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For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1873, Pt. V, p. 290 ; for first Report of the Select Committee, see ibid, 1874, p. 82 ; for second Report of the Select Committee, see ibid, p. 121, and for proceedings in Council, see ibid, 1873, p. 483, and ibid, 1874, pp. 111, 152 and 154. The short title was given by the Bombay Short Titles Act, 1921 (Bom. 2 of 1921). Civil jails in the Presidency of Bombay outside the city of Bombay are administered under ss. 9 to 16 of this Act as amend by subsequent enactment, see the Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894), s. 1 (4) Central Acts.