§ MR. CAINEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India if he will lay upon the Table of the House, print, and circulate to Members, the Agreements of the Bombay Government with those Native States within the area whose Abkari department has either been taken over by the Bombay Government or otherwise assimilated?
SIR J. GORSTThese agreements are not in the possession of the Secretary of State, but a synopsis of them is to be found in the Bombay Abkari Reports for 1886–87 and 1887–88. Their general purport is to assimilate the system of the various Native States with that of the adjoining British districts.