CHAPTER IV.

THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION.

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Present state

Necessary amendments

Relation of government to its subjects.

Necessity of codification and systematization

Agrarian code and policy.

Duties of new Law Commission .

Penal code.

Criminal procedure and police

Civil procedure.

The civil law

Commercial code

Abolition of local and personal distinctions .

Judicial establishments

Proposed College of Justice.

Separation of executive and judicial functions

Heads of executive departments .

Local district executive

Union of executive power in same hands

Size, establishment, &c., of districts

Municipalities and proposed octroi

Location of stations

Language of business.

Mode of centralization

Relation of the government to its servants

Personnel of the service

Real nature of question covenanted or uncovenanted

Necessity of a line between European and native offices

Employment of natives

European service, comparative cheapness and advantage of

Question of profession or no profession.

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The uncovenanted European servants

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Proposed opening of important offices to persons not in the service

Civil employment of military officers

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Proposed remedy by transfer of education and tests to an Indian College

Regular sepoy army-its state-causes of its deficiencies

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Review of items of receipt, and proposed measures in regard thereto

Ditto of items of charge, and proposed reductions.

Home charges

General result

Application of the surplus.

Finance of different local governments

Financial treatment of Madras

Punjab finance .

Altered form of accounts

Local finance and responsibility

Plan of local budgets and financial distribution

Remittances by hypothecation

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Colonization-difficulties of settlers

Proposed encouragement of immigration of Southern Christians
Amalgamation with the natives, and gradual transformation of the

Material improvements: Agriculture and machinery

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Reasons for preferring Bombay to Calcutta line for main route

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