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2545: Correspondence on the subject of the prevention of syphilitic diseases among European sailors, with a request by the Government of India for information as to the working of the Contagious Diseases Act (27 and 28 Vic., Cap.85) in the United Kingdom
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.141 of 1867, dated 8 August 1867
2669: Correspondence between the Government of India and the Bengal Government regarding Returns of mortality among the tea labourers employed in Kamroop, Chardoar, and Bishnath for the half-year ending 30th June 1867
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.7 of 1868, dated 9 January 1868. The Returns include lists of deceased workers, with date and cause of death; lists of absentee workers other than convicted deserters; and lists of convicted deserters, with dates and det...
2659: Further Report (Part IV) by George Campbell on the Famine in Bengal and Orissa in 1866, with a copy of his letter under cover of which his report was received
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.6 of 1868, dated 7 January 1868. The Report is concerned with the changes in the Executive machinery of Bengal suggested by the experience of the famine, and includes a paper on the famines which affected Bengal in the...
2999: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, recommending the grant of a donation of £2,000 to W W Hunter, of the Bengal Civil Service, in compensation of the losses sustained by him in the publication of his works, the Annals of Rural Bengal and a Dictionary of the non-Aryan languages of India and High Asia, and as a recognition of his distinguished merits
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of the Public letter received from India, No.3 of 1869, dated 7 January 1869
5308: J S Drummond, late Magistrate and Collector of Sarun, to be called on for payment of Rs 1,801-2 for losses in connection with certain charitable endowments in that District (Bunwari Lall's Serai and Hospital Funds)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.84 of 1878, dated 17 October 1878
5323: Request for a reply to Despatch No.108 of 1877 on the question of the procedure adopted by the Government of Madras of addressing the Secretary of State direct under flying seal through the Government of India in cases in which they are required by the rules to address the Government of India and not the Secretary of State
Scope & Content:
Includes Collection 5078: Interdiction of the system adopted by the Government of Madras of addressing the Secretary of State direct under flying seal through the Government of India (contains a copy of Public letter No.108 of 1877, dated 14 December 1877). The collection includes a copy of the ...
Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in the Nilgiri Hills for October, November and December 1866. Reports include lists of those to whom chinchona plants distributed. File also includes letter from Clements Markham, dated 16 Jan 1866, to Revenue Department, Government of Madras, giving re...
2019: Appointment of R Lloyd to be Auditor of the Accounts of the Emigration Department at Calcutta for the Colony of British Guiana
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.85 of 1865, dated 14 November 1865; and a letter from S C Bayley, Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, dated 11th October 1865
