Letter from Margaret Erskine, Lady Gordon, widow of Sir John Gordon, Bart., to the Nizam of Hyderabad [Nasir-ud-daula], adverting to her husband's past services and requesting some financial provision for herself (with associated correspondence)
Further papers regarding the East India Company's Financial Agency in Canton - their resolution to open their Treasury for the receipt of money for bills on Bengal etc - questions regarding Agency personnel.
Bengal General Order 252 of 1834 which abolished the restrictions on recruiting upper class natives to the Bengal Army, is extended to the Madras Presidency.
Lieutenant Henry Drummond of the 8th Bengal Native Cavalry requests the Court of Directors to be allowed to undertake a mineralogical survey of the mountain districts near the head waters of the Ganges and Jumna (i.e. Kumaon, Garhwal, Sirmur etc.) - question whether European miners should be sent...
Question whether certain Artificers discharged from the Madras Gun Carriage Factory in Aug 1834 should be granted special pensions (includes a list of the Artificers, giving name, age, caste, years of service, character description and state of health, pp 54-55)
Papers regarding a seditious pamphlet written in Hindustani by a Munshi of the 28th Madras Native Infantry and distributed to the Muslim inhabitants of Secunderabad - Madras Government forward a partial translation to London (the translation is on pp 57-77, the proceedings of the Committee of Enq...
Abandonment for the time being of the plan for replacing the Madras troops on the Tenasserim Coast with Bengal troops - HM 62nd Foot to be retransferred to the Madras Military Establishment as from 1 Nov 1835.
Proposal of the Governor General of India [Lord William Bentinck] for the gradual abolition of the Recruit and Pension Boy Establishments of the Madras and Bombay Armies (includes reports from individual regiments of the Madras Army, pp 79-127, observations of certain Madras General and Field Off...