File S&C 1/1880 - Correspondence and related minute papers on the question of bills submitted by Mr W W Hunter for Mr Roper Lethbridge on account of his work for the Imperial Gazetteer of India, traveling expenses and the cost of living in London
File S&C 3/1880 - Correspondence on the subject of the employment of non-British vessels for the conveyance of Government cargo to India
Scope & Content:
File includes a specimen copy of a (blank) Tender for Freight and Conveyance of Stores, with a description of the 21 Conditions for Freight of Stores attached to the tender
File S&C 5/1880 - Minute papers regarding the transmission of copies of the first three volumes of translations of the “Sacred Books of the East” for presentation to the University of Madras
File S&C 6/1880 - Minute paper noting statistics, from the Assam Trade Report for 1878-79, on the trade of Assam with countries and tribes beyond the border
Scope & Content:
The Assam Trade Report for 1878-79 is not present in the file
File S&C 7/1880 - Correspondence referring to an enquiry made by the School of Industry at Jubbulpore as to the disposal of two carpets at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, together with answers to queries and observations upon the account rendered by the Royal Commission of the Paris Exhibition
File S&C 9/1880 - Letter from the International Exhibitions Offices, 1 Castle Street, Holborn, London, dated 31st December 1879, with Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers, regarding a form to be completed in respect of exhibits to be sent forward, in the name of the Secretary of State for India, to the Berlin Fishery Exhibition to be opened on 20th April 1880