‘Proceedings adopted in consequence of the depredations committed by the Joasmee Pirates in the Persian Gulph’, Vol 6
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This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay [Mumbai] and Bengal. It is the sixth in a series of eight items on the subject of the alleged piracy of the Joasmee [al-Qawasim, also referred to as J...
Drainage of the Island of Bombay: proceedings connected with certain improvements in order to avert the dreadful effects which so frequently occurred from cholera and other epidemic diseases
Proceedings relating to the powers of administering Courts Martial possessed by Major General Sir Charles Napier in Sind, and also as to the military command over the Bombay troops in that Province
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Includes a printed copy of 7 Victoria, Cap 18. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Power of appointing, convening, and confirming the Sentences of Courts-martial in the East Indies [6th June 1844]
Annual Report on the condition of the districts under the Superintendence of Lieutenant Colonel C Ovans, Resident at Satara, for the years 1841/1842 and 1842/1843, with related correspondence
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The reports include a general statement of the boys, and the progress made by them, in the English and Mahratta schools, which gives the names of the boys, their caste, age, date of admission and studies
Claims to pensions arising out of casualties which occurred in Scindia's Reformed Contingent while employed on the Saugor Frontier
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Includes the following lists of casualties relating to the Gwalior Contingent: Roll of heirs of sepoys of the Infantry Regiment of Sindiah's Contingent, who had been killed in action during the employment of the Contingent in Bundelkhand and on the Saugor Frontier, who had been admitted to the ...
Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
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Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
