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IOR/H/777

Record Id:: 040-000004885
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-000004036
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100000000222.0x000252
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/H/777
Title:: Miscellaneous Papers relating to the Bengal, &c., Salt Revenue (collected in 1836)
Scope & Content:: (1) pp. i-ii, List of Contents (incomplete). (2) pp. vii-ix, List of Papers relating to the Administration of the Bengal Salt Revenue, viz. pp. 1-89, Separate Bengal Letter to Court 14th Oct. 1833, Minute by Lord Bentinck 18th July 1832 and correspondence between the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium and the Governor-General in Council 28th Aug. 1833 to 17th Feb. 1834. (3) pp. 93-138, Papers relating to the Drawback allowed on English Salt used in curing Provisions, viz. Extract from Bengal Letter to Court 14th April 1834 with enclosures, and Court's reply 9th Dec. 1835. (4) pp. 149-53, Memoranda on Collection to Bengal Separate Letter No. 2 of 1835. (See H/778 (5) (5) pp. 157-71, Warren Hastings to Mrs. Motte (--Jan. 1817) and to Sir Thomas Barnard 29th Jan. and 11th Feb. 1817 regarding the method of raising the Salt Revenue established by him in Bengal. (6) pp. 173-88, Extract Court to Bengal 8th Aug. 1821, Refusal to sanction proposed division of the Salt Agency for the 24 Pergunnahs. (7) pp. 189-223, Memorandum on House of Commons Committee Reports 1817, 1801, 1818. (8) pp. 227-45, H. T. Prinsep (Secretary, Bengal) to Peter Auber (Secretary to Court of Directors) 16th Dec. 1835, with letters from and to the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium, Sales of Salt. (9) pp. 249-69, Bengal Financial Letter 9th Dec. 1835, Justification of their having advertised the whole of the 6 per cent. Remittable Debt. (10) pp. 273-84, Minute by the Governor-General (C. T. Metcalfe) 19th Dec. 1835 on the State of the Finances. (11) pp. 286-7, Receipts and Disbursements in India from 1831/2 to 1833/4. (12) pp. 290-1, Account of Revenues of India. (13) p. 293, Dates of Establishment of and Alterations in the Salt Agency System in Bengal 19th Sept. 1780. (14) pp. 297-306, Request of Robert Chalmers (Committee Clerk) to J. C. Melvill (Financial Secretary) for statements required by George Wilbraham (M.P. for Southern Division, Chester County) Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on the Sale of Salt in British India. (15) pp. 309-16, Petitions from the Droitwich Salt Company and the Inhabitants of Droitwich and of Winsford in Cheshire, against the East India Company's Salt Monopoly. (16) pp. 317-8, Use of Spanish Salt in the Newfoundland Fishery. (17) pp. 319-20, Superiority of the French mode of manufacturing Salt; pp. 321-321D, Individual consumption of Salt in France. (18) pp. 323-4, Mode of manufacturing Salt at Ruthwell in Scotland. (19) pp. 327-8, Restrictions on manufacture of Salt in Madras. (20) pp. 335-56, Bengal to Court (Territorial Department) 19th Dec. 1822, Price and supply of Salt. (21) pp. 359-65, Prospectus of the Liverpool Merchants Joint Stock Company (from the Liverpool Standard 26th April 1836). (22) pp. 367-75, Mode of Manufacturing Salt in Cheshire, From Gonzales' Voyage to England and Scotland in 1730 (Pinkerton, Vol. II) (23) p. 377, Note on Alexander Reid's Evidence. (24) p. 379, Comparison of Indian with English measures. (25) pp. 383-5, Memoranda respecting Qualities of Salt, loading of Vessels, &c. (26) pp. 387-90, Tonnage of Vessels from Liverpool to Bengal and Bombay. (27) pp. 391-2, Note on the Salt Supply in India by T.C. (28) pp. 393-403, R. Gordon (India Board) to J. C. Melvill 14th July 1836 with enclosures regarding the export of Salt from Ceylon to India. (29) pp. 405-7, Bengal Separate Letter to Court 17th Feb. 1836 with Minute by H. M. Parker (Junior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium) on the levy of the Salt Revenue.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:: India Office Records
Hierarchy Record Ids:: 032-000004036
036-000004884
040-000004885
Is part of:: IOR/H : Home Miscellaneous
IOR/H/777-779 : Miscellaneous Papers relating to Salt Revenue

IOR/H/777 : Miscellaneous Papers relating to the Bengal, &c., Salt Revenue (collected in 1836)
Hierarchy:: 032-000004036[0435]/036-000004884[0001]/040-000004885
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Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 1 volume
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Languages:: English
Scripts:: Latin
Start Date:: 1817
End Date:: 1836
Date Range:: 1817-1836
Era:: CE
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Notes:: See Parliamentary Collection No. 83 in the India Office for Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on the Sale of Salt in British India, 1836.