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APPENDIX :
Secretary of State's Memorial Rules—concluded.
Existing.
to the Secretary of State for India unless the
memorialist has previously memorialized the
Government of India and the Local (Government
concerned on the same subject; and the Govern-
ment of Madras or Bombay may withhold the
transmission of a memorial which under Bule IV.
they are authorized to forward direct, unless the
memorialist has previously memorialized the Local
Government concerned on the same subject: pro-
vided that, when the memorial is one for pardon
which no authority in India has power to grant,
it should be addressed to His Majesty and for-
warded to the Secretary of State for India.
XIV. -—When a memorial is withheld, the
memorialist should be informed of the fact and
of the reason for it.
XV. —A list of memorials withheld under the
discretionary power conferred by Rule XII., with
the reasons for withholding them, will be for-
warded quarterly to 'the Government of India
under the case of memorials withheld by Local
-Governments under the same discretionary power,
and by the Government of India in the depart-
ment concerned to the Secretary of State for
India.
Proposed.
has power to grant, and a previous applica-
tion for redress has not been made to the
Local Government concerned or to the
Government of India on the subject.
Note.— When a memorial is one for pardon which no
authority in India has power to grant, it should be ad-
dressed to his Majesty and forwarded to the Secretary of
State for India.
XIII. —When a memorial is withheld, the
memorialist should be informed of the fact and of
the reason for it.
XIV. —A list of memorials withheld under the
discretionary power conferred by Rules VII. and
XII., with the reasons for withholding them, will
be forwarded quarterly to the Government of India
in the case of memorials withheld by Local
Governments under the same discretionary power,
and by the Government of India in the department
concerned to the Secretary of State for India.
APPENDIX XIV.
{Filed by Sir H. Risley, vide Q. 45,558.)
No. G4 of 1903.—Government of India.—Finance and Commerce Department.—Salaries,
Establishments, etc. (Administration).
To The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton, G.C.S.I., His Majesty’s Secretary of State
for India, Calcutta, the 12th March, 1903.
My Lord,
Wb have the honour to submit, for Your
Lordship’s favourable consideration, the following
proposals for increasing both the gazetted, and
ministerial establishment of our Home Depart-
ment.
2. During recent years the Government of India
have, on two occasions, been constrained to recom-
mend additions to this establishment. In 'Septem-
ber, 1890, Lord Lansdowne’s Government urged the
need for the appointment of a Deputy Secretary,
and in March, 1898, Lord Elgin’s Government
asked that the office staff might be increased by
a superintendent, six clerks and a proof reader.
‘The first proposal was sanctioned in Lord Cross’
Despatch No. 254 (Financial), dated the 13th
November, 1890, and the second in Your Lordship’s
Despatch No. 67 (Public), dated the 12th May,
1898. At the present time the officers of the
Department are the Secretary, Deputy-Secretary,
Under-Secretary and Registrar, and there are 44
clerks the majority of whom are distributed among
the four main branches of the office, at the head
■of each of which is a superintendent. The Officer
in charge of the Records, who is ex-officio an
Assistant Secretary to the Government of India,
deals with a few cases connected with the subject-
matter of his general duties.
3. It has for some time past been evident that
the Home Department staff is painfully, and even
■dangerously, overtaxed. The opinion of all those
who have watched or taken part in the. work of
the department is unanimous on this subject, and
the test of personal experience is fully corroborated
by the statistics of the business transacted. The
average annual number of letters received and
issued during the years 1886 to 1889 was about
27,000. The following table gives similar figures
for the years 1891 to 1902 inclusive: —
Year.
Receipts and
issues.
1891
. 25,456
1892
. 25,385
1893
. 25,590
1894
. 27,640
1895
. 29,825
1896
. 30,835
1897
. 30,716°
1898
. 37,360
1899
. 42,603
1900
. 46,288
1901
. 46,165°
1902
. 49,266
The aggregate volume of work dealt with at
various times, and the strength of the clerical
establishment employed on its disposal, is shown
in the following comparative statement: —
Year.
Number of Receipts
and Issues. «
Number of
Clerks.
1881.
17,500
32
1891 .
25,000
40
1896 .
31,000
40
1902 .
49,000
48
The gradual increase of work between 1890 and
1897 rendered necessary the addition of a Superin-
tendent and seven clerks mentioned in paragraph 2
above. During the past five years the growth of
* Excluding certain special classes of work.
APPENDIX :
Secretary of State's Memorial Rules—concluded.
Existing.
to the Secretary of State for India unless the
memorialist has previously memorialized the
Government of India and the Local (Government
concerned on the same subject; and the Govern-
ment of Madras or Bombay may withhold the
transmission of a memorial which under Bule IV.
they are authorized to forward direct, unless the
memorialist has previously memorialized the Local
Government concerned on the same subject: pro-
vided that, when the memorial is one for pardon
which no authority in India has power to grant,
it should be addressed to His Majesty and for-
warded to the Secretary of State for India.
XIV. -—When a memorial is withheld, the
memorialist should be informed of the fact and
of the reason for it.
XV. —A list of memorials withheld under the
discretionary power conferred by Rule XII., with
the reasons for withholding them, will be for-
warded quarterly to 'the Government of India
under the case of memorials withheld by Local
-Governments under the same discretionary power,
and by the Government of India in the depart-
ment concerned to the Secretary of State for
India.
Proposed.
has power to grant, and a previous applica-
tion for redress has not been made to the
Local Government concerned or to the
Government of India on the subject.
Note.— When a memorial is one for pardon which no
authority in India has power to grant, it should be ad-
dressed to his Majesty and forwarded to the Secretary of
State for India.
XIII. —When a memorial is withheld, the
memorialist should be informed of the fact and of
the reason for it.
XIV. —A list of memorials withheld under the
discretionary power conferred by Rules VII. and
XII., with the reasons for withholding them, will
be forwarded quarterly to the Government of India
in the case of memorials withheld by Local
Governments under the same discretionary power,
and by the Government of India in the department
concerned to the Secretary of State for India.
APPENDIX XIV.
{Filed by Sir H. Risley, vide Q. 45,558.)
No. G4 of 1903.—Government of India.—Finance and Commerce Department.—Salaries,
Establishments, etc. (Administration).
To The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton, G.C.S.I., His Majesty’s Secretary of State
for India, Calcutta, the 12th March, 1903.
My Lord,
Wb have the honour to submit, for Your
Lordship’s favourable consideration, the following
proposals for increasing both the gazetted, and
ministerial establishment of our Home Depart-
ment.
2. During recent years the Government of India
have, on two occasions, been constrained to recom-
mend additions to this establishment. In 'Septem-
ber, 1890, Lord Lansdowne’s Government urged the
need for the appointment of a Deputy Secretary,
and in March, 1898, Lord Elgin’s Government
asked that the office staff might be increased by
a superintendent, six clerks and a proof reader.
‘The first proposal was sanctioned in Lord Cross’
Despatch No. 254 (Financial), dated the 13th
November, 1890, and the second in Your Lordship’s
Despatch No. 67 (Public), dated the 12th May,
1898. At the present time the officers of the
Department are the Secretary, Deputy-Secretary,
Under-Secretary and Registrar, and there are 44
clerks the majority of whom are distributed among
the four main branches of the office, at the head
■of each of which is a superintendent. The Officer
in charge of the Records, who is ex-officio an
Assistant Secretary to the Government of India,
deals with a few cases connected with the subject-
matter of his general duties.
3. It has for some time past been evident that
the Home Department staff is painfully, and even
■dangerously, overtaxed. The opinion of all those
who have watched or taken part in the. work of
the department is unanimous on this subject, and
the test of personal experience is fully corroborated
by the statistics of the business transacted. The
average annual number of letters received and
issued during the years 1886 to 1889 was about
27,000. The following table gives similar figures
for the years 1891 to 1902 inclusive: —
Year.
Receipts and
issues.
1891
. 25,456
1892
. 25,385
1893
. 25,590
1894
. 27,640
1895
. 29,825
1896
. 30,835
1897
. 30,716°
1898
. 37,360
1899
. 42,603
1900
. 46,288
1901
. 46,165°
1902
. 49,266
The aggregate volume of work dealt with at
various times, and the strength of the clerical
establishment employed on its disposal, is shown
in the following comparative statement: —
Year.
Number of Receipts
and Issues. «
Number of
Clerks.
1881.
17,500
32
1891 .
25,000
40
1896 .
31,000
40
1902 .
49,000
48
The gradual increase of work between 1890 and
1897 rendered necessary the addition of a Superin-
tendent and seven clerks mentioned in paragraph 2
above. During the past five years the growth of
* Excluding certain special classes of work.