994: Correspondence regarding the re-engagement of the services of Dr Thomas Oldham as Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India for a further period of five years, from the 5th March 1861, on an increased salary of 1,250 rupees per mensem
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.60 of 1861, dated 17 August 1861
1016: Report by R Manderson, Superintendent, Dehra Dun, dated 3rd June 1861, on the Christian Colony established there by Major Rind, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.71 of 1861, dated 19 September 1861
1051: Papers on the subject of the famine in several of the Districts of Upper India
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: Report on the Famine of 1860-61 by Col R Baird Smith, On Special Duty, dated 25th May 1861. The following maps accompany the report: Map (Chart No.I) showing the route taken through the Famine Tract in the North Western Provinces and Punjab, 1861....
1108: Correspondence on the subject of the augmentation of the Staff of the Geological Survey Department, and the creation therein of a grade of Deputy Superintendents
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.94 of 1861, dated 12 December 1861
1146: Memorial from the Calcutta Trades Association praying that the Mail communication existing between England and Calcutta by way of Ceylon and Madras may not be altered by the transfer of the Mail to the Bombay route
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.16 of 1861, dated 7 December 1861
1190: Correspondence with the Government of Bombay on the subject of prohibiting Public Officers from engaging in speculations in India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.23 of 1862, dated 11 March 1862; and Minutes recorded by the Governor of Bombay and the Members of his Council, and by the Governor General of India and the Members of his Council, on the subject
1289: Papers regarding the arrangements made in consequence of the abolition of the Special Agency for the suppression of Meriah sacrifice [human sacrifice] and female infanticide in the Hill Tracts of Orissa
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.52 of 1862, dated 5 June 1862
1462: Memorandum by E Drummond, Lieutenant Governor of the North Western Provinces, recommending the purchase, on the public account, at a cost of 25,000 rupees, of the furniture, &c., left in the Government House at Allahabad by the late Lieutenant Governor, Mr Edmonstone
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.28 of 1863, dated 22 May 1863; and the Memorandum