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2437: Further papers relating to the famine in the Lower Provinces of Bengal, in continuation of the 30th Narrative of the Government of Bengal
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.81 of 1867, dated 10 May 1867. Included among the papers is a report by W W Hunter, Officiating Inspector of Schools, on the effect of the recent famine upon the schools and educational institutions in the South Wester...
2559: Report from the Commissioner of Cuttack on the misconduct of the Police in taking unauthorised tolls on boats passing up and down the Matai River
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.176 of 1867, dated 1 October 1867; and a letter from T E Ravenshaw, Officiating Commissioner, Cuttack Division, to the Secretary, Board of Revenue, Lower Provinces, dated 5th August 1867. Ravenshaw's letter also menti...
2609: Suggestions by the Director General of the Post Office of India on the subject of the new contract for the Indian Mail Service
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Separate Revenue/Post Office) letter received from India, No.21 of 1867, dated 15 October 1867; and a letter from A M Monteath, Director General of the Post Office of India, to E H Lushington, Secretary to the Government of India, Financial Dep...
2651: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, requesting that 30 new Civil Servants be added to the Bengal Establishment in 1870
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.196 of 1867, dated 19 November 1867; and an Indent Statement for the Covenanted Civil Service
2762: Sanction of an Estimate of the probable cost of completing Major Tennant's observations in Masulipatam of the Solar Eclipse expected to take place in August 1868
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Financial (Expenditure/Education, Science, and Art) letter received from India, No.120 of 1868, dated 25 April 1868
2794: Bengal Special Narrative, No.5 of 1867, dated 9th November 1867, regarding samples of chinchona [cinchona] bark from the Government Plantation at Darjeeling for analysis by Mr Howard and their market value ascertained in London
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.201 of 1867, dated 25 November 1867
2827: Application from the Government of the North Western Provinces for the retention, for a further period of one year, of the services of F Williams, Commissioner of the Meerut Division
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.85 of 1868, dated 19 June 1868; and a letter from R Simpson, Secretary to the Government of the North Western Provinces, to E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, dated 3rd June 1868
2930: Half-yearly Return of Tea Gardens in Cachar by C Marshall, Protector of the Labourers in Cachar, for the period ending 31st December 1867, and a Resolution of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.110 of 1868, dated 15 August 1868