IOR/V/10/279/3

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 1864-65.

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

• ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 250-71), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Regulation Districts; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Court of Small Causes – Bombay [Mumbai]; Criminal Justice – High Court; Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts; Criminal Justice – Sind; Criminal Justice – Aden; Police; Jails. Appendices to this section, containing tables of offences, arrests and inquests, are included on folios 268-71
• ‘REVENUE’ (ff 272-75), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue
• ‘CUSTOMS’ (ff 276-81), consisting of: Customs, Salt, and Opium, Bombay; Sind; Aden
• ‘FINANCE’ (ff 282-83), consisting of: Finance; The Mint
• ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 284-321), consisting of: Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Kolhapoor [Kolhapur]; Southern Muratha [Maratha] Country; Sind; Aden
• ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 288-89), consisting of: Military – Fortifications; Military – Accommodation for Troops; Civil Buildings – Revenue; General; Ecclesiastical; Judicial; Educational; Public Improvements – Reclamations; Municipal; Marine; Agricultural; Communications; Miscellaneous Public Improvements
• ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 322-325)
• ‘MILITARY’ (ff 326-29)
• ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 330-38). Appendices to this section, containing tables of electrical tests, messages transmitted and other information, are included on folios 331-38
• ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 339-48), consisting of: Public Instruction; Middle Class Schools; Lower and Primary Schools (Vernacular). Appendices to this section, containing tables of budgets and donations, are included on folio 348
• ‘MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (ff 349-50)
• ‘SURVEYS’ (f 351), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical
• ‘FORESTS’ (ff 352-53)
• ‘EMIGRATION’ (f 354)
• ‘MILLS’ (ff 355-57).

Folios 358-76 contain a supplement to the report, containingadditional information for the ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ section with thefollowing sub-headings: Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway;The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla. Appendices, containing tables ofreceipts and rolling stock, are included at the end of each of the first twosub-headings.

A table of contents listing the headings andsub-headings of the report is on folio 249. In a small number of instancesthere are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between thetable of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading asit appears in the body of the report is included above. A table of contents forthe supplement is on folio 359.