Proceedings connected with a proposal made by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy [Jamsetji jijibhoy] for the relief of the poorer classes of the Parsee community
Proceedings connected with a proposition to abolish the allowance of spirits to the midshipmen of the Indian Navy. The proceedings include papers relating to the conduct of Henry R Marriott, Midshipman of the East India Company's receiving ship Hastings.
Cultivation of cotton in the Southern Mahratta Country
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Consists of correspondence on the following subjects: Extract from a letter from the Revenue Department, Bombay, regarding complaints made by certain Native merchants of Bombay relating to frauds committed in the packing of cotton for shipment from the northern ports to Bombay. Affording facili...
Letter from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, No.23, dated 30th March 1844, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, regarding the case of Alexander Bell. The case concerned the sum of 31,000 rupees which the Raja of Satara alleged had been sent to Poona by his predeces...
Papers on the subject of the nomination of a member of the Civil Service to be Secretary and Treasurer to the proposed Corporate Bank of Madras, and the extent of remuneration he might receive from Government; and Messrs H V Bayley and J H Young, late Deputy Secretaries to Government, permitted ...
Papers regarding the transfer of the Province of Cutch from the Bombay Presidency to the charge of the Government of Sind
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The papers include correspondence on the subject of combining political and military authority in Cutch, and the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel H S Roberts of the 20th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry as the Political Agent. Also included is a Political Department letter from the East India ...
Papers respecting a communication from the Committee of Bishop Corrie's Grammar School at Madras soliciting on behalf of the institution a sum of money sufficient to secure for it an endowment. The papers include a printed copy of the report of Bishop Corrie's Grammar School for the years 1841-1...
Papers on the subject of public instruction in the Madras Presidency. The papers are largely concerned with Madras University, and include the 2nd Annual Report from the Governor of the Madras University for 1843.
Papers respecting the 47th Regiment of Native Infantry
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The papers detail the measures taken to supply the Government of Bombay with two Native Regiments of the Madras Army for employment in Sind, the measures adopted by the Government of Madras for the embarkation, etc, of the 47th Regiment Native Infantry, the question as to whether the men of the ...
Proceedings respecting the Government Mahratta schools in the Deccan
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Reports by Captain Candy on the condition of the Government Mahratta schools in the Deccan and Konkan (includes lists of the names of the schoolmasters), and on the village schools in the Poorunder [Purandhar] District. Correspondence on the subject of establishing English schools at Surat. Repor...