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5473: Stoppage of freight payable to the owners of the Sylhet, a British vessel that conveyed return emigrants to Calcutta from Demerara - occurrence of grave irregularities on board the Sylhet during her voyage from Demerara to Calcutta - occurrence of certain irregularities in connection with the equipment and the voyage from Demerara to Calcutta of the Lightning with return emigrants
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.7 of 1879, dated 24 April 1879; a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.4 of 1879, dated 21 March 1879; and a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.3 of 1879, dated 14 March 1879
1771: Correspondence regarding a scheme of vaccine operations in the Punjab
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.63 of 1864, dated 29 September 1864, reporting the appointment of Assistant Surgeon A M Garden to be Superintendent of Vaccination in the Punjab.
Salary claim by J Broughton, Chemist to the Government Cinchona plantations
Scope & Content:
J Broughton submits a claim for arrears of pay, on the grounds that he was delayed in taking up his duties as Chemist because he contracted smallpox and was in quarantine. Authorised.
2155: Papers relating to the introduction into India of a system of dry earth sewage proposed by the Revd H Moule, and to a proposition for the grant to that gentleman of £500 as a reward
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.31 of 1866, dated 14 June 1866
247: Copy of Act XXI of 1859, passed by the Legislative Council of India on the 3rd September 1859, to provide for the exercise of certain powers by the Governor General during his absence from the Council, together with the Minutes and Resolution
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.94 of 1859, dated 7 September 1859
330: Copy of a letter from the Government of the North Western Provinces, with enclosure, showing the result of the measures which had been taken for disarming the Doab, and the districts north of the Ganges
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.139 of 1859, dated 3 December 1859. The enclosure is a tabular statement of arms surrendered from commencement of disarming operations up to 30th June 1859 in the North Western Provinces (Goruckpore [Gorakhpur], Agra, ...
593: Report by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, on the communication from the Assistant Secretary of the London Post Office regarding the registration of letters passing between India and certain Colonies and Foreign countries
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.12 of 1860, dated 21 July 1860
1049: Request by the Asiatic Society of Bengal for a reconsideration of the order issued by Her Majesty's Government directing the discontinuance of the series of Volumes which had been for some years past in course of publication containing Classified Catalogues of the Zoological Collections in the late India House Museum
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1861, dated 14 June 1861; and a letter from the Honorary Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, to the Secretary of State for India, dated the 1st June 1861
