2012: Special Narrative No.1 of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, dated 8th April 1865, with enclosures, regarding the engagement of a passage to England for eleven insane patients on board the ship Devonshire
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The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1865, dated 1 May 1865. The names of the patients were Charles Fairbairn (alias Theodore Pennington), Edward Dunn, Charlotte Jones, Charlotte Gore, Agnes Barber, Annie Shuldham, Mary Jacobi, Lydia Rees, Charlotte...
2128: Report by the President of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal on the subject of the great mortality which occurred on board certain ships conveying emigrants from Calcutta to British Guiana and Trinidad in 1864-1865, together with a copy of the connected correspondence
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The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.20 of 1866, dated 27 Mar 1866. The ships concerned were Athletœ, Clarence, Earl Russell, Golden South, Ganges, Fusilier, and Newcastle. The report concluded that the mortality was largely due to a fatal and infectiou...
2287: Report by A M Monteath, Officiating Director General of the Post Office of India, regarding the landing of the Mails at Bombay and the expediency of substituting Postal for Naval Agents in order to secure the sorting of Mails on board
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The collection consists of a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.18 of 1866, dated 1 December 1866; and a letter from A M Monteath, Officiating Director General of the Post Office of India, to E C Bayley, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 24th October 1866
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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