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Emigration. — Including the regulation and control 

 of emigration from India to British and Foreign colo- 

 nies, and correspondence connected with the treatment 

 of the emigrants there, and their return to India ; also 

 all correspondence connected with emigration to the tea 

 districts of Assam, and State schemes of emigration, 

 such as the emigration from Bengal to Burmah in 

 1874, during the famine in Behar, and the emigration 

 of agriculturists to the Central Provinces from other 

 over-populated tracts. 



Statistics. — Operations connected with the Weights 

 and Measures Act (a dead letter), the taking of the 

 census of India, and the preparation of a Gazetteer, 

 based on the results of an elaborate statistical survey. 



To all these departments were added ; — 



In 1874 — All correspondence connected with mer- 

 chant shipping, lights, buoys, and beacons, ports and 

 port dues, pilots and pilotage. 



In the same year — The administration of a new 

 department then constituted for the purpose of sur- 

 veying systematically all the coasts and harbours of 

 India, issuing charts of the same to the public, pub- 

 lishing hydrographic notices and notices of dangers to 

 navigation, and changes in positions of lights and 

 buoys, registers of wrecks, and accounts of light- 

 houses and light-vessels. 



In 1875 — The compilation of statistics of trade, sea- 

 borne and inland, for the whole empire, their collation 

 and prompt publication, with explanatory notices and 

 reviews of the figures, involving detailed enquiries 

 into the commercial and industrial aspects of the 

 country. 



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