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In 1876 — The administration of the sea customs 

 revenue, bringing with it the control of all the custom 

 houses, and the discussion of all matters connected 

 with the tariff of import and export duties. 



II. 



Why the Agricultural Department has not done, and 

 never can do {as at present constituted), anything 

 material for the improvement of Indian Agriculture, 



The organisation essential to any efficient Bureau of 

 Agriculture, and the urgent need in which India stands 

 of such a department. 



The above brief resume of the work with which the 

 Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce 

 has been charged, and of the very numerous subjects 

 dealt with in it, might, to a certain extent, be held to 

 explain why so little, comparatively, has been done 

 where agriculture is concerned. 



It might, with much show of reason, be argued that 

 with such an inordinate variety of questions to deal 

 with, with such a vast mass of operations of the most 

 diverse kinds, to direct, control, or supervise, no small 

 department, with a single Secretary and Under Secre- 

 tary, could possibly find time, after disposing of current 

 work that inevitably came before it, to make new work, 

 such as any effective action in the direction of agricul- 

 tural improvement must involve. 



This explanation, this argument, however valid per 

 se, would not fully or sufficiently state the case. 



