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The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday July 30th 1878

1878

The essay was deemed to be so important on account of the diclosures it made as to what the character of our relations with India had ever been and the way in which the financial embarrassments and public debt of the latter had arisen that a request was made to the Secretary of State to receive a deputation on the subject. [...] But if the report of the CommiMon showed a tendency to shirk the main causes of the evil and to magnify the lesser and subsidiary ones the framers of the Bill seem to have been still more under the influence of _ a similar bias. [...] To limit the power of the Civil Court in respect of the sale of immovable property in satisfaction of a decree for money to cases in which the property was specifically pledged ae security for the claim decreed To enforce the reduction into writing of all contracts so pledging immovable property and the registration of the instruments em. [...] The Minister borrowed the words of Burke to describe the state of the finances— An exchequer wherein extortion was the aseseser fraud the cashier confusion the accountant concealment the reporter and oblivion the remebrancer." One of the first reforms df. [...] The case is so neatly disposed of that we give the concluding sentences of the report of the Committee :- Your Committee are well aware of the peculiar function which the Council of India fills in regard to the finances of India By the statute which creates it it is enacted that " the expenditure of the revenues of India both in India and elsewhere shall be subject to the control of the Secre
government politics public policy
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
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The Friend of India and Statesman
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English Supplement to the Friend of India and Statesman
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