Papers relating to a report upon the experiments made at the port of Madras to test the usefulness of two life boats constructed upon the designs of E Palmer and Lieutenant Cook, R.N., and to ascertain the comparative merits of [George William] Manby's life apparatus and of [John] Dennett's rockets
Papers on various subjects relating to finance in the Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:
Committee appointed to investigate an alleged deficiency in the General Treasury, and an Accountant for the examination of the books on a monthly salary of 87½ rupees. Application from the Acting Secretary to the Mint Committee for the salary attached to his office from the date of his taking cha...
Papers proposing improvements in the steam navigation between Bombay and Suez
Scope & Content:
Includes 'Rough Notes' by Sir Robert Oliver containing his observations on the subject of the steam navigation between Bombay and Suez, and a report on the condition of the East India Company's steam vessels Atalanta, Berenice, Cleopatra, and Victoria employed as Packets
Reports regarding the possibility of locating a convalescent depôt in Darjeeling
Scope & Content:
Favourable reports by Captain James Dowling Herbert and James William Grant on Darjeeling as a possible site for a convalescent depôt (Herbert's published report appears at the beginning of the collection, Grant's memorandum is on pp 13-24)
Act XXII of 1843, An Act for amending the Law relating to the Jurisdiction of the Dewanny Adawlut of the Zillah of the Twenty-four Pergunnahs [24 Parganas]. Act XXIII of 1843, An Act for amending the Law relating to the Jurisdiction of the Zillah Courts in the Provinces ceded by the Nawab Vizi...
