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1563: Papers regarding the publication, on and after the 1st January 1864, of an Official Gazette to be devoted exclusively to the purposes of the Supreme Government, and to be called the Gazette of India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.56 of 1863, dated 23 November 1863. Also included in the collection is a Government of India Resolution regarding Printing Establishments and Printing Charges under the Government of India; and a Note by W Muir on the ...
1561: Papers regarding the temporary assumption of the office of Governor General of India by Sir Robert Napier, in consequence of Sir William Denison having signified his intention not to assume the office of Governor General of India until his arrival in Calcutta, including on the question of the legality of Sir Robert Napier's assumption of that office
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.55 of 1863, dated 23 November 1863 No.60 of 1863, dated 3 December 1863 No.63 of 1863, dated 23 December 1863
1706: Application by the Committee of Management of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for a grant of 300 rupees per mensem from Government
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Home Department letter received from India, No.26 of 1864, dated 6 June 1864. The correspondence gives a short history of the Bombay Branch of the Society.
1793: Papers relating to an arrangement proposed by the Government of Madras for affording legal education to the Civil Servants of that Presidency who may elect for the Judicial Branch of the Service, and the general question of providing a course of legal study to Civil Servants destined for the Judicial Branch
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Judicial letter received from India, No.20 of 1864, dated 21 March 1864. Also included is a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.70 of 1864, dated 17 November 1864, requesting an addition of 20 new civil servants for the Bengal Civil Service f...
1808: Correspondence on the subject of the probable occurrence of great distress, if not actual famine, in many of the Districts of the North Western Provinces east of Etawah, in consequence of a partial failure of the periodical rains
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.74 of 1864, dated 7 December 1864
1861: Correspondence regarding a proposal by the Government of Bombay that a portion of the civilians required for the Central Provinces be drawn from the Bombay Civil Service, to the extent at least of the number likely to be needed for the Mahratta speaking Districts of that Administration
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.5 of 1865, dated 25 January 1865 No.25 of 1865, dated 17 March 1865
1869: Papers regarding the number and description of persons in the Government of India who were removed from Calcutta to Simla in April 1864, and the expense of their removal (including the charges of the Lahore Durbar), and the expense incurred by the tours of the Governor General from 1859/60 to 1863/64
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India: No.80 of 1864, dated 15 December 1864 No.4 of 1865, dated 18 January 1865 No.27 of 1865, dated 18 March 1865
2001: Correspondence relating to the exercise by British Consular Agents at French Ports in India of the power vested by Section 24, Act No.XIII of 1864, in the Protectors of Emigrants at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, of granting licenses for the recruitment in British Territory of labourers for the French Colonies
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.72 of 1865, dated 18 September 1865
2024: Special Narrative No.5 of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 27th October 1865, regarding the agricultural exhibitions held in Bengal during the last cold season [December 1864- February 1865]
Scope & Content:
The collection contains reports and correspondence regarding the following agricultural exhibitions: Agricultural Exhibition of the Dacca Division Agricultural Exhibition held at Chittagong Agricultural Show of the Rajshahye [Rajshahi] Division held at Rampore Beauleah [Rampur Boalia] Agricultu...