
• ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 190-207), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla. Appendices to this section, containing tables of receipts, rolling stock and (in the case of the Indus Steam Flotilla) voyages, are included at the end of each sub-heading
• ‘MILITARY’ (ff 208-15)
• ‘MARINE’ (ff 216-22)
• ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT’ (ff 223-24)
• ‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 225-27)
• ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 228-36), consisting of: Public Instruction; Sind
• ‘MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 237)
• ‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (f 238)
• ‘AGRICULTURE’ (f 239)
• ‘SURVEYS’ (ff 240-43), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical. Appendices to this section, containing progress tables of surveys, are included on folios 241-43
• ‘FORESTS’ (ff 244-45)
• ‘EMIGRATION’ (f 246).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 149-50. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.