The item consists of copies and extracts of two Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 15 January and 16 February 1856. The item is the first in a series of twelve items on events in the Persian Gulf during 1855-56. Enclosures to the ...
Proceedings connected with a proposal made by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy [Jamsetji jijibhoy] for the relief of the poorer classes of the Parsee community
Papers regarding Act XVIII of 1843, An Act for the better custody of persons convicted of Thuggee [Thagi] and Dacoity
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The papers include correspondence on the subject of the imprisonment in British jails of prisoners convicted in foreign States; and on Thag and Dacoit prisoners in Oudh, including a report by Lieutenant Colonel Low, Resident at Lucknow, on the trial of Dacoits in confinement in the Lucknow jails...
Rewards to F Troop of Horse Artillery and B Company of the Golundauze Battalion of Artillery for praiseworthy conduct at Secunderabad
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Includes a list of those Native Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers, and old soldiers, entitled to receive the regulated pension for their respective rank
Recommendations of the Superintendent General of Vaccination regarding the improvement of public hygiene in Madras
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Proposal that a first-aid station should be set up on Madras beach to help victims of boating accidents and affording relief to those under suspended animation from drowning.
Favourable reports on the treatment of the patients in the Lunatic Asylum at Madras 1808-09
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Favourable reports on the treatment of the patients in the Lunatic Asylum at Madras - question of the allowances payable to the Superintendent (includes lists of the patients in February and May 1808 giving dates of admittance, with remarks on the nature of their illness etc).
