Correspondence regarding a request from the Government of Madras for a competent legal opinion in England on certain questions propounded by the Lord Bishop of Madras; and the observations of the Madras Government in explanation of the state of ecclesiastical affairs at the Madras Presidency ref...
Memorial by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Woodburn, Commanding the 25th Regiment Native Infantry, praying that his Corps and the late Light Battalion to the Sind Force may be allowed medals, and to participate in the honorary distinctions granted to part of the Force which served under the...
Minute by Lieutenant Colonel G Jervis, Chief Engineer, reporting on the state of the Corps of Engineers of the Bombay Presidency and the proposed augmentation to the Engineer Corps
Correspondence regarding a new code of military regulations relating to pay and audit compiled by Captain G J Jameson, Deputy Auditor General for the Bombay Presidency
Reports and proceedings relating to the armament of the Horse Artillery in India
Scope & Content:
The papers are concerned with the comparative merits of the different artillery field guns, particularly the 6 pounder and 9 pounder, but also the 12 pounder howitzer and 24 pounder howitzer.
Report from the Military Board on the result of the past years operations of the Gunpowder Manufactory at Madras, which commenced with the manufacture of powder on the 2nd January and closed on the 15th October 1843, with a full account of the proceedings in the Gunpowder Manufactory for the yea...
Reports from Lieutenant Colonel P Montgomerie, Principal Commissary of Ordnance, upon the reform and improvements in the Arsenal of Fort St George, with particular reference to the efficiency of equipment and stores, and of the separation of the Arsenal from the Gun Carriage Manufactory, and on t...
Two letters from Cockerell & Co, London, to J A Doun, Secretary to the Government of India, Calcutta, dated 27th July and 26th September 1844, regarding the loan property of General Paul Avitabile