- Author:
- Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman)
- Publication Info:
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London:
R. Bentley,
1838,
pg 178
Text on page 178
178
GOVERNMENT.
copper. The relative value of these coins is as, follows :
5 Raes (an imaginary coin) 5 Pice
16 Annas or 80 pice 100 Reas
400 Reas or 4 quarters
a make
I i li
1 Pice 1 Anna Rupee
Quarter Rupee Rupee
There is no gold coinage in circulation.
There is a post-office, and a mail carried over the greater part of India ; and recently mails have been sent to Europe in a steamer, up the Red Sea to Suez, and thence by way of the Mediterranean. Should this be continued, which is doubtful, it will be the means of drawing India much nearer to Europe ; the average passage from England to Bombay, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, is 121 days, but by the new route it may be reduced to forty-five.*
* " The government of Bombay and its dependencies is by law vested in a Governor and three Counsellors, who are, in respect to the native powers, to levying war, making peace, collecting and applying revenues, levying and employing forces, or other matters of civil or military government, under the control of the Government-general of Bengal ; and are, in all cases whatever, to obey their orders, unless the Court of Directors shall have sent any orders repugnant thereto, not known to the Government-general, of which, in that case, they are to give the Government-general immediate advice. The Court of Directors appoint the Governor and members of the Council, and likewise the Commander-in-chief of the forces : the latter is not, ex officio, to be of the Council, but is not* " The government of Bombay and its dependencies is by law vested in a Governor and three Counsellors, who are, in respect to the native powers, to levying war, making peace, collecting and applying revenues, levying and employing forces, or other matters of civil or military government, under the control of the Government-general of Bengal ; and are, in all cases whatever, to obey their orders, unless the Court of Directors shall have sent any orders repugnant thereto, not known to the Government-general, of which, in that case, they are to give the Government-general immediate advice. The Court of Directors appoint the Governor and members of the Council, and likewise the Commander-in-chief of the forces : the latter is not, ex officio, to be of the Council, but is not
