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The present form of government of Ceylon Was established by Letters Patent of April 1831, and supplementary orders of March 1833. According to the terms of this constitution, the administration is in the hands of a Governor, aided by an Executive Council of five members; viz. the Officer Commanding the Troops, the Colonial Secretary, the Queen’s Advocate, the Treasurer, and the Auditor-General; and a Legislative Council of 15 members, including the members of the Executive Council, four other officeholders, and six unofficial members.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Ceylon
1. Official Publications
Report of Governor Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, dated Colombo, September 14, 1867; in ‘Reports, showing the present state of H. M.’s Colonial Possessions.’ Part III. Eastern Colonies. Fol. London, 1808.
Report of Governor Sir C. J. MacCarthy, dated Colombo, August 20, 1863; in ‘Reports on the Past and Present State of H. M.’s Colonial Possessions.’ Part II. London, 1864.
Report on the State of Ceylon, dated July, 1861; in ‘Reports on the Past and Present State of H. M.’s Colonial Possessions.’ Part II. London, 1865.
Statistical Tables relating to the Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. Part XII. Fol. London, 1868.
Statistical Abstract for the Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. No. V. 8. London, 1869.
2. Non-Official Publications
Baker (S. W.), Eight Years’ Wanderings in Ceylon. 8. London, 1855.
Duncan (George), Geography of India. Part II. Ceylon. 8. Madras, 1865.
Mouat (Frederic J.), Rough Notes of a Trip to Reunion, the Mauritius, and Ceylon. 8. Calcutta, 1852.
Pridham (C.), Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon. 2 vols. 8. Loudon, 1849.
Ransonmet-Villez (Baron E. von), Ceylon: Skizzcnseiner Bewohner, seines Thier und Pflanzenlebcns. FoL Brunswick, 1868.
Schmarda (L. K.), Reise um die Erde; Zeilon. Vol. I. 8. Braunschweig, 1861.
Sirr (H. C.), Ceylon and the Cingalese. 2 vols. 8. London, 1851.
Tennent (Sir James Emerson), Ceylon: an Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical. 5th ed. London, 1860.
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Martin, F. (1870). Ceylon. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230252998_35
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