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2351: Report from the Government of Bengal on the proposal to restrict the sale of waste lands in Assam to lots within easy access of the Courts of the Province, and within reach of protection from attacks by frontier tribes
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.5 of 1867, dated 4 February 1867
2415: Appointment of William Grey to be Lieutenant Governor of the Bengal Division of the Presidency of Fort William, in succession to Sir Cecil Beadon who resigned
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.74 of 1867, dated 23 April 1867; and a letter from E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, to the Hon'ble W Grey, dated 23rd April 1867
2420: Report by R C Money, Deputy Commissioner of Maunbhoom, on the operations undertaken for the relief of distress caused by famine in that District during the past year, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.72 of 1867, dated 23 April 1867. Also included is a communication from the Government of Bengal reporting the instructions issued to the Commissioner of Cuttack, authorising the publication by him of a Notification for...
2437: Further papers relating to the famine in the Lower Provinces of Bengal, in continuation of the 30th Narrative of the Government of Bengal
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.81 of 1867, dated 10 May 1867. Included among the papers is a report by W W Hunter, Officiating Inspector of Schools, on the effect of the recent famine upon the schools and educational institutions in the South Wester...
2559: Report from the Commissioner of Cuttack on the misconduct of the Police in taking unauthorised tolls on boats passing up and down the Matai River
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.176 of 1867, dated 1 October 1867; and a letter from T E Ravenshaw, Officiating Commissioner, Cuttack Division, to the Secretary, Board of Revenue, Lower Provinces, dated 5th August 1867. Ravenshaw's letter also menti...
2609: Suggestions by the Director General of the Post Office of India on the subject of the new contract for the Indian Mail Service
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Separate Revenue/Post Office) letter received from India, No.21 of 1867, dated 15 October 1867; and a letter from A M Monteath, Director General of the Post Office of India, to E H Lushington, Secretary to the Government of India, Financial Dep...
2651: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, requesting that 30 new Civil Servants be added to the Bengal Establishment in 1870
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.196 of 1867, dated 19 November 1867; and an Indent Statement for the Covenanted Civil Service
2762: Sanction of an Estimate of the probable cost of completing Major Tennant's observations in Masulipatam of the Solar Eclipse expected to take place in August 1868
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Financial (Expenditure/Education, Science, and Art) letter received from India, No.120 of 1868, dated 25 April 1868
2794: Bengal Special Narrative, No.5 of 1867, dated 9th November 1867, regarding samples of chinchona [cinchona] bark from the Government Plantation at Darjeeling for analysis by Mr Howard and their market value ascertained in London
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.201 of 1867, dated 25 November 1867