Papers regarding the abolition of the Town Duty of Bombay and the substitution of a fixed duty of 1½ per cent in addition to the Establishment Sea Customs.
Claims of Major John Low 1) to draw his allowances as Agent at Jaipur for the period between leaving that post and assuming charge as Resident at Gwalior 2) to draw his allowances as Resident at Gwalior during the interval between his leaving Gwalior and assuming charge of the Lucknow Residency -...
The sum of 2000 rupees is distributed to the Shia and Sunni Mullahs at Lucknow, on the occasion of the departure of the Governor General [Lord William Bentinck] from that city.
Case of Appa Desai of Nipani, who tried to pass off a supposititious son as his own offspring, after murdering the child's natural mother - investigation of the case by Robert Cathcart - Bombay Government punish the Nipanikar by declaring his Saranjami lands to be non-inheritable.
A pension of 10 rupees 'per mensem' is granted to Paran Sukh Das, a 75 year old Hindi navis (writer) at the Saugor Political Agency, Jubbulpore (includes a copy of his pension application, giving personal particulars, p 7).
Complaint by the Naib-i-Mukhtar of the arrest for debt, on a writ of the Supreme Court, of Lal Mahal, a former concubine of the late Nawab Wallajah [Muhammad Ali Khan] - question as to which dependents of the Nawab of Arcot are exempt from the jurisdiction of the Madras Supreme Court.
Case of a girl from Coorg who had allegedly been kept a prisoner underground for two years in a house in Manantoddy in Wynaad - correspondence on the case between the Assistant Magistrate at Tellicherry, Findlay Anderson, and the Magistrate of Malabar, Andrew Fleming Huddleston, etc.