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4066: Inspection reports and returns of labourers employed in tea gardens in Cachar for 1872, with the Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.20 of 1873, dated 14 July 1873
4174: Application from Sir W Muir, Lieutenant Governor of the North Western Provinces, to be allowed to retire from the Bengal Civil Service from the 7th April 1874
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.11 of 1874, dated 13 February 1874
4190: Supplementary report from Dr J Grant, Protector of Emigrants at Calcutta, showing the average period of detention of, and mortality among, emigrants whilst in depot, the mortality on the passage, and the average duration of voyage to the several colonies, during the year 1872-73
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.2 of 1874, dated 9 January 1874
4237: Appointment of the Honourable Sir Richard Temple to be Lieutenant Governor of Bengal in succession to the Honourable Sir George Campbell who resigned
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of the Public letter received from India, No.23 of 1874, dated 10 April 1874
4293: Statistics required from the colonies to enable the Government of India to come to a conclusion on the question of the proper date for closing the emigration season to the West Indies
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.16 of 1874, dated 22 May 1874
4302: Expediency of vessels with return emigrants from British Guiana to India calling at St Helena or the Cape of Good Hope - Letter from the Government of India, Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce, requesting that British Consuls in Foreign Colonies may be caused to furnish full reports on the arrival of immigrants, and objecting to the adoption of the Suez Canal route in conveying emigrants from India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.22 of 1874, dated 16 June 1874; and a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.29 of 1874, dated 7 July 1874
4303: Memorial from Surendra Nath Banerjea, late of the Bengal Civil Service, in which he prays that he may be allowed to lay his case before the Secretary of State for India
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1874, dated 14 July 1874
Desire of the French Colonial authorities in Reunion to obtain annually a larger number of Indian immigrants, and a proposal that the number of women should be brought up to a proportion of 50% to the males
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.62 of 1875, dated 30 September 1875