Department.
Member of Council.
Chief Secretary.
I. Foreign Department
The Viceroy.
Sir C. U. Aitchison, K.C.S.I.
II. Public Works Department
The Viceroy.
Divided into branches.
III. Home Department
Hon. Sir Barrow Ellis, K.C.S.I.
Sir E. Clive Bayley, K.C.S.I.
IV. Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce
Hon. Sir J. Strachey, K.C.S.I.
Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B.
V. Financial Department
Hon. Sir R. Temple, K C.S.I.
Mr. Barclay Chapman, C.S.I.
VI. Military Department
Major-General the Hon. Sir H. Norman, K C.S.I.
General H. K. Burne, C.B.
VII. Legislative Department
Hon. Sir Fitzjames Stephen, Q.C., K.C.S.I.
Mr. Whitley Stokes, C.S.I., D.C.L.
Lord Mayo, besides his duties as President of the Council and final source of authority in each of the seven Departments, was therefore in his own person Foreign Minister and Minister of Public Works. The Home Minister, the Minister of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce, and the Finance Minister, were members of the India Civil Service, together with the Secretaries and Under-Secretaries in those and in the Foreign Department. Of the other two Departments, the Military was presided over by a distinguished soldier, and the Legislative by an eminent member of the English Bar.
Routine and ordinary matters were disposed of by the Member of Council within whose Department they fell. Papers of greater importance were sent, with the initiating Member's opinion, to the Viceroy, who
