File S&C 1398/1880 - Report by the Board of Trade of the loss of the merchant ship Bay of Biscay which left Rangoon with a cargo of rice on the 21st November 1879, and requesting information on what steps had been taken with regard to a similar case of the ship Essex
File S&C 1429/1880 - Papers on the subject of the effect of the Merchant Shipping Law in India, Act XIII of 1878, on the charge of misconduct against John Higgins, late Master of the ship Drumclog
File S&C 1096/1880 - Covering letter of Trübner & Co, London, forwarding copies of various census reports as ordered and only one copy of the French census
File S&C 1165/1880 - Government of India Department of Finance and Commerce covering letter, dated 14th September 1880, forwarding the 'Administration Report of the Commissioners for making improvements in the port of Calcutta for the year 1879-80'
Scope & Content:
File includes Statistics and Commerce Department notes on the financial position of the Calcutta Port Trust (the Administration Report of the Commissioners is not present in the file)
File S&C 1431/1880 - Papers regarding the registration of pilgrims to Mecca
Scope & Content:
Includes a copy of Orders in Council for the Regulation of Consular Jurisdiction in the Dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, dated December 12, 1873, July 7, 1874, May 13, 1875, October 26, 1875, and February 5, 1876 (London: 1876)
File S&C 483/1880 - Correspondence and statements relating to the wreck and cargo of the ship ss. Penguin
Scope & Content:
File includes statements certain salvaged cargo items from wreck of the ship ss. Penguin, together with a Law Report of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, from The Times of 1st March 1880, on the salvage of the Vortigern, a steamship belonging to Liverpool
File S&C 175/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding certain nominated Leadsmen apprentices in the Bengal Pilot Service who were certified by the Medical Board as fit for service
Scope & Content:
The names of the Leadsmen apprentices were Herbert Valentine Allen, E J A Shaw, R Adams Hopkins and A W J Turner
File S&C 18/1880 - Request of Mr A Burrell, 57 Clapham Road, Clapham, for a copy of a report, made by Mr Pigou in 1834 to the East India Company, relating the trade in tea with China