6II(H)

8. FINANCE SECRETARIAT

            Finance and Political Departments were established in 1884A.D. during the period of salarjung II (Mir Laiq Ali Khan). These Departments were bifurcated in 1892. In this way a separate Finance Department came into existence. The functions of the Revenue Secretariat were assigned to the Finance Secretary in 1894. In 1896 the Revenue branch was taken away from the Finance Secretary, so that Finance became an independent unit during the period of George Casson Walker who was made Finance Minister in 1905. He introduced during his period of premiership several fiscal and administrative reforms. In the department and reorganized it on modern lines of British Patterns . All the records of this Secretariat are in Persian Urdu. some Farmans are also available.

The detailed particulars of the records of Finance Secretariat are shown below:

Sl. No. Nature of the Documents Periodicity No. of Documents

1. Accounts and J. A section 1943-1948A.D 1,982

2. Accounts section of Nazim 1946-1950A.D 2,111

3. Accounts and Budget Section 1907-1941A.D 12,174

4. Adalat section 1907-1946A.D. 37,874

5. Army section 1906-1934A.D. 10,370

6. Commerce and Industries section 1828-1936A.D.   1,455

7. Court of Wards section 1920-1928A.D. 2,555

8. English Resource branch 1887-1963A.D. 20,654

9. Financial matters, currency,coins, atiyat, political, agricultural industries etc. (files recently transferred from Secretariat to main office) 1859-1954A.D 1, 20,737

10. Kulliyat branch 1875-1950A.D 16,732

11. Mal section 1907-1947A.D. 19,103

12. Mansab section 1830-1891A.D 4,836

13. Manzuriyat section 1900-1911A.D. 23,978

14. Miscellaneous section 1890-1917A.D. 11,993

15. Nazm-i- jamiyat section 1875-1950A.D. 1,367

16. Nazm- i- Urub section 1946-1949A.D. 6,982

17. P.W.D. and irrigation section 1906-1934A.D. 9,310