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Copies of official telegrams received in the Public Offices during April 1859, numbered 1 to 101 [originally included in a bundle labelled ‘No. 14 Copies of Official Telegrams Received in the Public Offices. During the Month of April 1859. Nos. 1 to 202’]. Includes the following telegrams:

Telegrams to Major General R.J.H. Birch, Secretary, Government of India, Military Department, Calcutta, from:

Brigadier Horseford, Camp; Major General Sir Hope Grant, Lucknow; Secretary to Government, Lahore; Quarter Master General of the Army, Camp; Acting Military Secretary to Government, Madras; Military Secretary, Madras; Secretary to Government, Madras; Colonel Beatson, Adjewta; Field Pay Master, Cawnpore; Brigadier Rowcroft, Goruckpore; Officiating Secretary to Government of the North Western Provinces, Allahabad; Military Secretary, Lucknow; Colonel Simson, Camp Lotun; Major Meade, Mahoodra; and Deputy Adjutant General of the Army, Head Quarters Camp.

Telegrams to Secretary, Government of India Home Department, Calcutta, from: Secretary to Government Revenue Department, Madras; Officiating Secretary to Government of the North Western Provinces, Allahabad; and Secretary to Government Revenue Department, Madras.

Telegrams to C.H. Lushington, Secretary, Government of India Finance Department, Calcutta, from: Accountant General, Bombay; Accountant General, Madras; Financial Secretary, Bombay; and Accountant, Agra.

Telegrams to the Secretary, Government of India Foreign Department, Calcutta, and R. Simson, Under Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, from:

Officiating Secretary to Government of the North Western Provinces, Allahabad; Commissioner of Oudh, Lucknow; Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oudh, Lucknow; Lieutenant Helbert, Indore; and Brigadier General Napier, Seronge.

Telegrams to Lieutenant Colonel H. Yule, Secretary, Government of India Public Works Department, Calcutta, and Major R. Strachey, Deputy Secretary, Government of India Public Works Department from:

F.B. Outram, Allahabad; R. Davies, Lahore; Commissioner of Mysore, Nimdidroog via Bangalore; Major M. Maxwell, Gwalior; Secretary to Government of the Punjab, Lahore; and Captain G. Sim, Allahabad.

Telegrams to the Secretary to Government of India, Calcutta, from:

Mr Russell, Galle; Officiating Secretary to Government, Bombay; Brigadier Napier, Gondah; Lieutenant Colonel Simson, Camp Russoul; and Captain L.P. Toddy, Assistant to the Commissioner of Military Police, Allahabad.

Telegrams to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Calcutta, from:

Assistant Commissioner, Sonthal Purgunnas [?], Rajmahal; Deputy Magistrate of Shergotty; C.J. Mackenzie, Sasseram; Lieutenant J.M. Graham, Camp Oontaree; Commissioner, Patna; Commissioner, Benares; Lieutenant F.M. Sandys, Commanding Detachment 73 Gorkhas, Rajmahal; Commissioner of Burdwan; and H. Ferguson, Patna.

Telegrams to Colonel Charles Stuart, Military Secretary to the Governor General, Calcutta, from:

Sir Hope Grant, Lucknow; Colonel Sterling, Military Secretary, Delhi, and Head Quarters Camp; Colonel Walter, Commanding at Dinapore; and Deputy Magistrate, Shergotty.

Also includes telegram to Superintendent, from Mr Cumberledge, Futtehpore.