In addition to the despatches submitted by the Court of Directors, the volumes contain the Board's approvals or amendments and correspondence between the Court and the Board.
These consist of copies of papers on a given subject extracted from the Proceedings of the Indian Governments [India, Bengal, Madras, Bombay etc.] and certain other East India Company Overseas Administrations (eg Penang, St Helena) together with copies of previous overseas correspondence. They we...