be returned with your reply.
I am eli
(3) J. Pauncepte.
Col. Of.
7.1.1-5./86.
So Judia Office
No. 33 OF 1887.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
HOME DEPARTMENT.
PUBLIC.
1055
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT CROSS, G.C.B.,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
MY LORD,
Simla, the 28th May 1887.
WITH reference to the Despatches noted on the margin, we have the honour to transmit a copy of the replies
From Her Majesty's Secretary of State, No. 113. dated 25th November 1886.
From Her Majesty's Secretary of State, No. 51, dated 14th April 1887.
which we have received from the several
Local Governments and Administrations to
our request to be furnished with reports on the working of section 31 of the European Vagrancy Act, IX of 1874.
2. It will be seen from these reports that no necessity seems to have arisen
for bringing that section into operation anywhere in India.
We have the honour to be,
MY LORD,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble Servants,
DUFFERIN.
F. S. ROBERTS.
T. C. HOPE.
A. COLVIN.
G. CHESNEY.
A. R. SCOBLE.
J. B. PEILE.
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