Extract from the Minutes of a consultation held on 14 July 1766.
Scope & Content:
A resolution was agreed that the warrant for Sir Robert Fletcher's court martial should issue from the Board not from Clive, lest Clive should be accused of prejudice against Fletcher.
Extracts from the Minutes of meetings of the General Court between 21 December 1757 and 17 December 1760
Scope & Content:
The minutes detail votes of thanks to Clive and others, news of further uprisings in Bengal and investigations into money granted by Mir Jafar to the Company and its servants.
Copy of a minute made in Committee by W.B. Sumner on 20 December 1765.
Scope & Content:
Sumner was replying to Clive's observations about the charges in the collection of the revenues of the Calcutta lands. Includes a statement of the charges between 1762 and 1764.
Text of Clive's answer to a minute made by John Johnstone.
Scope & Content:
The cover is marked "Duplicate" in the same hand that has ascribed the date, however the text has been considerably amended in the same had as the original writer. While leaving some parts of Johnstone's minutes to be discussed in Committee, Clive answers the parts which refer to the powers of th...