File R 951/1880 - Proceedings of the Government of Madras containing inspection reports of Colonel R H Beddome, Conservator of Forests, with the remarks of the Collectors and the Board of Revenue, as well as the orders of Government thereon
Scope & Content:
Includes inspection reports of the following areas: North Arcot Forest Division; Goomsur forests of the Ganjam District; the Singampatti forests; Tinnevelly Forest Division; Nilgiri plantations; Anamalai forests, South Coimbatore; Nilambur teak plantations; Trichinopoly plantations; Cuddapah Fore...
File R 987/1880 - Letter from Frank Adrian Lodge, Ealing, dated 24th November 1880, applying to become a candidate for the examination for the Indian Forest Service, and enclosing his certificates and references
File R 336/1881 - Supplemental Petition of Gangagari Gosami, the Madathipathy, the Lord of the Monastery of the Mattam at Nadiem Village in the Madras Presidency, appealing against the orders of the Madras Government in the matter of landed estates belonging to him
Scope & Content:
File includes a cutting from The Madras Mail, dated 12th May 1880, regarding the character of the Marquis of Hartington
File R 381/1881 - Reports regarding English students of the First and Second years (1880-1881) at the School of Forestry at Nancy
Scope & Content:
File includes reports of May 1881 showing examination marks given to named students on specific subjects, and notes on their individual characters by the director of the Forestry School at Nancy
File R 511/1881 - Letters regarding the forwarding and receipt of copies of a memorandum, prepared by the Government of India, embodying the substance of several reports on Indian dyes and the dying industry
File R 657/1881 - Correspondence considering the case of Mr Edward Pratt, late Assistant to the Collector of Salt Revenue in the Bombay Presidency, where proceedings were taken against him for offences of misconduct
Scope & Content:
File includes a handritten memorial of Mr Edward Pratt, to the Secretary of State for India, dated 31st August 1881, appealing for a review of the whole of his case where proceedings were taken against him for offences of misconduct
File R 681/1881 - Papers relating to arrangements for the abolition of the entire southern section of the Inland Customs Line, extending from Burhanpur, along the southern frontier of the Berars and through the south-eastern portion of the Central Provinces, to Dhamra, on the Mahánadi
Scope & Content:
File includes correspondence on the salt trade between Orissa and the Central Provinces; and on the Pungah salt manufactured in Cuttack. Also includes a printed copy of Act No. X of 1874, An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Salt