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231: Report by the Officiating Director General of the Post Office of India on the operations of the Department during the years 1856-57 and 1857-58, together with a copy of the orders of Government thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.13 of 1859, dated 9 July 1859
301 & 339: Renewal for another year of the contract with Moolchand Vandraum for the supply of petty stores required for the Bombay Post Office
Scope & Content:
The collection includes an extract from a Despatch from the Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, in the Home Department (Post Office), No.10 of 1859, dated 13 June 1859
411: Request by the Government of Bengal that Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies may be moved to obtain from the several colonial Governments the emigration returns indicated
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.144 of 1859, dated 19 December 1859
641: Special Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, No.14 (General), dated 8th August 1860, forwarding with observations the printed volumes of the Transactions of the Bengal Government in the Judicial, Revenue and General Departments, for the months of April, May, June and July 1860
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Home Department letter received from India, No.87 of 1860, dated 11 August 1860; a copy of the Special Narrative; and papers relating to certain reforms proposed by Thomas Jones, Register, Government of Bengal, to be introduced in the Printing Department ...
805: Correspondence regarding the publication of a Native newspaper called The People's Friend, in the District of Etawah in the North Western Provinces
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.18 of 1861, dated 26 February 1861; and a copy of The People's Friend, dated 1st January 1861, in English, Hindi and Urdu
853: Despatch from the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, dated 30th April 1860, and enclosures, reporting the misconduct of Dr Seamen, the Medical Officer in charge of Emigrants for Demarara per Thomas Hamlin, and the circumstances under which the Commander of that ship proceeded on his voyage without a Surgeon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.7 of 1861, dated 14 January 1861
850: Papers regarding a proposal made by the Civil Finance Commission for the abolition of the Board of Examiners in the Oriental languages and for the amalgamation of the Office of Registrar of Calcutta University with that of the Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.22 of 1861, dated 12 April 1861
1043: Report by Mr Riddell, late Director General of the Post Office in India, dated 19th April 1861, regarding the proposal for the establishment of a weekly postal communication between England and Bombay, in substitution of the existing arrangement under which four Mails were brought to India every month, namely two to Bombay, and two, by way of Galle, to Madras and Calcutta
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.12 of 1861, dated 28 June 1861; and a letter from H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, to W Grey, Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 19th April 1861