'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66'.

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 1865-66. The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:. 'JUDICIAL' (ff 7-30), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Court of Small Causes; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails; 'REVENUE' (ff 31-42), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Income Tax; Customs, Salt and Opium; 'FINANCIAL' (ff 43-50), consisting of: Finance; Mint; Paper Currency; 'POLITICAL' (ff 51-58), consisting of: Political; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewankanta [Rewa Kanthar]; Khadeish; Surat; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Persian Gulf; 'PUBLIC WORKS' (ff 59-117), consisting of: Military Army; Ordance; Commissariat; Military Finance Offices; Civil Buildings; Public Improvements; 'PUBLIC WORKS – RAILWAY' (ff 118-134) consisting of: GIP [Great Indian Peninsular] Railway; BB and CI [Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian] Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Valley Survey; Indus Steam Flotilla; 'MILITARY' (ff 135-161); 'PENSIONERS' COLONY AT CHALLISGAUM [Chalisgaon]' (f 162); 'INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH' (ff 163-251). This section gives details on the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Musandam telegraph station. This section also has appendices: A (letter from Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid, Director in Chief of Indo-European Telegraph, and a report by Major Smith on the Island of Angaum [Hengam]); B (a report by Colonel Goldsmid of his journey through Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and Asia Minor [Turkey]); C (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid and reports by himself, Major Smith of the Royal Engineers, and Mr Johnstone, British Agent at Busrah [Basra], of the journey from Ispahan [Isfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] to survey the land for connecting the Persian [Iranian] and Mekran Coast land lines of the telegraph); and D (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid with enclosure proposing an alternative land line from Gwadur to join the main Persian line between Bushire [Bushehr] and Tehran); 'PUBLIC INSTRUCTION' (ff 252-258); 'MEDICAL' (ff 259-260); 'SURVEYS' (ff 261-265), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey; 'FORESTS' (ff 266-268); 'EMIGRATION' (f 269); 'MILLS' (ff 270-272); 'MUNICIPAL' (ff 273-275); 'ECCLESIASTICAL' (ff 276-277); 'COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT' (ff 278-279); 'POPULATION, SIND' (f 280); 'AGRICULTURE, SIND' (f 281); A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. There are two maps relating to surveys of the Indo-European Telegraph line.

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