Claim of Mahadajee punt Sathay Nisbut Dhondo Vishnoo Aptay for the continuance to him of an annual allowance formerly enjoyed by him from the late Chief of Sawunt Waree, and the bestowal of the situation of Munsif of Malwan Taluka
Request from the Bengal Government that maps and field books deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer at Bombay by Major Jervis, late of the Bombay Engineers, on the occasion of the dissolution of the Geographical Committee at the Bombay Presidency, may be returned to the office of the Surgeon General of India at Calcutta from which they were originally borrowed
Correspondence on the subject of precautions against the sale of certificates of fitness for emigration to unfit persons; and the claim of Dr R M Thomson, Marine Surgeon, to remuneration for the examination of candidates for emigration
Provision by the Commanders of emigrant vessels proceeding to Mauritius of certain food for consumption during bad and stormy weather when food cannot be cooked
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Also included is correspondence from Saunders, May, Sarkies & Co, who had chartered the vessel emigrant Rohomany, requesting the assistance of government in preventing emigrants from abandoning the voyage or running away
Correspondence regarding arrangements for the payment at Calcutta of a moiety of the passage money of returned emigrants from Mauritius; and arrangements for the detention on board the ships Rambler and William of returned emigrants from Mauritius until the grant of the necessary certificate as to their number and treatment
Representation by F S Henley relating to the difficulty of procuring the requisite proportion of female emigrants to Mauritius for his ships Candahar and Sir Charles Napier
Correspondence intimating to the Bombay Government that children in arms were not reckoned emigrants to Mauritius, but were mentioned in the mother's certificate