Papers regarding the Native Hospital and Poor Fund at Madras. Proposal of the Reverend Dr Richard Hall Kerr for establishing a Workhouse and Poorhouse.
The Bombay Government decide not to enact a proposed regulation for the sale of certain poisonous drugs under licence; question as to the deleterious properties of the dattura plant
Papers regarding the administration of criminal justice in the Bombay Presidency, Vol 1/1 - trial of 85 persons from the village of Devalai in the Northern Konkan, for murdering and mutilating a fisherman who was suspected of using sorcery to spread cholera (includes a transcript of the trial).
Admission of Monsieur Chappey, Treasurer to the French Government at Pondicherry, as a patient in the Madras Lunatic Asylum - his death there on 9 Jul 1833 - Madras Government write off the expenses of his short stay.
Further Proceedings regarding the road across India from Bombay to Calcutta for the season 1841/42
Scope & Content:
Proceedings of Lieutenants Laughton, McLeod and Haines, and of Mr Babbington, on the portion of the Raipore Post Road between Midnapore and the Jonk River, during the season 1841/42, and of the orders issued thereon approving of the past season's work and sanctioning operations for 1842/43; and ...
Correspondence and reports relating to the territories of the smaller Chiefs and independent Jagirdars connected with British India
Scope & Content:
The correspondence contains information on the following territories: Nepal (pp 9-12), Munipore [Manipur] (pp 13-16), Bhopal (pp 17-40), and Travancore and Cochin (pp 59-100). Letters were received from the Residents in Oudh, Hyderabad, and Mysore and Coorg stating that there were no independe...