'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1905-1906'

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 1905-06. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1907. The report is divided into two parts. Part I contains a report 'SUMMARY' (ff 174-186). Part II comprises chapters I-IX (ff 187-235). PART II comprises the following:. 'CHAPTER I. TRIBUTARY STATES' (ff 187-194), consisting of: I. North Gujarát; II. South Gujarát; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhapur and Southern Mahratta Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; 'CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND' (ff 194-197), consisting of: 1. Realization of Land Revenue; 2. Surveys; 3. Settlements; 4. Waste Lands; 5. Wards and Other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes; 'CHAPTER III. PROTECTION' (ff 198-204), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Police; 3. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 4. Chemical Analysis; 5. Criminal Justice; 6. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 7. Civil Justice; 8. Registration; 9. Local Board Administration; 10. Municipal Administration; 11. Military (Volunteering); 12. Marine; 13. Co-operative Credit Societies; 'CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION' (ff 205-224), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Horticulture; 4. Forests; 5. Mines and Quarries; 6. Manufactures and Industries; 7. Trade; 8. Public Works; 9. Irrigation; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways; 'CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW' (ff 224-230), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1905-1906; 2. Mint; 3. Currency; 4. Land Revenue; 5. Irrigation Revenue; 6. Public Works Revenue; 7. Customs; 8. Opium; 9. Salt; 10. Excise; 11. Cotton Duties Act; 12. Stamps; 13. Income Tax; 14. Forests; 15. Local Funds; 16. Municipal Revenue; 'CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF' (ff 231-232), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 5. Sanitation; 6. Vaccination; 7. Veterinary; 'CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION' (ff 233-234), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences; 'CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY' (f 234); 'CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS' (f 112), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationery; 3. General Miscellaneous; A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 173. 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.

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