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)

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Inspectors and Directors-General—cont.
Position and functions, &c.—cont.
Inspectors-General subordinate to the Home
Department (Risley) 45394.
Opinion that officers were both useful and
necessary (Risley) 45394 p. 157, 45429.
Proper functions (Carlyle) 44298-317.
Qualifications
Length of service before appointment, &c. (Giles)
43531.
Snecial qualifications (Carlyle) 44012-22.
Variety of experience, value of (Carlyle)
44404-7.
Reasons why variety of experience was specially
desirable in the case of forests (Carlyle)
44110-3.
Recruitment (Giles) 43531.
Revenue and Agricultural Department, relations
with, practice in regard to submitting papers, &c.
(Carlyle) 44008-9.
Tours
Notice to Provincial Government, offer of help
and complete note of result of visit — Suggestion
(Carlyle) 44305-6 (Risley) 45885.
Opinion in favour of free right to tour (Carlyle)
44304.
Utility (Carlyle) 44053.
See also names of departments.
Irrigation
Distribution of water—Officer responsible, opinion
in favour of Irrigation Officer (Jacob) 44489,
44545.
Inspector-General, powers and duties, App. Ic.,
p. 193.
Detailed examination of projects for imperial
works (Jacob) 44802.
Officers—Position and powers of Irrigation Officers,
relations with Revenue Officers, &c.
Assessment and distribution, opinion in favour
of power for Irrigation Officer (Jacob) 44489,
44545-51, 44595-9, 44727.
Collection of water rates—Opinion against col-
lection by Irrigation Officer (Jacob) 44591-5.
Co-terminous charges for Public Works and
Revenue Officers in United Provinces—Opinion
against extension of system (Jacob) 44489.
Objections to putting the Irrigation Officer under
control of Revenue Officer (Jacob) 44489.
Qualifications of Irrigation and District Officers
compared—’Knowledge of land tenures, soils,
&c. (Jacob) 44595-9.
Remission work (Jacob) 44603-7.
Superintending Engineer, power of sanction—•
Productive and protective works (Jacob)
44804.
“ Open capital account,” meaning of (Jacob) 44470.
Rates for water
Assessment
Basis of assessment—Opinion against cost of
works as basis (Jacob) 44557.
Officer responsible, opinion in favour of
Irrigation Officer (Jacob) 44489, 44545.
Difficulty where water rate was consolidated
with land revenue, question of (Jacob)
44546-51.
Collection, Officer responsible—Opinion in favour
of Collector as against Irrigation Officer
(Jacob) 44591-5.
Government of India control, uniformity question,
&c.
Opinion against, matter might be left to
Provincial Governments (Jacob) 44452-6.
Powers of Provincial Governments, opinion in
favour of retention of Government of India
control pending settlement of principles
on which rates should be levied (Carlyle)
44050, 44129-31.
United Provinces (Carlyle) 44210-1.
Receipts, disposal of, as between Imperial and
Provincial Heads in the various provinces
(Carlyle) 44050, 44129.
Sanction of works
Protective works—Opinion in favour of retention
of Government of India control, App. Ic.,
pp. 192-3.
Provincial Governments, powers of
Minor works and navigation, App. Ic., p. 192.
Table, App. Ic., p. 193.
See also Public Works.
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Jacob, Mr. L. M., C.S.I.—Secretary to Government of'
India in Public Works Department.
Evidence 44442-807.
Jail manufactures—Government of India control,
opinion iu favour of (Risley) 45628-30.
Jails—Appointment of officers in charge, authority
for—Opinion in favour of Government of India
(Bomford) 43086 p. 29, 43273-5.

K.
Karachi Port Trust
Powers in regard to passing works and establish-
ments—Opinion in favour of increased powers
(Robertson) 43870-1.

L.
Land Records
Government of India control, unsuitable economies
pressed on Bengal, alleged—Reply to allegation
(Carlyle) 44439.
Punjab procedure, tendency to impose upon other
provinces, question of—Bengal complaint (Carlyle)
44422-4.
Reports, returns, &c.—Object of having two
separate reports from Bombay (Carlyle) 44082-4.
Land Revenue
Alienation of land
Restrictions on powers of Provincial Govern-
ments, question of relaxation, &c.
Burma, restrictions on grant of land for
religious purposes and on grant to non
Barmans in Upper Burma (Carlyle) 44048
44052, 44437.
Concessions, grants, leases and contracts, con-
tractual powers of Government of India
and Provincial Governments in respect of-
Separate rules framed by Secretary of State
in 1894 (Carlyle) 44045.
Extent to which relaxation was desirable-
Reasons for retention of Government of
India control (Meston) 45087-90, 45218-21.
Genesis and history of existing restrictions
(Carlyle) 44046.
Limits of value imposed by resolution of 1872,
enhancement proposed (Carlyle) 44047.
Mining rights, concessions on, separate rules
issued (Carlyle) 44045.
Question under consideration App. 16., p. 191.
Terms of Government of India resolution of
February, 1872 (Carlyle) 44045.
Waste lands (Carlyle) 44045.
Returns required by Finance Department, ques-
tion of utility (Carlyle) 44070-81 (Meston)
44942?
Alienation of land revenue — Annual return to
Government of India (Carlyle) 44045.
Allocation of revenue between Government of
India and Provincial Governments — Adjusting
difference necessary to equate revenue and ex-
penditure thrown on land revenue (Meston)
45023, 45322.
Assignments of Land Revenue—Annual provincial
returns required by Finance Department, ques-
tion of utility (Carlyle) 44070-81 (Meston) 44942.
Code — Absence of consolidated code, effect in
Bengal (Carlyle) 44432.
Collection
Commission paid to Revenue Collector exceeding
20 per cent, of collection, sanction of Govern-
ment of India required in Burma—Rule framed
by Burma Government (Carlyle) 44437.
Cost borne by Provincial Government (Meston)
44860.
Government of India control
Burma
Different degree of intervention in Upper and
Lower Burma (Carlyle) 44435.
Suggestions for relaxation (Carlyle) 44052.
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