Act XVIII of 1842, An Act for facilitating preliminary investigations of criminal cases connected with the collection of the Revenue within the Presidency of Bombay
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Proceedings in connection with the subject of conferring on the Revenue Commissioner and his Assistant such magisterial authority as would enable them to prepare for trial, before the constituted tribunals, all cases in which Revenue officers might be accused of offences connected with their off...
Proceedings connected with the survey and assessment of the Southern Mahratta Country, and the proposed arrangements for the constitution of a Special Commission to conduct an investigation into the titles of enamdars
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Includes a statement prepared from a letter forwarded, under date 10th August 1824, by the Commissioner for the Deccan, to the Principal Collector of Dharwar, regarding certain lands and villages in the Southern Mahratta Country whose revenues were supposed to be wholly or partially enjoyed on d...
Proceedings relative to certain measures proposed to be adopted in order to define the tenure on which certain lands on the Island of Bombay denominated as 'Foras lands' or Salt Batty [Batai] grounds were held by individuals
Papers regarding the insubordination and mutinous conduct of certain regiments of the Bengal Army
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The regiments in question were the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, the 64th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, the 3rd and 4th Companies 6th Battalion of Artillery, the 7th Regiment of Light Cavalry, the 69th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, the 4th Troop 1st Brigade of Horse Artill...
Papers regarding the limitation of the period of employment of officers of the Bengal Army in Staff situations
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Includes a list of officers of the Bengal Infantry and Cavalry (not including Major Generals and Regimental Colonels) holding, on the 1st January 1844, detached employment to which they were appointed prior to the 1st January 1839; and a list of officers of the Bengal Infantry and Cavalry (not i...
Memorials from certain officers of the Engineers (Charles Edward Faber, Jasper Higginson Bell, John Ouchterlony, and Charles Cornwallis Johnston) bringing to notice the want of regimental promotion in the Corps of Engineers and the unprecedented supercession of the junior grades of the Corps by ...