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2942: Returns of Tea Gardens in Sylhet for the half-year ending 31st December 1867, with the orders of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.145 of 1868, dated 30 September 1868. The Return includes a list of absentee workers other than convicted deserters; and a list of deceased workers, with date and cause of death.
2983: Report by the Government of Bengal on the numerous desertions that took place among the labourers on the Sylhet Tea Gardens during the first half of the year 1867
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.165 of 1868, dated 20 November 1868
2986: Progress made in the construction of the Cuttack Trunk Road from Calcutta to the borders of the Balasore District at Rajghat, on the Soobunreka [Subarnarekha River]
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.177 of 1868, dated 10 December 1868; and a letter from P Dickens, Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Secretary of the Government of India, Home Department, dated 7th November 1869. The Pu...
2946: Report of the Committee appointed to revise the system of weights and measures for British India, with proposed Bill to regulate the same (Calcutta: 1868)
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.163 of 1868, dated 6 November 1868; the Committee's report; and further related papers, correspondence and memoranda, including a memorandum drawn up by Colonel Richard Strachey, President of the Committee on Weights a...
3056: Request from the Government of Bengal for information regarding the lunatic Charles O'Brien sent to England in 1867 on board the ship King Arthur
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.140 of 1868, dated 22 September 1868; and a letter from H L Harrison, Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, dated 5 September 1868. Charles O'Bri...
3207: Opinion of the Government of India that it is not desirable to discontinue the staff of British Consular Agents at the French ports of embarkation so long as emigration from those ports is maintained
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.95 of 1869, dated 30 November 1869
3274: Copy of a letter from the Registrar of Calcutta University supplying the information required by Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, regarding the interpretation to be placed on the rule of the University as to the age of students on admission
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.108 of 1869, dated 21 December 1869