152: Correspondence showing that the Government of India had agreed to the proposal of the Mauritius Government for the execution in India of contracts for labour to be performed in the colony, and authorised its adoption in anticipation of the sanction of the Legislature
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.51 of 1859, dated 23 April 1859. Also included are: Papers on the rates of wages and rations for labourers. A copy of Ordinance No.22 of 1857, enacted by the Governor of Mauritius, to amend the law relative to the en...
234: Correspondence regarding E L Ellis of the Bengal Civil Service, who had been declared insane
Scope & Content:
The correspondence concerns the removal of Mr Ellis to the Lunatic Asylum at Bhowanipore, and then to England on board the ship Hougomont. The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.21 of 1859, dated 14 February 1859 No.41 of 1859, dated 25 March 18...
265: Papers regarding the allowance for house rent, which had previously been passed to the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, notwithstanding that His Honour was furnished with a rent free residence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.100 of 1859, dated 20 September 1859. Also included in the papers are the following collections of the Board of Control: No.152753 (India Public, draft 941 of 1854) on the appointment of the Honourable Frederick James...
290: Correspondence with the Government of the North Western Provinces regarding the rewards bestowed on Rajah Teekum Singh of Mursan in the Aligarh District, and on Rao Jeswunt Roy of Luckna [Lakhna] in the Etawah District, for their good services and loyal conduct during the mutinies [Indian Mutiny]
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.114 of 1859, dated 28 October 1859
298: Correspondence regarding the extra expense for conveying the mails to Rangoon and Moulmein in October 1857, and intimating that the same had not been demanded from the Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Company
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.14 of 1859, dated 15 July 1859
302: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the General Department (Miscellaneous subjects), for the 2nd Quarter of 1858. Also includes an extract from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the General Department (Miscellaneous subjects), for the 3rd Quarter of 1857.
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page, a table of contents, and an extract from the Narrative. Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the General Department (Miscellaneous subjects), for the 2nd Quarter of 185...
315: Extracts from the Public Narrative of the Straits Settlements for the 2nd Quarter of 1858
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a cover sheet, and an extract from the Narrative, dated 1st August (No.2) 1859: Coll 1, Transportation of 11 convicts from Madras, April 1858 to August 1859. Coll 2, Letter from E A Blundell, Governor of the...
344: Papers regarding the mode of conducting correspondence between the Home and Indian Governments, and the better regulation of the system of record and correspondence in India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.141 of 1859, dated 15 December 1859. The papers are concerned with the method of recording and reporting the Proceedings of the Indian Governments.
454: Communications from the Governments of Bengal and the North Western Provinces showing the savings effected by dispensing with the Abstract of Proceedings of the Board of Revenue under those Governments
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.23 of 1860, dated 5 March 1860
453: Reports from the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, from Dr Thomas Thomson, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, and from Dr W Jameson, Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in the North Western Provinces, regarding the measures to be taken preparatory to the arrival of Cinchona in India, and the localities to be selected for its cultivation
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.4 of 1860, dated 9 January 1860. The collection also includes a memorandum by Dr D Brandis, Superintendent of Forests in Pegu, Tenasserim and Martaban, on the suitability of the mountain tracts of those Provinces for t...