1 General Report
2 ON THE
3 ADMINISTRATION OF THE PUNJAB TERRITORIES,
4 -FROM 1854-55 To 1855-56 INCLUSIVE,
5 Entrovuction.
6 1. Tuts, the Third Punjab Report, is now prepared in conformity with
7 Period of this Report " the recent orders of the Supreme Government of
8 from 1853 to May 1856. India, requiring that an annual account should be
9 rendered of the Administration in each Province of the Empire. Under
10 ordinary circumstances, therefore, the Punjab Administration would now
11 be described for the -official year just ended, namely, 1855-56. But as
12 two Punjab Reports have already been presented to the Government,
13 embracing the conduct of affairs from 1849 to 1853 (inclusive), there
14 would remain, not only the last year, but also the year before that, yet
15 to be reported on. It has consequently been thought proper not’ to break
16 the thread of a story which had been continuously narrated for five
17 years, but to carry on the history from the point, where the last Punjab
18 Report ended, up to the close of the year now ordered to be reported —
19 on. Such a course will be consistent, and will probably be acceptable,
20 provided that the fixed limit of fifty folio pages be not exceeded on
21 account of the longer period comprised. The-present Report then, will
22 recount more than two years of labor and progress, a period comnitncing’
23 in some branches from May 1853 and ending on 30th April 1856.
24 ” According to the recent orders, the history of every thing will be brought
25 up to the last-pamed date for all Branches and Departments, except the
26 B