EXTRA-REGULATION TRACTS : Subordinate to the Government, N.W.P.-Whalley Provides us a short Summary of the history of Kumaun under the British and a chronological table of important matters affecting the Judicial and revenue administration of Kumaun. Its most significant contribution is retrival of those excerpts, which Whalley was fortunately able to secure, during his visits to several these memos, exist no more. Whalley was directed by the Government, in July 1869, to collect and arrange information regarding the laws in force in these Non-Regulation districts. To accomplish this task he had to search through a correspondence spanning a period well over half a century. He has chronologically listed all Acts, enacted, exempted or extented. He also gives a resume of the administrative changes of each district, to serve both as an index to its original legislation and the causes out of which it sprang, and also as a chronicle of the development of its legal and judical systems. Whalley's conclusions, it would be found, successfully unfold the mystique, that one often confronts, if unaided by this seminal work; wading through volumes after volumes of proceedings and official correspondence, so clinically catalogued and indexed now by Dewar; kept in various record rooms and archives. In short, Whalley's work is the of millions of words which constitute to Kumaun Records.<br /><br />