‘Reporting the intention of the Imaum of Muscat to send by Cap Cogan two Horses as a present to the Chairman of the Hon’ble the Court of Directors’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul in the Dominion of the Imaum [Im...
Correspondence relating to officers holding responsible situations under Government in the Straits Settlements, being engaged in agricultural pursuits, with a view to commercial profit; and the removal of Major James Low, Assistant Resident at Singapore, and James William Salmond, Resident Counc...
Papers regarding Act I of 1844, An Act for securing certain immunities and privileges to His Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic, His Family and Retinue
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of the Act, and lists of the male and female relations, and the principal officers, of the Nabob who were to be exempted from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Commissioners for the recovery of small debts
Papers regarding Act III of 1844, An Act for legalizing the infliction of corporal punishment in cases of petty larceny generally, and when committed by offenders of tender age
Papers regarding Act IV of 1844, An Act for repealing Regulation IX of 1808 of the Bengal Code
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of the Act, and correspondence regarding the cases of two men sentenced to transportation for life for not surrendering themselves within the period notified after having been convicted of a dacoity committed at Rangpur in 1841
Proposal for the discontinuance of the Government lotteries and institution of a wheel tax
Scope & Content:
Includes a statement showing the average amount of disbursements made on account of Municipal improvements in the town of Calcutta, and charged to the Lottery Fund, from the year 1832/33 to 1841/42
Printed copy of Act VI of 1844, An Act for abolishing the levy of transit or inland customs duties, for revising the duties on imports and exports by sea, and for determining the price at which salt shall be sold for home consumption within the territories subject to the Government of Fort St Ge...
