File S&C 700/1880 - Application of Mr W Griggs, “The Photo-Lithographic Establishment,” Peckham, for a list of India Office books on sale with sale price and terms, for the purposes of publication
Scope & Content:
File includes a list of books on sale by agents on behalf of the India Office
File S&C 295/1880 - Papers relating to the case of the of the steam ship Penguin, a vessel that was wrecked in the Red Sea in November 1879
Scope & Content:
File includes letters from the Political Resident at Aden, dated 2nd, 16th and 23rd January 1880, reporting on operations to salvage the cargo of the Penguin, together with statements listing cargo items saved from the vessel
File 710 Medical education in Bihar and Orissa - Reorganisation of Temple Medical School, Patna and Medical School Cuttack - Staffing of Patna Medical College
File R 431/1881 - Papers on the subject of the memorial of Bhagwándás Haridás Márwádi relative to a loss alleged to have been sustained by him in the toll contract of the Sutkátti toll bar in the Belgaum Collectorate for the year 1876-77
Scope & Content:
File includes a sketch map (scale 4 miles to 1 inch) showing the position of the new road from Shankeshwar viâ Gád Inglaz and Azra to meet the Vengurla (Vingorla) Road, together with a memorandum showing the receipts and expenditure on account of the Toll Bár at Sutguth for the year 1876-77 (the ...
File S&C 52/1880 - Bill to regulate the levy of town duties and tolls in municipalities in British India
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Town-duties and Tolls Act of 1879, with a statement of Objects and Reasons, together with the text of a speech, on the subject of town duties and tolls bill, delivered by Sir John Strachey before the Council of the Governor General of India on the 14th November 1879
File S&C 514/1880 - Nomination of Mr P N Bose to fill a vacancy in the Geological Survey of India
Scope & Content:
File includes a description by P N Bose of Fossil Carnivora from the Siválik Hills in the collection of the British Museum (from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for February 1880)
File S&C 913/1880 - Abstract of replies to a circular of 28th July 1879, and related observations, regarding the course pursued in the Colonies in dealing with stowaways left behind in ships
Scope & Content:
The circular of 28th July 1879 is not present in the file
File S&C 1047/1880 - Papers, on the subject of the discharge of certain Asiatic seamen who are not natives of British India, containing a Board of Trade letter, dated 30th August 1880, stating that the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office, Liverpool, has been instructed that he has no power under the provisions of Section 16 of the Merchant Shipping Repeal Act of 184 either to refuse or to sanction the discharge of these seamen
Scope & Content:
The names of the Asiatic seamen are not given in the file