1489: Alteration in the scale of postage on letters forwarded via Marseilles, and a correction to the Tabular Statement embodied in the enclosure of the Secretary of State for India's Public Despatch No.41, dated 16th May 1863
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.1 of 1863, dated 23 June 1863; and a letter from E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, to A M Monteath, in charge of the Office of Director General of the Post Office of India, dated 23rd June 1863
1590 and 1645: Letters from the Government of India, Home Department, regarding their annual requisition for the recruitment of Her Majesty's Civil Service on the Bengal Establishment, the addition to be made to the number of the Bengal Civil Service during the year 1865, and the proportion in which this number should be distributed between the Lower and Upper Provinces of the Bengal Presidency
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.53 of 1863, dated 18 November 1863 No.1 of 1864, dated 7 January 1864
1872: Correspondence containing a Report on the Quinine producing Cinchona cultivation at Darjeeling from 1st April 1863 to 15th July 1864, by T Anderson, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, with information as to the cost of the cultivation
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.9 of 1865, dated 31 January 1865
1923: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, reporting the appointment of Colonel Henry Marion Durand, of Her Majesty's Military Service, to be a temporary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.39 of 1865, dated 27 April 1865
2036: Proposal by the Government of Bombay to remove the Military Finance Offices from Bombay to Poona
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public Works letter received from India, No.140 of 1865, dated 19 October 1865; and a copy of the Bombay Public Works letter, No.53 of 1865, dated 7 November 1865
2118: Application from the Agents of the British Indian Steam Navigation Company that the arrangement regarding the fortnightly Mail Service between Bombay and the Persian Gulf may be sanctioned for five years instead of two
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.5 of 1866, dated 28 March 1866
2322: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, requesting two copies of certain local and personal Acts relating to Companies formed in England to carry out undertakings in India
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.11 of 1867, dated 29 January 1867; and a list of the Acts required
2332: Bengal Special Narrative No.3, dated 20th December 1866, transmitting samples of bark of Cinchona Succirubra from the Government plantations at Darjeeling, with a view to their being analysed by Mr Howard
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.3 of 1867, dated 5 January 1867
2454: Remarks of Government on the report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the circumstances connected with the famine in Orissa and other parts of Bengal in 1866, with other papers relating to the famine
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.71 of 1867, dated 22 April 1867 No.85 of 1867, dated 14 May 1867 No.94 of 1867, dated 29 May 1867 A copy of the Commissions Report is not included in the collection.