File R 489/1881 - Papers regarding the effect of a late increase of salt duty on local consumption in Madras and Bombay and the hope of considering a possible further reduction in the salt tax
Scope & Content:
File includes a statistical report from the Commissioner of Salt Revenue, Madras, dated 18th January 1881, regarding salt prices and salt consumption
File R 490/1881 - Government of India paper No.128 of 1881 (dated Simla, 3rd June 1881), with related minute paper, regarding a suggestion that Mr M H Clifford, a trained Forest Officer at Nancy expected to come out to India in December 1881, should remain in Europe for one year to study entomology
File R 492/1881 - Remarks by Mr John Eliot Howard, FRS, of Lord’s Meade, Tottenham, on reports relating to trials of cinchona febrifuge and other preparations in India
File R 494/1881 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India from Jenkin & Phillips, Drug Brokers, dated 2nd July 1881, regarding the transmission of a catalogue regarding 888 bales of cinchona bark
File R 499/1881 - Government of Madras printed papers, and related minute papers, on the subject of the proposed settlement of the Kollegál Taluk in the Coimbatore District
File R 504/1881 - Certificates, dated 5th July 1881, showing results obtained in the analysis of samples of cinchona bark received by Dr B H Paul, Consulting Chemist and Commercial Analyst of the Analytical Laboratory, Westminster
File R 505/1881 - Itemised lists from Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 5th July 1881, regarding the sale of consignments of 400 and 488 bales of cinchona bark per ships Eldorado and Ancora respectively