In 1868, the East India Railway Company purchased leases on 29 and 30 Nicholas Lane in the City of London. The Secretary of State for India sold the premises to the Standard Bank of South Africa for £24,000 in 1922.
In 1890, the India Office leased 800 acres of ground with buildings in the parishes of Winkfield, Easthampstead and Sandhurst Berkshire from the Crown. The land was to be used as a forest training ground.
In 1847, William Laird became endebted to the East India Company for the sum of £2,426 4s 4d and deposited as security three title deeds for property in Birkenhead Cheshire. The land passed from the Company to the India Office and in 1875 the Secretary of State filed a bill of complaint in Chance...
Pottah (lease or other document securing rights in land or house property) of 500 beegahs (Hindu measure of land area, varying in different parts of India) of jungle lands in district of Twenty-Four Parganas Bengal granted to Benjamin Lacam of Calcutta, merchant, by the East India Company in 1776...
In 1916 Nora Henrietta Countess Roberts granted the Lady Roberts Home Estate at Murree to the Government of India for use as a hospital primarily for European military officers and their families. Countess Roberts died in December 1921 and bequeathed all her estate to her daughter Aileen for life...
House in the Fort at Madras formerly belonging to Major General William Gent used by East India Company as Accountant General's Office. Purchased by the Company in 1852 for £350.
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