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be returned with your reply.

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(3) J. Pauncepte.

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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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