Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
Scope & Content:
Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
Proceedings regarding a serious breach of discipline on the part of certain men of the 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry at Deesa on the 12th November 1842
Scope & Content:
Includes lists of the names of the men involved, and proceedings of the Native General Court Martial held in Cantonments near Deesa.
Claims preferred by the relatives of Officers killed in the retreat from Kabul to the grant of the gratuity for wounds received in action by the deceased
Scope & Content:
Included are papers relating to the cases of Lieutenant Montgomery of the 60th Native Infantry, Captain R S Burnett of the 54th Regiment of Native Infantry, and Lieutenant H Y Bazett of the Bengal Cavalry.
Papers regarding the transfer of the Province of Cutch from the Bombay Presidency to the charge of the Government of Sind
Scope & Content:
The papers include correspondence on the subject of combining political and military authority in Cutch, and the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel H S Roberts of the 20th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry as the Political Agent. Also included is a Political Department letter from the East India ...
Papers regarding the estate of the late Prince Jameh-ud-din of Mysore, one of the sons of Tipu Sultan, and an application from Prince Yasseen laying claim to the property of his deceased brother Prince Jameh-ud-din
Scope & Content:
The papers include a copy of Prince Jameh-ud-din's last will and testament, dated 24th January 1835
Papers regarding Act VIII of 1844, An Act to authorise the Governments of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George and Bombay, to remove native officers, soldiers and followers imprisoned under sentence of a court martial from one prison to another
Papers regarding Act IX of 1844, An Act for authorising the institution of suits in the Courts of Principal Sudder Ameens [Sadr Amins] and Sudder Ameens [Sadr Amins]
Statement showing the suits and appeals filed and decided in the civil courts of Sawunt Waree for the twelve months ending the 30th November 1842
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence regarding a new system of levying a fine from the losing party, and recommending the substitution of a "Nyadishee" in the place of the "Terryat Court"
Papers regarding the supply of timber from the forests of Colaba and the Junjeera [Janjira] Territory for the use of the Bombay dockyard
Scope & Content:
Includes a report by the Political Superintendent of Colaba, dated 24th September 1842, on measures for preserving the timber in the forests as well as for augmenting the quantity in reference to the future, with an appendix showing the various kinds of timber in the Colaba jungles and the best ...
