Cultivation of cotton in the Southern Mahratta Country
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Consists of correspondence on the following subjects: Extract from a letter from the Revenue Department, Bombay, regarding complaints made by certain Native merchants of Bombay relating to frauds committed in the packing of cotton for shipment from the northern ports to Bombay. Affording facili...
Proceedings connected with a proposition to abolish the allowance of spirits to the midshipmen of the Indian Navy. The proceedings include papers relating to the conduct of Henry R Marriott, Midshipman of the East India Company's receiving ship Hastings.
Papers respecting a communication from the Committee of Bishop Corrie's Grammar School at Madras soliciting on behalf of the institution a sum of money sufficient to secure for it an endowment. The papers include a printed copy of the report of Bishop Corrie's Grammar School for the years 1841-1...
The arrangement adopted in consequence of the proposition for substituting the Indian maund for the garee measure in the Salt Department, with a view to simplifying the transactions of the Salt Department at the Madras Presidency
Proceedings respecting the Government Mahratta schools in the Deccan
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Reports by Captain Candy on the condition of the Government Mahratta schools in the Deccan and Konkan (includes lists of the names of the schoolmasters), and on the village schools in the Poorunder [Purandhar] District. Correspondence on the subject of establishing English schools at Surat. Repor...
Letter from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, No.23, dated 30th March 1844, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, regarding the case of Alexander Bell. The case concerned the sum of 31,000 rupees which the Raja of Satara alleged had been sent to Poona by his predeces...