IOR/V/10/282/2

Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1870-71.

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

• ‘CHAPTER I. JUDICIAL’ (ff 269-302), consisting of Section: I. Legislative; II. Civil Justice; III. Criminal Justice; IV. Police; V. Prisons; VI. Registration
• ‘CHAPTER II. REVENUE’ (ff 303-318), consisting of Section: I. Land Revenue; II. Local Funds; III. Revenue from sources other than land; IV. [Alienated Revenue]
• ‘CHAPTER III. FINANCIAL’ (ff 319-327), consisting of Section: I. Finance and Mint; II. Paper Currency
• ‘CHAPTER IV. POLITICAL’ (ff 328-366), consisting of Section: I. Political Relations with Native States; II. Foreign Relations
• ‘CHAPTER V. PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 367-371), consisting of Section: I. Military; II. Civil; III. Agricultural; IV. Communications; V. Miscellaneous Public Improvements
• ‘CHAPTER VI. RAILWAY’ (ff 372-376), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway; Sind; Indus Steam Flotilla
• ‘CHAPTER VII. ECCLESIASTICAL’ (f 377)
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 378-383)
• ‘CHAPTER IX. MEDICAL’ (ff 384-390), consisting of Section: I. Public Health and Sanitation; II. Hospitals and Dispensaries; III. Vaccination
• ‘CHAPTER X. MILITARY’ (ff 391-396)
• ‘CHAPTER XI. MUNICIPAL’ (ff 397-399), consisting of Section: I. Town and Island of Bombay; II. Mofussil Municipalities
• ‘CHAPTER XII. SURVEYS’ (ff 400-405), consisting of: the Revenue Survey Department; Bombay
• ‘CHAPTER XIII. FORESTS’ (ff 406-408)
• ‘CHAPTER XIV. COTTON’ (ff 409-413)
• ‘CHAPTER XV. THE POST’ (ff 414-416)
• ‘CHAPTER XVI. THE TELEGRAPH’ (ff 417-419), consisting of: Indo-European Telegraph Department – Mekran [Makran] Coast and Submarine Section
• ‘CHAPTER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 420-421).

There is an Introductory Summary to the report on folios 263-268. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 262. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion 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.

Folios 425-507 consist of appendices. There is an index to the appendices on folios 423-424, listing the appendices under the following headings and sub-headings:

• ‘II. – STATISTICS OF PROTECTION’ (ff 425v-480v), consisting of: A. – Civil Justice; B. – Criminal; C. – Police
• ‘III. – STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 481-484r), consisting of: A. – Public Works; B. – Railways; C. –Paper Currency
• ‘IV. – STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION’ (ff 484v-488)
• ‘V. – STATISTICS OF LIFE’, consisting of: A. – Public Health; B. – Vaccination (ff 489-491r)
• ‘VI. – MISCELLAENOUS’ (ff 491v-507), consisting of: Municipalities; Cotton; Local Funds; Indo-European Telegraph.

(Under the heading ‘I. – STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL GEOGRAPHY’, it is stated that that ‘None are available’).