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Mss Eur F699/1/1/6/2

Record Id:

040-003312040

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003256818

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100031244626.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Mss Eur F699/1/1/6/2

Title:

Governor General's Minutes: 1856

Scope & Content:

Minutes of the Council of the Governor General in India, nos. 1-119. Indexed in Mss Eur F699/1/1/6/1.

1. Minute re: Oude [Oudh], 4 Mar 1856.

2. Minute re: Oude. Payment of arrears to Troops, 5 Mar 1856.

3. Minute re: Oude. Arrears due to Military & Civil Officers & Servants, 5 Mar 1856.

4. Minute re: Proposed visit of the King of Oude to Calcutta, 9 Mar 1856.

5. Minute re: Raja of Sumpthur, 11 Mar 1856.

6. Minute re: Oude. Kings Guards, Nujeebs etc., 13 Mar 1856.

7. Minute re: Oude. Jurisdiction of the Courts & Authority of the King, 13 Mar 1856.

8. Minute re: Settlement of the Andaman Islands, 15 Mar 1856.

9. Minute re: Salt report, 19 Mar 1856.

10. Minute re: Iron Works at Jubbulpore. Mr Hunt, 17 Mar 1856.

11. Minute re: Complaint against Mr Eales, Commander of HC Steamer ‘Mahamudder’, 24 Mar 1856.

12. Minute re: Memorial of Mr T. Plowden, 27 Mar 1856

13. Minute re: Captain Macgregor. Court of Enquiry regarding his proceedings in Nagpore, 31 Mar 1856.

14. Minute re: Papers relating to the General Revenue Survey in Madras, 3 Apr 1856.

15. Minute re: Iron Works at Jubbulpore. Mr Hunt, 15 Apr 1856.

16. Minute re: Electric Telegraph from Madras to Pondicherry & Southern India, 18 Apr 1856.

16a. Minute re: Affairs in Persia, 23 Apr 1856.

17. Minute re: Raja of Sumpthur, 26 Apr 1856.

18. Minute re: Shekawattee [Shekhawati], 28 Apr 1856.

19. Minute re: Chief Commissionership in Oude, 28 Apr 1856.

20. Minute re: Salary of Mr H.B. Devereux as Officiating Private Secretary of the Governor general, 2 May 1856.

21. Minute re: Herat, 6 May 1856.

22. Minute re: Resignation of Mr C.B. Denison, 6 May 1856.

23. Minute re: Herat & Dost Mahomed Khan, 15 May 1856.

24. Minute re: Mr C.B. Denison, 19 May 1856.

25. Minute re: Appointment of a Sudder Judge, 22 May 1856.

26. Minute re: Telegraph Communication between India & Europe by the Red Sea, 27 May 1856.

27. Minute re: Report of the Director of Public Instruction, 2 Jun 1856.

28. Minute re: Presidency College, 3 Jun 1856.

29. Minute re: Hooghly Pilots, 6 Jun 1856.

30. Minute re: Museum of Geology, 12 Jun 1856.

31. Minute re: Extension of the Geological Survey of India, 12 Jun 1856.

32. Minute re: Geological Survey Mr Oldham’s Salary, 12 Jun 1856.

33. Minute re: Financial Commissioner in Oude, 18 Jun 1856.

34. Minute re: Military Police, Bengal, 28 Jun 1856.

35. Minute re: Sub-Assistant Surgeon Beharee Lall Ghose, 5 Jul 1856.

36. Minute re: College of Civil Engineers at Madras & Major Maitland’s Schools, 9 Jul 1856.

37. Minute re: Relations with Berbera, 11 Jul 1856.

38. Minute re: Vaccination in the Hills, 12 Jul 1856.

39. Minute re: Major Rickards, 19 Jul 1856.

40. Minute re: Governor General’s Agent in Rajpootana [Rajputana]. Affairs of Jeypore & Jurisdiction of Political Officers, 19 Jul 1856.

41. Minute re: Mr Brown late Commissioner of Bhangulpore, 21 Jul 1856.

42. Minute re: Khelat & Persia, 22 Jul 1856.

43. Minute re: Property of the Ranee Jhunda Kour, 22 Jun 1856.

44. Minute re: [Ship] Feroze, 24 Jul 1856.

45. Minute re: Meeranzaie, 25 Jul 1856.

46. Minute re: Report of the Director of Public Instruction, 27 Jul 1856.

47. Minute re: Private Secretary to the Governor General, 29 Jul 1856.

48. Minute re: Dr Sprenger, 29 Jul 1856.

49. Minute re: Telegraph to Kurachee [Karachi], 31 Jul 1856.

50. Minute re: Dost Mahomed Khan & Persia, 6 Aug 1856.

51. Minute re: Punjab Report, 10 Aug 1856.

52. Minute re: Scindia’s title to certain possessions in the Deccan under the Treaty of Serjee Anjengaum, 10 Aug 1856.

53. Minute re: Succession to the titular throne of Delhi, 12 Aug 1856.

54. Minute re: Gwalior Contingent, 13 Aug 1856.

55. Minute re: Dost Mahomed Khan & Persia, 18 Aug 1856.

56. Minute re: Jung Bahadoor & the Government of Nepaul [Nepal], 18 Aug 1856.

57. Minute re: Jung Bahadoor & the Government of Nepaul [Nepal], 24 Aug 1856.

58. Minute re: ‘Cooly’ Emigration to Grenada & St Lucia, 25 Aug 1856.

59. Minute re: Khelat & Persia, 26 Aug 1856.

60. Minute re: Khelat & Persia, 27 Aug 1856.

61. Minute re: Loan, 1856-57, 29 Aug 1856.

62. Minute re: Expedition to the Persian Gulf, 1 Sep 1856.

63. Minute re: Alguada Reef, 2 Sep 1856.

64. Minute to the King of Oude, 2 Sep 1856.

65. Minute re: Tanjore, 5 Sep 1856.

66. Minute re: Reduction of Duties by the Raja of Rewah, 7 Sep 1856.

67. Minute re: Family of the late Nawab of the Carnatic, 9 Sep 1856.

68. Minute re: Exhibition of Manufacture in the Nizam’s Dominions, 9 Sep 1856.

69. Minute re: Eesan Khan of Herat, 10 Sep 1856.

70. Minute re: Maharanee Jhunda Kour of Lahore, 13 Sep 1856.

71. Minute to the King of Oude, 13 Sep 1856.

72. Minute re: Maharaja of Jeypore, & Jeypore & Bhurtpore Road, 16 Sep 1856.

73. Minute re: Forts in Oude, 16 Sep 1856.

74. Minute re: Capital Punishment in Oude & carrying Arms, 17 Sep 1856.

75. Minute re: The Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, 20 Sep 1856.

76. Minute re: Maharaja of Jeypore, & Jeypore & Bhurtpore Road, 21 Sep 1856.

76a. Minute re: Preparation of an Expeditionary Force for the Persian Gulf, 22 Sep 1856.

77. Minute re: Lieutenant Haig. Navigation of the Godavery, 24 Sep 1856.

78. Minute re: Mr George Plowden’s claim of arrears of salary, 24 Sep 1856.

79. Minute re: Public Works of 1856-57. Distribution of 100 lacs allowed for, 27 Sep 1856.

80. Minute re: Business of the Home & Foreign Departments, 29 Sep 1856.

81. Minute re: Treatment of ‘Coolies’ at Mauritius, 29 Sep 1856.

82. Minute re: Bengal Marine, 30 Sep 1856.

83. Minute re: Un-covenanted Agency in Madras, 30 Sep 1856.

84. Minute re: Memorial of the Missionaries on the condition of the population of Bengal, 6 Oct1856.

85. Minute re: Dacca & Arracan Coast Road, 10 Oct 1856.

86. Minute re: Lieutenant Colonel Jacob & the transmission of supplies to Dost Mahomed, 15 Oct 1856.

87. Minute re: Port of the Mutlah, 17 Oct 1856.

88. Minute re: Proposal of Sir John Login to the Honourable Court for certain returns, 17 Oct 1856.

89. Minute re: Treatment of ‘Coolies’ at Mauritius, 20 Oct 1856.

90. Minute re: Introduction of Cinchona Tree into India, 20 Oct 1856.

91. Minute re: Proposed grant of land to Mr H. Atherton in Kangra, 26 Oct 1856.

92. Minute re: Officers of the Quarter Master General & Commissary Departments at Bushire, 29 Oct 1856.

93. Minute re: Dost Mahomed Khan, 1 Nov 1856.

94. Minute re: Dost Mahomed Khan, 7 Nov 1856.

95. Minute re: King of Oude, 9 Nov 1856.

96. Minute re: Oude. Tour of the Judicial Commissioner, 10 Nov 1856.

97. Minute re: Maharanee Jhunda Kour of Lahore, 10 Nov 1856.

98. Minute re: Family of the late Nawab of the Carnatic, 11 Nov 1856.

99. Minute re: Indian Universities, 15 Nov 1856.

100. Minute re: Salt in Oude, 15 Nov 1856.

101. Minute re: Port of the Mutlah, 16 Nov 1856.

102. Minute re: Mr Nicholson. First Assistant Commissioner at Moulmein, 18 Nov 1856.

103. Minute re: Baroda, 23 Nov 1856.

104. Minute re: Dost Mahomed Khan, 23 Nov 1856.

105. Minute re: Mail Service between Calcutta & Moulmein, 27 Nov 1856.

106. Minute re: Embezzlement of Revenues in Rangoon, 30 Nov 1856.

107. Minute re: Sudder Court, 1 Dec 1856.

108. Minute re: Baroda Succession, 1 Dec 1856.

109. Minute re: Tanjore, 6 Dec 1856.

110. Minute re: Steamers in the Bay of Bengal, 7 Dec 1856.

111. Minute re: Tanjore, 10 Dec 1856.

112. Minute re: Maharaja of Jeypore. Jeypore & Bhurtpore Road, 13 Dec 1856.

112a. Minute re: Serohi, 14 Dec 1856.

113. Minute re: Captain Yule. Report of the Mission to Ava, 15 Dec 1856.

114. Minute re: Bengal Chamber of Commerce, 16 Dec 1856.

115. Minute re: Kooria Mooria Islands, 17 Dec 1856.

116. Minute re: Elphinstone College, 20 Dec 1856.

117. Minute re: Forests in Oude, 24 Dec 1856.

118. Minute re: Proposed removal of Mr Kemp from Backergunge, 29 Dec 1856.

119. Minute re: Calcutta & South Eastern Railway Company Line to the Mutlah, 31 Dec 1856.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003256818
033-003309783
036-003309785
037-003309929
040-003312040

Is part of:

Mss Eur F699 : Papers of Charles Canning and Charlotte Canning, Earl and Countess Canning
Mss Eur F699/1 : Papers of Charles Canning, Viscount (later Earl) Canning
Mss Eur F699/1/1 : Governor General's Papers
Mss Eur F699/1/1/6 : Governor General: Minutes

Mss Eur F699/1/1/6/2 : Governor General's Minutes: 1856

Hierarchy:

032-003256818[0001]/033-003309783[0001]/036-003309785[0006]/037-003309929[0002]/040-003312040

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (122 items)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1856

End Date:

1856

Date Range:

4 Mar 1856-31 Dec 1856

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Microfilmed as part of The Indian Papers of the Rt. Hon. Charles John, Earl Canning: Governor General (1856-1858) and Viceroy (1858-1862), ISBN (microfilms): 978 1-85117-080-7 (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).

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