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171: Address to Her Majesty the Queen from the Mahomedan community at Calcutta expressing their satisfaction at Queen Victoria's proclamation of the 1st November 1858; and a congratulatory address to Her Majesty the Queen from the relatives of the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, and several residents of Moorshedabad [Murshidabad], on the assumption, by Her Majesty, of the Government of the British Territories in India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letters received from India: No.40 of 1859, dated 25 March 1859; and No.52 of 1859, dated 26 April 1859. The address from the Nawab Nazim of Bengal and residents of Murshidabad is not present in the collection. A printed copy only of the address fro...
613: Communication from G Couper, Secretary to the Government of the North Western Provinces, explaining the circumstances under which copies of the Educational Report of the North Western Provinces for 1858-59 were despatched to England bearing postage, instead of being sent as freight
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.13 of 1860, dated 31 July 1860
992: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, recommending the appointment of a trustworthy Agent in England to take charge of the articles being sent from India for the London Exhibition of 1862, to superintend their arrangement in the space allotted to them in the Exhibition building, and to keep all accounts connected with their sale
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.64 of 1861, dated 21 August 1861
1024: Suggestion by the Accountant General to the Government of India that the Invoices of stores despatched from England should be separate for each Department, and should exhibit distinctly the amount of freight payable on each Invoice, and that a list should accompany each set of separate Invoices
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.46 of 1861, dated 28 June 1861; and a letter from E Drummond, Accountant General to the Government of India, to W Grey, Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 22nd June 1861
1053/1153: Suggestion by the Accountant General to the Government of India that in future Invoices of Stores despatched from England, the amount of freight paid in England, and the amount payable in India, may be distinctly specified
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.8 of 1862, dated 7 February 1862; and a letter from E Drummond, Accountant General to the Government of India, to W Grey, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 29th January 1862
1164: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, drawing attention to the expediency of determining the rank and precedence of the Additional Members appointed to the Council of the Governor General and to the several local Councils under the Indian Councils Act of 1861
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.12 of 1862, dated 17 February 1862
1276: Communication from the Government of Fort St George reporting that, as unexpected impediments had arisen to the appointment of Captain Templer to the office of Consular Agent at Pondicherry, Benjamin Thomas Norfor, an Uncovenanted Officer of the Public Works Department, had been appointed to the post on a salary of 350 rupees per mensem
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.44 of 1862, dated 13 May 1862; and a letter from T Pycroft, Chief Secretary to the Government of Fort St George, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, dated 12th April 1862
1347: Papers regarding the practice of the Madras and Bombay Governments of corresponding directly with the Secretary of State for India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public Works (General) letter received from India, No.45 of 1862, dated 30 July 1862; and a copy of the Despatch, No.15 of 1863, dated 9 February 1863
1458: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, transmitting Addresses adopted at a Public Meeting of the European and Native inhabitants of Calcutta, held on the 18th May 1863, and requesting that they be submitted to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Prince and Princess of Wales
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.29 of 1863, dated 22 May 1863. The Addresses are not present with the letter.