The Fifty-Fifth Annual Report of the Committee of the British Indian Association for the Year 1906-07

As the Rule now stands a person is eligible for nomination by a group of Municipalities or a group of District Boards if in the case of the Municipalities he is a resident within sonic one of the Municipalities constituting the group or in one of the districts in which they are situated and in the case of District Boards if he is a resident within one of the districts belonging to the group [...].1t one of their Ini eting Vein passed the Resolution ieg.uding the iwoceeding of the Ihirisal authorities :— -That the Louttuittec of the British Indian :Association have heard with grave concern and distress the report of the action of the Barisal authorities which resulted in using Vi Bence to \ arils delegates to the Bengal. [...] The necessity for these operations the Government stated existed in a marked degree in the Faridpore District where uncertainty as to rights in the soil and the absence of any authorittive record of the relations between landlords and tenants had led to much agrarian trouble." The Lieutenant-Governor admitted that the famine and the flood had caused much hardship to the people of the Distr [...] The Provincial Insolvency Bill contempleted a channel in the land which ignored the rights of landholders in the matter of their lien on the land and crops for the recovery of rent and placed them in the category of the ryots' ordinary creditors. [...] In preparing the Budget the Finance Member of the Local Government was put in possesion of the views of the members in meeting assembled regarding the requirments of the various departments of the administration while the members themselves had the fullest opportunity of leisurely scrutinising every item of assets and expenditure and have been thus saved the effort of having to fight ag