Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency. The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island

The inconvenience that might have arisen from the dual control thus exercised over the Surveyor to the Court and the Superintendent of Repairs was largely obviated by making one individual Chairman both of the Court of Petty Sessions and the Board of Conservancy.3 The Surveyor to the Court dealt with the regulation of buildings under the Building Act XXVIII of 1839 and with the prevention of nuisa [...] Except in the case of the Executive Engineer the Executive Health Officer the Secretary Schools Committee and the Auditors whose appointment rests with the Municipal Coporation and of the Municipal Secretary who is appointed by the Standing Committee the number and the salaries of the various officers and servants of the Corporation are detemined by the Standing Committee on the recomme [...] The Act clearly laid down that the " Municipal Fund of the City of Bombay " together with all property of what nature or kind soever which may become vested in the Justices was to be.under " the direction management and control of the Justices." Though the control of the municipal fund was vested in the Justices of the Peace the " entire executive power and responsibility for the purposes of th [...] But already were heard the rumblings of the distant storm that was to break upon the Municipal Commissioner and committees were sitting to discuss the constitution of the Corporation and the position of the executive the question of Municipal taxation and its incidence the financial position of the Municipality at the introduction of the Municipal Act of 1865 and the value of the real property [...] the Corporation as the custodians of the city's purse the Standing Committee as the financial advisory body and the Municipal Commissioner as the only executive officer responsible to the Corporation remained practically the same as in the Acts of 1872 and 1878.