File S&C 46/1880 - Request of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere to be furnished with copies of parliamentary papers and other important documents on irrigation in India
File S&C 47/1880 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India from the Secretary to the Government of India, dated 19th December 1879, forwarding, for transmission to the President of the Royal Engineering College, Copper’s Hill, two copies of the Manual of Geology
File S&C 49/1880 - Papers regarding the forwarding on of an indent, in duplicate, for a press and materials required for lithographing a daily report and chart of the Bay of Bengal in connection with the storm warning system
File S&C 50/1880 - Letter from the Surveyor General of India, dated 6th November 1879, and related correspondence, regarding the retention in England of “Mr Roberts” tide calculation machine constructed for the Indian Government
File S&C 51/1880 - Letter from the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, together with its accompanying memorial from Lalshaw Prannath and others praying for a refund of octroi duty on dyes alleged to have been paid by them subsequent to the issue of orders of the Government of India dated 6th November 1868
File S&C 52/1880 - Bill to regulate the levy of town duties and tolls in municipalities in British India
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Town-duties and Tolls Act of 1879, with a statement of Objects and Reasons, together with the text of a speech, on the subject of town duties and tolls bill, delivered by Sir John Strachey before the Council of the Governor General of India on the 14th November 1879
File S&C 53/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers on the subject of Trade of Ladakh in 1878 and a statistical table showing trade of Ladakh for three years from 1876 to 1878