A History of Assam c23.43

c23.43

Appoint-ment of Commis-sioners. For some years after the creation of the province the Chief Commissioner had no Commissioner to assist him. But the steady increase of work rendered it more and more difficult for him to perform efficiently his duties as head of the administration and, at the same time, to exercise direct control over the proceedings of the district officers. Accordingly, in 1880, he was relieved of the latter duty in the districts of the Brahmaputra valley by the Judicial Commissioner or, as he was now called, the Judge, of those districts, who was invested with the powers exercised by a Commissioner of a Division in Bengal.