Laws and Acts of Parliament relating to India and the East India Company or affecting the work of the Accountant General's Department. The Acts do not all relate to India, many being Acts concerning general procedure in the United Kingdom for making payments, obtaining receipts and discharges,...
'Orders of Court and Minutes of Committees relating to the Cash Transactions of the East India Company's Accountant's Office'
Scope & Content:
The subjects covered include: Audit (establishment of a home audit as a separate branch of the Accountant-General's department, 1815); Annuities and pensions and establishments (Lists to be supplied to the Accountant-General by the Clerk to the Committee of buying and warehouses 1815); Bonds and...
Copies of minutes and letters of the Secret Department of the Company's Treasury
Scope & Content:
These volumes give a good overview of the financial affairs of the Company during the period 1803-1834. The contents include statements of its cash balances from time to time, its borrowings and lendings, movement of bullion, rates of interest on stock, and purchase of Exchequer bills. There a...
Minutes and Authorities of Committees for Payments by the Accountant General
Scope & Content:
Minutes and reports of Company committees, sometimes in original, giving decisions on cases submitted by the Accountant General which were not covered fully by practice or regulations.
Books of Authority for the issue of pay and pensions, more commonly known as Establishment Books. A separate entry was made for each beneficiary, detailing the authority for the commencement and termination of pay, commencement of pension, leave entitlement periods, rate or rates of entitlemen...
Accountant's Office Orders and Regulations Guard Book
Scope & Content:
The volume includes: Court Minutes about the method of preparation of Court Warrants and the method of keeping the Company's cash account at the Bank of England, 1709; lists of staff who are to 'wait Court' for the purpose of making warrants, c.1815; five lists of all staff of the Accountant Ge...