F. A. Leete. IFS - 1. Permission to take up War Work. 2. Deputation to America, Canada to report on Forest Engineering Methods
Scope & Content:
Papers dealing with appointment of Mr Frederick Alexander Leete, Indian Forest Service be granted six month deputation to United States and Canada to report on Forest Engineering; with his salary equivalent to that of Conservator of Forests, second grade.
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)
File S&C 344/1880 - Letter of Trϋbner & Co., American, European and Oriental Literary Agency, Ludgate Hill, London, dated 13th March 1880, forwarding a copy of each of the two works for patronage entitled Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers, by Dr Muir, and Selections from the Koran, by E W Lane, revised by S L Poole
Scope & Content:
The two forwarded works are not present in the file