Bulletin officiel des Établissements français de l'Inde. Vol. 65, issues 1 to 12 (1891)

Vol and Issue: Vol. 65, issues 1 to 12

Scope and content: This volume contains notification nos. 1 to 431. Some of the topics covered are: decision on creating census divisions in Pondichéry for carrying out the decennial census; ministerial letter regarding publication of the situation of the colony in the French gazette (Journal officiel de la République); mode of recruitment of teachers in primary schools and other decisions relating to education; promulgation in French India of the law on aggravation and mitigation of punishments; extracts of the deliberations of the General Council on various taxes and levies including a tax on opium; naming of administrators to some temples and setting up of a committee to devise rules on the mode of choosing administrators of temples; several decisions of the Council of Administrative Litigation and some decisions of the Final French Appeals Court (Cour de Cassation) repealing judgments given by the courts in Yanaon; order regulating the height of the telephone lines in Pondichéry and the height of the chariots used in religious processions; promulgation of the law on imprisonment for debt (“contrainte par corps”); decisions on postal and parcel services; salaries, allowances, leaves of government staff; convening of elected councils, nominations etc.