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2850: Report by the Director General of the Post Office of India on the proposal made by the Post Master General of the United States to the Post Master General, Hong Kong, relative to the transmission of correspondence between China, India, and the United States by means of a line of United States Packets recently established between San Francisco, Yokohama and Hong Kong
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Separate Revenue/Post Office) letter received from India, No.4 of 1868, dated 27 January 1868; and a letter from A M Monteath, Director General of the Post Office of India, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Financial Department, date...
2938: Sanction by the Government of India of a further sum of 3,500 rupees on account of the purchase of a new supply of plated-ware for the Government House Establishment at Bombay
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Expenditure/Administration and Public Departments) letter received from India, No.288 of 1868, dated 28 October 1868
3086: Report on the Total Eclipse of the Sun as seen at Guntoor [Guntur], August 18th 1868, by Major J F Tennant, Superintending the Observations, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.183 of 1868, dated 19 December 1868. The report contains photographs of the eclipse, the equipment used and the Observatory team, and a plan of part of Guntur showing the position of the instruments.
4006: Papers on the subject of a grant of land held in British Burma by H A Mangles, Accountant General in that Province, the question of forbidding covenanted and military officers from holding land in the Province in which they are employed, and of Government servants abstaining from investments connected with their public duty, as well as from all speculative investments
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1873, dated 16 June 1873; a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.48 of 1873, dated 14 July 1873; and a copy of the Despatch, No.99 of 1873, dated 26 August 1873.
5344: Explanation by W A Howe of the Bengal Civil Service as to the claim preferred against him by Mrs Bennett on account of the education of his daughters
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.116 of 1878, dated 27 December 1878
5398: Memorial from H B Simson, late of the Bengal Civil Service, praying to be supplied with a list of the cases in which his work as a Judge in the Lower Provinces was deemed to have been incorrectly and perfunctorily performed
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.28 of 1879, dated 17 April 1879
244: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of the North Western Provinces, in the General Department, from the 1st January to the 12th February 1858
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page, a table of contents, and an extract from the Narrative, dated 25th June 1859: Coll 1, Papers regarding a bill passed on account of Establishment attached to the Medical School at Agra for Decem...
346: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of the North Western Provinces, in the General Department, for the 2nd Quarter of 1858
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a cover sheet, a table of contents, and an extract from the Narrative, dated 11th September 1859: Coll 1, Temporary arrangement for the conduct of the clerical duties at Agra, May 1858 to September 1859. Col...
383: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of the North Western Provinces, in the General Department, for the 3rd Quarter of 1858
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a cover sheet, a table of contents, and an extract from the Narrative, dated 30th June 1859: Coll 1, correspondence regarding the despatch to the Court of Directors of the East India Company of certain objec...