File R 409/1881 - Papers relating to a memorial submitted to the Government of India by the Chiefs of Káthiáwár and the Ráo of Cutch claiming the right to import opium from Málva free of duty
File R 489/1881 - Papers regarding the effect of a late increase of salt duty on local consumption in Madras and Bombay and the hope of considering a possible further reduction in the salt tax
Scope & Content:
File includes a statistical report from the Commissioner of Salt Revenue, Madras, dated 18th January 1881, regarding salt prices and salt consumption
File R 831/1881 - Representation by Mr E Pratt, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 29th October 1881, regarding pension fund subscriptions
Scope & Content:
File includes certificate, dated 2nd October 1874, confirming that Mr E Pratt was admitted to the Bombay Uncovenanted Service Family Pension Fund
File R 925/1881 - Letter to the India Office, and related minute paper, regarding the distribution in India of 25 copies of a report on the progress and condition of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for the year 1880
File R 238/1880 - Minute paper listing Punjab Proceedings for December 1879 which were regarded as being of particular interest
Scope & Content:
Includes an extract from a letter of Rev J M Wade, dated Srinagar, Kashmir, January 26, 1880, to J Muir, regarding the condition of the poor at a time of famine
File R 311/1881 - Enquiry from H W Kolle of Egremont, Tulse Hill, London, for information regarding particulars relating to salary and pensions of officers of the Indian Forest Department
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of an official paper, by the Forest Department in India, showing particulars respecting the selection of candidates for nomination to junior appointments in January 1880
File R 478/1881 - Transmission and receipt of copies of sets of rules for the guidance of the Superintendent, now Deputy Commissioner of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, accompanied with the Southal Police Rules
Scope & Content:
Copies of the sets of rules are not present in the file
File R 1001/1881 - Correspondence on the subject of the imposition of an additional assessment on lands within a certain range of irrigation, together with a copy of a minute by E W Ravenscroft, CSI, dated 31st October 1881, on the subject
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of Bombay Act No.VII of 1879 (an Act to provide for irrigation in the Bombay Presidency) (Government Central Press, Bombay)