Eastern Settlements: papers on the question of the sale of Government lands in full property beyond the limits of the towns of Singapore and Penang, and in Province Wellesley; also in regard to the limits proposed to be fixed for the town of Singapore; and on the subject of the land tenure in Ma...
Papers regarding the system proposed for the study of the native Indian languages by junior civil servants preparatory to their employment in the Public Service
Approval of the Government of India of a Rule proposed to be laid down on the equity side of the Supreme Court at Madras for the protection of the estates of infants
Reports of the theft of timber belonging to British subjects, and correspondence regarding the question of attaching a rope or chain to a rock contiguous to the Burmese bank of the Salween river for the convenience of timber merchants in collecting floating timber. Correspondence regarding the re...
Papers regarding an application from the Madras Government for permission to confer distinctions extra to those of the "Order of British India" and of the "Order of Merit" on certain native officers of the Madras Gun Lascars
Grant of honourary distinctions to the following Corps of the Madras Army for services in China: C Troop, Horse Artillery; B & C Companies 2nd Battalion and D Company 3rd Battalion of Foot Artillery; A, B & F Companies of Sappers and Miners; Flank Companies, 41st Regiment of Native Infan...
China Expedition: confirmation of two General Orders by Major General Lord Saltoun, Commanding the land forces in China, placing the services of certain officers at the disposal of Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
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The officers were Captain Clement Edwards, Her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish; Captain T M Edwards, Her Majesty's 98th Regiment; Lieutenant De Havilland, Her Majesty's 55th Regiment; Lieutenant Sargent, Her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish; Captain D Bamfield, 56th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry.
Correspondence regarding the appointment of Captain William Erskine Baker of the Engineers to make a minute and accurate survey of the canals and water courses in Sind, with lists of the surveying and astronomical instruments required by him
Correspondence reporting that with the view of improving the fort of Khytul [Kaithal], Government had sanctioned, at the recommendation of the Commander in Chief, the removal of certain buildings and trees within and without the Fort, and drawing attention to the expediency of increasing the dep...