13. PUBLIC  DEPARTMENT

            The Public Department was constituted in the year 1670. The G.O's from 1920-1953 were part of the records of the Madras Government and came into the custody of State Archives in 1956. The records cover the period from 1857-1939 and contain Missionaries, Agency Prisoners, and their release, I.A.S. Rules, Political Agitations, Elections, Books and Publications and the matters concerning Police Firings, matters relating to Courts, various Acts of Legislature, Merger of (Indian) States etc.

  The detailed information of the Public Department are given below:

Sl. No.	Category	Periodicity	No. of Records
1.	G.O’s
	a)  Public	1920-1952	9,433
	b) Public (Police)	1930-1936	642
	c) Public (Political)	1920-1936	23
2.	Printed Proceedings
	a) Public	1857-1939	415
	b) Public (Political)	1857-1935	360
	c) Public and Foreign	1901-1922	16

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