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2937: Report on the result of the experiment undertaken by the Manager of the Behalee Tea Factory in Assam in importing sheep for re-sale among labourers
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.141 of 1868, dated 23 September 1868
2941: Report by J W Edgar, Officiating Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, on the Tea Gardens in the Province for the half-year ending 31st December 1867, together with the orders of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.124 of 1868, dated 3 September 1868
2949: Proceedings relating to the pay and expenses of Sergeant Phillips and Sappers Talbot and Conway of the Royal Engineers, employed under Major J F Tennant, and the distribution of photographs of the solar eclipse of the 18th August 1868
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.156 of 1868, dated 26 October 1868
2985: Narrative of the measures adopted to give effect to the several recommendations contained in the Report of the Famine Commissioners for the improvement of the condition of Orissa
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.167 of 1868, dated 20 November 1868. The file also includes a copy of the Government of India's reply to the Bengal Government regarding the Khoorda Estate in the District of Pooree [Puri].
3024: Labour Returns and Visitation Reports of Tea Gardens in Assam, Cachar and Sylhet, during the half-year ending 30th June 1868
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.20 of 1869, dated 9 March 1869. The Returns include lists of deceased workers, with date and cause of death; lists of absentee workers other than convicted deserters; and lists of convicted deserters, with dates and det...
3028: Memorandum on the Records in the Home Department of the Government of India, by J Talboys Wheeler, Secretary to the Record Commission (Calcutta: A Dozey, Home Secretariat Press, 1868)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.16 of 1869, dated 13 February 1869
3069: Papers regarding the arrival in Calcutta of the return Indian emigrants from the Danish Colony of St Croix by the ship Dorothea Melchior
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.18 of 1869, dated 3 March 1869; and a statement showing the receipts and disbursements on account of return emigrants from the Island of St Croix per ship Dorothea Melchior (with the names of the emigrants)