"Proposals as a basis for settling an Agreement between the Government and the Company, taking the Committee of Treasury's Plan for a Model, with such Amendments as I think necessary".
Copies of correspondence between the President and Council of Fort St George to the Select Committee at Fort William, dated 16 February and 6 March 1759.
"Extracts from the Bengal Consultations relative to the Salt Trade".
Scope & Content:
A Committee of Revenue met to discuss the conditions under which the trade in salt should be conducted and also approved the advertisement for the rental of the salt concessions. Two copies.
These comprise criticism of the corruption seen hitherto in the trade and announcements of the new agreements. Five extracts are taken from General Letters to Bengal, the other extracts are from letters from Warren Hastings and a Nawab (presumably of Bengal).
Notes, draft observations and copies of motions relating to the inland trade.
Scope & Content:
Information on its value, history and the authority of the Governor and Council to regulate the trade. Most of the documents relate to the salt trade and the Salt Society, but there are also references to the other major trades.
Evidence and sentence of the Regimental Courts Martial held aboard the ship Kent.
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Trial of Thomas MacDermott, Sentinel, for stealing a case of liquor and of being drunk, and of Francis Grosvenor, Sentinel, for disobedience of orders, drunkenness and abusing the boatswain.
Copy of the court martial sentences upon Lieutenant William Vertue, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Fletcher, Ensign William North and Lieutenant and Captain John Stainforth.
Scope & Content:
Vertue, tried for desertion and disobedience to orders, Fletcher and North tried for mutiny, and Stainforth tried for breach of the first part of the third article of the second section of the Articles of War. The trials of the four officers were held between 15 July and 26 September 1766. Four c...
Extracts from consultations undertaken at Fort William and a letter from the Council at Fort William to the Court of Directors between 15 November 1764 and 11 December 1766.
Scope & Content:
The primary topics are the impending departure and remuneration of Commodore Tinker and his squadron and Clive's legacy from Mir Jafar with his intention to use it to create a fund for disabled solders and their families. Some other subjects are also briefly discussed. There is no indication of...