Bulletin des actes administratifs des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 35, issues 202 to 213 (1862)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 35, issues 202 to 213

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 98. Some of the topics covered are: honours to be rendered to the governor by the courts during public ceremonies; arrangements to be made for the transport of the first coolies (i.e. unskilled labourers) recruited by the Emigration Society for the Reunion Islands; promulgation of imperial decrees relating to cabotage regulations in the colonies and the francization of ships built in America or Canada; detailed rules on the recruitment of Indian workers destined for the colonies, including a booklet that spells out their working conditions (“livret d'engagement”) and the undertaking that that they are made to sign; list of the medicines that are to be taken on the ships carrying emigrants. Other entries include: liquor and tobacco licences; decisions regarding the uniform of the Chandernagor police, the salaries of members of the Légion d'Honneur and decorated soldiers, land tax in the villages of Karikal; instructions on the application of the law on patents; pensions; duties on tobacco in Mahé; regulations for the exchange of correspondence between France, India, and Indochina etc.