§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will consider the expediency of abolishing the Revenue Board in the Madras Presidency and appointing in its place Revenue Commissioners who would be required, like the Commissioners in the Bombay Presidency, to visit each collectorate in their charge, and ascertain locally how the administration is being carried on.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton). The Madras Revenue Board was reorganised in 1886 with the object of securing individual initiative and responsibility and of enabling the members to make frequent tours of inspection in the district. Four Commissioners in charge of separate Departments, who meet together as a Board only on special occasions, were then substituted for the old collective Board. I do not propose to revise these arrangements, which work satisfactorily.