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1620: Special Narrative No.1 of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 5th January 1864, transmitting letters of congratulation from the Mahomedan Community of Calcutta and its vicinity to Her Majesty the Queen and to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [Prince Albert Edward and Princess Alexandra of Denmark] on the occasion of their marriage, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.3 of 1864, dated 7 January 1864. The collection contains copies of the two Addresses; and a copy of the proceedings of a General Meeting of the Mahomedan Community of Calcutta and Vicinity, assembled for the purpose of...
1653: Papers on the question of whether it was necessary to retain Persian as one of the languages of examination for Junior Civil Servants attached to the North Western Provinces, the Punjab and Oudh
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.12 of 1864, dated 20 February 1864. The collection contains correspondence from Government officials in India regarding the Indian languages best suited to the duties of government officials in the North Western Provin...
1977: Letters from the Secretary to the Bengal Chamber of Commerce complaining of the unnecessary detention at Galle of Mail Steamers on their way to Calcutta
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.10 of 1865, dated 3 August 1865
1985: Special Narrative No.3 of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 26 April 1865, with enclosures, relative to the preparation of an Annual Return of publications in the Bengali and Sanskrit languages in accordance with the instructions contained in the Secretary of State for India's Despatch, No.55 of 1863, dated 24th July 1863
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.46 of 1865, dated 14 June 1865 No.61 of 1865, dated 9 August 1865 Included in the collection is a Tabular Statement of Native Books and Pamphlets issued from the Vernacular Presses in Bengal, embracing publi...
2012: Special Narrative No.1 of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 8th April 1865, with enclosures, regarding the engagement of a passage to England for eleven insane patients on board the ship Devonshire
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1865, dated 1 May 1865. The names of the patients were Charles Fairbairn (alias Theodore Pennington), Edward Dunn, Charlotte Jones, Charlotte Gore, Agnes Barber, Annie Shuldham, Mary Jacobi, Lydia Rees, Charlotte...
2128: Report by the President of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal on the subject of the great mortality which occurred on board certain ships conveying emigrants from Calcutta to British Guiana and Trinidad in 1864-1865, together with a copy of the connected correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.20 of 1866, dated 27 Mar 1866. The ships concerned were Athletœ, Clarence, Earl Russell, Golden South, Ganges, Fusilier, and Newcastle. The report concluded that the mortality was largely due to a fatal and infectiou...
2287: Report by A M Monteath, Officiating Director General of the Post Office of India, regarding the landing of the Mails at Bombay and the expediency of substituting Postal for Naval Agents in order to secure the sorting of Mails on board
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.18 of 1866, dated 1 December 1866; and a letter from A M Monteath, Officiating Director General of the Post Office of India, to E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 24th October 1866
2351: Report from the Government of Bengal on the proposal to restrict the sale of waste lands in Assam to lots within easy access of the Courts of the Province, and within reach of protection from attacks by frontier tribes
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.5 of 1867, dated 4 February 1867
2415: Appointment of William Grey to be Lieutenant Governor of the Bengal Division of the Presidency of Fort William, in succession to Sir Cecil Beadon who resigned
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.74 of 1867, dated 23 April 1867; and a letter from E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, to the Hon'ble W Grey, dated 23rd April 1867
2420: Report by R C Money, Deputy Commissioner of Maunbhoom, on the operations undertaken for the relief of distress caused by famine in that District during the past year, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.72 of 1867, dated 23 April 1867. Also included is a communication from the Government of Bengal reporting the instructions issued to the Commissioner of Cuttack, authorising the publication by him of a Notification for...