[32] Bombay Courier, February 4th, 1797.
[33] Sir J. Mackintosh’s letter of October, 1811, in Morley, Digest etc. Vol. II.
[34] Warden’s Report in Morley, Digest etc. Vol. II, pp. 482 ff.
[35] The Third Magistrate was not appointed until 1830. The other two were appointed in 1812, and the Second exercised jurisdiction over the whole Island, excluding the Fort and Harbour.
[36] Morley, Digest etc. (Warden’s Report), Vol. II.
[37] Hobson-Jobson, 1903, s. v. Cauzee.
[38] The Kazis of the Bene-Israel officiated at all festivals of the community until the latter half of the nineteenth century, when, as education advanced, the office gradually became extinct. One Samuel Nissim was Kazi in 1800 (Gazetteer of Bombay City & Island, Vol I, pp. 250 ff.)
[39] One of the most notorious gangs was that of a certain Ali Paru, described in the Times of India of July 27, 1872.
[40] Bombay Courier, March 3rd, 1827.
[41] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, p. 143.