File R 437/1880 - Request from Dadabhai Naoroji to be furnished with statistical information regarding the agricultural, mining and manufacturing produce of India, with a summary similar to the one which he had prepared for the Punjab
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Includes a memorandum by F C Danvers, Revenue Department, dated 4th January 1879, on the subject of the gross value of the agricultural produce of India
File R 476/1880 - Papers regarding the revised survey settlements in the districts of the Bombay Presidency
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Includes a copy of the report of the Commission appointed in India to inquire into the causes of the riots which took place in the year 1875, in the Poona and Ahmednagar Districts of the Bombay Presidency (London: HMSO, 1878) [East India (Deccan Riots Commission)]
File R 912/1880 - Enquiry from Michael Andrews, Secretary of the Flax Supply Association, Belfast, regarding the cultivation of flax in India
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Includes a copy of the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Flax Supply Association for the improvement of the culture of flax in Ireland, and the dissemination of information relative to the production and supply of flax, for the year ending 31st December 1879 (Belfast, 1880)
File R 607/1881 - Government of India printed papers, and related minute papers, regarding the extension of the Kharaghora salt works
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File includes copy of a letter addressed to the Bombay Government, dated 29th July 1881, sanctioning the extension of the Kharaghora salt works and disabusing that Government of its notions as to the course of policy pursued by the Government of India in respect of the salt monopoly
File R 783/1881 - Papers relating to the question of utilizing surplus income from wards’ estates to fund agricultural improvements
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File includes a copy of Government of India Revenue and Agricultural Department Resolution, dated 30th August 1881, regarding Agricultural improvements in estates under the Court of Wards
File R 820/1881 - Papers on the subject of legislation relating to forests in the Madras Presidency
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File includes Despatch No.20 from the Government of India, dated 10th October 1881, communicating remarks regarding the Forest Act proposed to be introduced into the Madras Presidency, and to which the Governor General is unable to give his consent
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
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The names of the Leadsmen apprentices were Herbert Valentine Allen, E J A Shaw, R Adams Hopkins and A W J Turner
File R,S&C 60/1882 - Collection of reports covering Bombay confidential proceedings for November 1881
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Agreement with the salt-producing states of Kathiawar regarding the salt preservative lime Relative to the British Chouth (one fourth of the assesment) on the land revenue of Cambay Forest rights of Inamdars and hereditory District Officers in Belgaum and Dharwar
R&S 2677/1915 - Reports of the proceedings of the Colonial Prize Courts held at Malta, Singapore, Zanzibar and Jamaica in 1915
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The reports concern the following vessels: At Zanzibar, the dhow "43/15", two lighters named Gema and Ulaya, S.S. Troldfos, the lighter Gerhard, the lighter Ernst, the lighter Hans, the lighter Simba, the dhow "R 27", the dhow "B 91", the dhow "B 13", the dhow "D 169", the dhow "B 9", the dhow...