File S&C 1231/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade and related minute paper regarding the forwarding, for the use of the Government of Bombay, copies of the General Rules for Courts of Survey issued by the Lord Chancellor under Section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876
File S&C 1232/1880 - Papers on the subject of the imposition of new Turkish pilgrim regulations before sufficient time had elapsed for those regulations to become known to Shipmasters
Scope & Content:
File includes despatches from Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople and the Acting British Consul at Jeddah relating to the imposition of fines at Jeddah Port upon the Masters of vessels for neglect of new sanitary regulations issued by the Health Board at Constantinople
File S&C 1234/1880 - Statement of Government stores saved from the wreck of the ss. Penguin and shipped to Madras, and Government of Madras Marine Department despatch No.472, dated 16th September 1880, regarding the transmission to the Secretary of State for India of a copy of the statement together with Proceedings
File S&C 1235/1880 - Transmission to the Board of Trade of the proceedings of an investigation held at Aden into the circumstances attending the wreck of the British steam ship Duke of Lancaster on the east side of Jubal Zooghur Island in the Red Sea on the 13th July 1880
Scope & Content:
The proceedings of the investigation are not present in the file
File S&C 1236/1880 - Schedule of copies of Tide Tables of Indian Ports, 1881, and related papers regarding the distribution and cost of the Tide Tables
File S&C 1237/1880 - Papers on the subject of the stranding of the British steamer ss. Hallamshire near Ras-el-Had, and the measures proposed for the prevention of wreckage by the wild tribes on the Arabian coasts
File S&C 1239/1880 - Proposal of Sir Walter Elliot, late Madras Civil Service, on the advisability of an archaeological survey of India being undertaken without delay with a suggestion that the Madras Presidency should be added for the purposes of the proposed survey to the charge of Mr James Burgess, Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of Bombay
File S&C 1240/1880 - Request of Professor A H Church, Royston House, Kew, for an interview with an official person in the India Office before undertaking work on the preparation of a manual on the subject of food grains and other vegetable products of India