Proceedings regarding the road across India from Bombay to Calcutta
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Proceedings consisting of 644 pages of reports, memoranda, and correspondence reporting progress made during the season 1840/41 towards the formation of an easy and practicable Post Road between Midnapore and Nagpur, and the arrangements sanctioned for the prosecution of the work during the seas...
Further Proceedings regarding the road across India from Bombay to Calcutta for the season 1841/42
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Proceedings of Lieutenants Laughton, McLeod and Haines, and of Mr Babbington, on the portion of the Raipore Post Road between Midnapore and the Jonk River, during the season 1841/42, and of the orders issued thereon approving of the past season's work and sanctioning operations for 1842/43; and ...
Proceedings regarding the discovery by the Bombay Police of a system of robbery and plunder extensively carried on for many years in the Island of Bombay by an organised gang of thieves and smugglers
Further Proceedings relating to the gang of thieves and smugglers discovered in the Island of Bombay, and the measures adopted by the Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay for apprehending and bringing to trial those concerned
Request by the Bombay Government that the Senior Magistrate of Police submit special reports of all important events occurring in the Island of Bombay, especially if they embraced questions of a political nature, and in addition to furnish weekly reports of his proceedings in administering the P...
Proceedings relating to the Customs Establishment at the Bombay Presidency implicated in the frauds committed by the Bunder Gang on the Customs revenue; and the dismissal of Customs Officers, Peons, etc., implicated in the systematic smuggling carried on in the Harbour of Bombay
Papers regarding the presence of the Legislative Councillor as the fourth Member of the Council of India at meetings of the Council on important matters connected with the Revenue and Judicial administration
Report by the Aden Committee on the land defences of Aden, with related correspondence. The Committee, consisting of Major W Jacob of the Artillery and Major C W Grant of the Engineers, was ordered to examine all the plans and papers recorded on the subject of the defences of the Peninsula of ...