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The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island

1910

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 whoas 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 recommen [...] The functions of the Board of Conservancy were purely execuive they being authorized with the approval of the Justices of the Peace to construct new roads or streets or other public works tending to the improvement of the island and connected with the comfort and health of the inhabitants. [...] 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 munl:tipal fund was vested in the Justices of the Peace the " entire executive power and responsibility for the purposes of t [...] 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 advent of the plague in 1896 showed the inadwacy of the law in regard to the control of epidemic diseases and resulted in Act III of 1897 being passed whereby the financial control over the expenditure on plague was taken out of the hands of the Corporation and vested first in a Plague Commissioner and subsequently in the Municipal Commissioner.
government politics public policy
Pages
455
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
Chapter X. The Municipality Port Trust and Improvement Trust
1-98 unknown view
Chapter XI. Education
99-ii unknown view
Chapter XII. Health
161-207 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Places and Objects of Interest
208-384 unknown view
Index
i-xxxix unknown view