Papers regarding the compensation payable to those who lost property due to the mutiny at Vellore in July 1806 - cases of Lieutenant Theodore Charles Cutcliffe and the late Conductor Samuel Gill
Contingent allowances to H.M. 22nd Dragoons are to be drawn according to the established strength not according to the effective numbers of each troop - the same rule is to apply to all his Majesty's Regiments in India retrospectively and in future.
Reference by the Madras Government to the Court of Directors regarding the Court's orders for consolidating the Off-Reckoning Fund and establishing a Retired List of Officers.
The Corps of Native Invalids is to receive the full pay of effective Sepoys - this arrangement is also extended to the invalids of the Golundauze and Gun Lascar Establishments.
A work on Cavalry tactics compiled by Mr Neville formerly Riding Master to the Cavalry Details at Arcot is ordered to be printed at the Company's expense - the sum of 400 pagodas is awarded to Mr Neville.
Papers regarding changes in the method of recruiting soldiers in the United Kingdom for the Company's armies - different periods for which troops are engaged etc (includes a list of Madras artillerymen who have either shot themselves or attempted to do so in order to terminate their military serv...
Decision that it is no longer necessary for a European force to garrison Vellore but that a European detachment should remain there as long as native prisoners are confined in the town.
Annulment of the paragraph in the Code of Military Regulations which advised against recruiting men of lower caste for the native infantry - the native cavalry is to continue to be recruited from higher castes only.
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Feb-Mar 1807
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