Laws and Acts of Parliament relating to India and the East India Company or affecting the work of the Accountant General's Department. The Acts do not all relate to India, many being Acts concerning general procedure in the United Kingdom for making payments, obtaining receipts and discharges,...
Copies of minutes and letters of the Secret Department of the Company's Treasury
Scope & Content:
These volumes give a good overview of the financial affairs of the Company during the period 1803-1834. The contents include statements of its cash balances from time to time, its borrowings and lendings, movement of bullion, rates of interest on stock, and purchase of Exchequer bills. There a...
Minutes and Authorities of Committees for Payments by the Accountant General
Scope & Content:
Minutes and reports of Company committees, sometimes in original, giving decisions on cases submitted by the Accountant General which were not covered fully by practice or regulations.
Books of Authority for the issue of pay and pensions, more commonly known as Establishment Books. A separate entry was made for each beneficiary, detailing the authority for the commencement and termination of pay, commencement of pension, leave entitlement periods, rate or rates of entitlemen...
A collection of miscellaneous papers on pay and allowances of the various civil and military services (both Indian and British), rates and conditions of issue of all classes of pensions, the Pay Room establishment and the Accountant General's Department as a whole. Each volume has an index.