Petition from the Native merchants of Bombay for a refund of the difference between the new and the old passes for the free transit of opium from Malwa to Bombay, on the grounds that the price of the passes was enhanced without due notice, with proceedings of the Government of India connected wi...
Refusal to extend the provisions of the Sugar Act XXXII of 1836 to Penang (Prince of Wales Island) and Province Wellesley, excluding those Provinces from the benefit of importing sugar into the United Kingdom at the reduced rate of duty
Claims preferred by the relatives of Officers killed in the retreat from Kabul to the grant of the gratuity for wounds received in action by the deceased
Scope & Content:
Included are papers relating to the cases of Lieutenant Montgomery of the 60th Native Infantry, Captain R S Burnett of the 54th Regiment of Native Infantry, and Lieutenant H Y Bazett of the Bengal Cavalry.
Memorials of certain Officers against the principle adopted in re-officering the Regiments destroyed in Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The collection contains memorials to the Court of Directors of the East India Company from Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Frederick C Maitland, Lieutenant John Slater, and Lieutenant Edward Sutherland Garstin, all of the 5th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry. Also includes a list of the Office...
Correspondence giving the sentiments of the Board of Revenue and of the Collectors at Negapatam (Tanjore), Chingleput, Nellore, North Arcot, Cuddalore (South Arcot), Bellary, and Trichinopoly on the suggestion of the Judges of the Foujdaree Udalat [Faujdari Adalat] for fixing a higher rate of ta...
Further proceedings on the suggestions submitted by Lieutenant MacPherson respecting the indulgences to be allowed to Dora Bissoye, a prisoner in the Hill Fort at Gooty
Correspondence reporting on the measures adopted for introducing into the Provinces the saul and sissoo timber trees. Included is correspondence between the Government of Madras and Dr Wallich, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Leases proposed to be granted to James Ouchterlony of the firm of Ouchterlony & Co of Madras, and others, for the lands which they might occupy in the Salem District for the purpose of coffee cultivation, to be held rent free for the first five years
Further proceedings on the Sugar Acts XV of 1839 and XI of 1842 with respect to the importation of foreign sugar into the Madras Presidency by land from any foreign State or settlement