5330: Claim by the Austrian Post Office on account of transit charges, and proposed mode of adjustment of the postal accounts of the several countries with which India has connection
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Separate Revenue (Post Office) letter received from India, No.23 of 1878, dated 24 October 1878
5379: Proposal for the transfer of the Great Cocos Islands from the jurisdiction of the Superintendent of Port Blair to that of the Chief Commissioner of British Burma
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.25 of 1879, dated 14 March 1879. Also includes a copy of the Despatch, No.46 of 1879, dated 29 May 1879.
5408: Application from J J S Driberg, an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Assam, for admission to the grade of Assistant Commissioner
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.39 of 1879, dated 2 June 1879. Also includes a copy of the Despatch, No.73 of 1879, dated 31 July 1879.
5411: Request for the portraits of Sir William Denison, Lord Napier and Ettrick, Lord Napier of Magdala, and Sir John Strachey for the Government House at Calcutta
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.41 of 1879, dated 9 June 1879
5431: Proposed addition to Rule XII of the Rules for the Transmission of Memorials with the view of empowering the Government and Administrations in India to withhold memorials appealing against the non-exercise of a dispensatory discretion
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.46 of 1879, dated 30 June 1879
5448: Payments made by the Emigration Agents for the Colonies in satisfaction of claims of the Indian Treasury for remittances of Indian emigrants in the colonies paid to their relatives in India - rate of exchange on the remittances of emigrant's savings from the West Indies
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Finance and Commerce letter received from India, No.223 of 1879, dated 28 July 1879, and a copy of the Financial letter received from India, No.139 of 1879, dated 22 May 1879
5473: Stoppage of freight payable to the owners of the Sylhet, a British vessel that conveyed return emigrants to Calcutta from Demerara - occurrence of grave irregularities on board the Sylhet during her voyage from Demerara to Calcutta - occurrence of certain irregularities in connection with the equipment and the voyage from Demerara to Calcutta of the Lightning with return emigrants
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.7 of 1879, dated 24 April 1879; a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.4 of 1879, dated 21 March 1879; and a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.3 of 1879, dated 14 March 1879
1771: Correspondence regarding a scheme of vaccine operations in the Punjab
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.63 of 1864, dated 29 September 1864, reporting the appointment of Assistant Surgeon A M Garden to be Superintendent of Vaccination in the Punjab.
Salary claim by J Broughton, Chemist to the Government Cinchona plantations
Scope & Content:
J Broughton submits a claim for arrears of pay, on the grounds that he was delayed in taking up his duties as Chemist because he contracted smallpox and was in quarantine. Authorised.
