2952: Letter from the Government of India, Financial Department, regarding the delegation to officials in India of the authority for ordering passages on board the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamers for civil, military and Naval officers
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of the Financial (Expenditure/Miscellaneous) letter received from India, No.249 of 1868, dated 25 September 1868
2970: Letter from the Government of India, Financial Department, forwarding a letter from the Director General of the Post Office of India, proposing that an experienced officer of the English Post Office should be sent to India to report on the working of the three Presidency Post Offices
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of the Financial (Expenditure/Post Office) letter received from India, No.271 of 1868, dated 14 October 1868 (the letter from the Director General of the Post Office of India is not included in the file)
2995: Notification, with connected papers, leaving it optional with young Civil Servants employed in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency to take up either Bengali or Ooryah as the first language of examination
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.193 of 1868, dated 31 December 1868
2996: Correspondence regarding the lack of likelihood of any emigration to Grenada taking place this season [1869] from the Ports of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.2 of 1869, dated 4 January 1869
3012: Further correspondence together with an amended Rule for the utilization of the warm sea water from the distilling apparatus on board emigrant ships
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.10 of 1869, dated 15 January 1869
3145: Correspondence regarding the preparation by Lieutenant Colonel J T Walker, Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, of a Code of Instructions for defining the duties of the Madras Observatory in accordance with the suggestions of Professor Airy, Astronomer Royal
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.58 of 1868, dated 11 April 1868
3293: Correspondence between the Government of India and the Government of Madras regarding the proposed insertion in Charter Parties of a clause which would make the rules for Surgeons, in force on board French vessels, binding on the Commanders of British ships taken up for the French Emigration Service
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public (Emigration) letter received from India, No.10 of 1870, dated 25 January 1870
3403: Correspondence regarding the complaint of the Trustees of the British Museum that no specimen of the meteorite which fell near Multan in October 1868 had reached the Museum
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.89 of 1870, dated 5 August 1870