Proposal of the King of Oudh [Nasir-ud-din Haidar] to invest 350,000 rupees in establishing a Public Hospital and Medical School at Lucknow, both institutions to be under British control.
Discussions between the King of Oudh [Nasir-ud-din Haidar], his Chief Minister, and the British Resident [Major John Low] regarding the appointment of a successor to the late Captain James Dowling Herbert as Astronomer Royal in Oudh.
Extracts of the Court of Directors' dispatch of 17 Jun 1834, notifying the dismissal of Mordaunt Ricketts from the Company's service, are published in the Calcutta, Madras and Bombay Government Gazettes - the Resident at Lucknow [Lieut Colonel John Low] brings Ricketts' dismissal to the notice of...
The King of Oudh [Nasir-ud-din Haidar] is permitted to add 18 more lakhs to the sum of 33 lakhs already paid by him into the Bengal Treasury as a provision for his wife the Kudsia Begam.
Memorandum by Colonel William Morison, dated 10 Jan 1831, recommending that iron light field artillery should replace the brass artillery now in use in the three Presidency Armies - minute by the Governor General [Lord William Bentinck], dated, 14 Mar 1835, commenting on Morison's proposals, (wit...
Proposal that Bombay and Calcutta should become Free Ports for the China trade - appointment of a Committee for enquiring into the system of customs and transit duties.
Necessity for a more thorough testing of European army officers in the knowledge of native languages - defects in the existing examination system - minute of the Governor General, Lord William Bentinck, dated 19 Mar 1835 (pp 7-12) (includes, on pp 13-18, a printed extract of Bengal Army General O...
Proposal of the Governor General [Lord William Bentinck] that corporal punishment should be abolished in H.M. and the Company's European Regiments in India - he recommends, instead, that a penal company should be established in each Presidency.
Question of the propriety of issuing a Command Allowance to both a Regimental C.O. on extra-regimental duty and to his Deputy in actual charge of the regiment.