Missing pages: 99-110 (digitised from another copy and inserted at the end of the main run). This volume contains notification nos. 887 to 914 and 1 to 108. The new notifications start with the new issue number 1. Some of the topics covered are: modification in the organization of the naval police (corps du commissariat de la marine); creation of a French consulate in Calcutta; appointment of de Nourquer Ducamper as governor of French India; various transfers of judicial officers; notices/advice for navigators; gauging of steam ships; leave and convalescence in the colonial service; welfare/social security of naval staff and their families; fixing precisely the assignments of the cazi and mullah (Muslim clergy) in Pondicherry; rules and instructions for Pondicherry’s harbour police; decrees on several points of criminal procedure; modification in the regime of the sanitary police; several modifications to the code of civil procedure; new organization of Tribunals of First instance in Chandernagore and Karikal; renaming of “ateliers publics” to “ateliers de bienfaisance” and their organization; organization of the institution of notables. This volume includes an important royal ordinance of 23 July 1840 on the organization of the Government of the French establishments in India. It defines at length the functions and powers of the governor, those of the chiefs of administrative services and other important functionaries and of the administrative council (conseil d'administration); it also orders the creation of elected councils such as the General Council (Conseil Général) and district councils (conseils d'arrondissements), to be elected by an assembly of notables.
1 volume containing 9 issues and indices; 460 pages. Dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
