Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergUniversitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Metadaten

Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission upon Decentralization in Bengal of witnesses serving directly under the Government of India, volume 10 — [London?]: [House of Commons?], 1908

DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68026#0207
Overview
Facsimile
0.5
1 cm
facsimile
Scroll
OCR fulltext
201

APPENDIX IL/.

Statement of Returns dealt with in the Commerce and Industry Department, with an expression of opinion
as to their necessity (filed by Mr. 13. Robertson, vide Q. 43746).

6)
ROYAL COMMISSION UPON DECENTRALIZATION.

Name of the Return.
Is the Return called for
from
Local Governments ?
Is the Return furnished
to the
Secretary of State ?
Is the Return
necessary I
Commerce, etc.
Quarterly.
List of corrections to the Sea Customs, Ports,
Commercial Marine Rules, and other
Manuals of the Local Governments.
Six-montldy,
Nil.
Annual.
Confidential Reports on Officers of the
Imperial Customs Service.
Reports from each Maritime Province on
the trade, Customs administration, and
the working of the Merchandise Marks
Act.
Administration Reports of the various
Port Trusts.
Explosives and Factobies.
Quarterly.
Nil.
Six-monthly.
Nil.
Annual,
Statements showing the quantity of dan-
gerous and non-dangerous petroleum
produced in and imported into British
India.
Reports on the working of the Indian
Factories Act, 1881 (XV of 1881), in the
different provinces.
Return showing the minimum wages paid
to different classes of labour in factories
in India.
Geology and Mining.
Quarterly.
Returns of mineral concessions from all
h provinces.
Siie-month ly.
Nil.
33383
Lists of corrections are
received from Local
Governments as they
are published.
Yes .
Yes .
Yes .
Yes ; from the Govern-
ments of Burma,
Bengal, Bombay,
Madras, and Eastern
Bengal and Assam.
Yes ; all Local Govern-
ments and Adminis-
trations.
Yes .
Yes .
...
1
Yes ..
No .
Furnished by the Local
Governments c o n-
cerned.
By the Government of
India in the case of
the Calcutta and
Rangoon Reports.
By Local Govern-
ments in other cases.
No .
Yes .
Yes .
No .
This Department must
receive copies of the
corrections, but they
might be sent direct
to the Secretary of
State by Local Go-
vernments, instead of
being accumulated
here for a quarter.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Probably unnecessary.
Its abolition is under
consideration.
Yes. These statements
were prescribed with
the object of prevent-
ing any tendency to
unnecessary delay in
the disposal of conces-
sions and of affording
a check on the work-
ing of the rules.
Yearly or even half-
yearly reports would
not serve this object
and would probably
lead to additional
trouble in compila-
tion.
2 C
 
Annotationen