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546. Papers relating to Military Finance, Apr-Oct 1860. 1. Printed Resolution of the Government of India on the establishment of a system of Annual Budget, Estimates and Audit, and a Central Board of Revenue 7 Apr 1860. 2. Printed Resolution of the Government of India defining the functions of the Military Finance Commission with regard to the accounts of the various Departments of the Army 6 Jul 1860. 3. Draft Resolution for the better regulation of business in the office of the Military Finance Commission 6 Oct 1860. See also Private Secretary's Letters Received item 7807.

547. Draft of Lord Canning's speech at Rajmahal proposing the toast of success to the East Indian Railway, Oct 1860. Also proposing the health of Lord Dalhousie, on the same occasion. In envelope.

548. Papers relating to the Police Commission, 1860-1861. 1. 1st Report of the Police Commission Sept 1860, printed. 2. Comments of Colonel Balfour, President, Military Finance Commission, on the 1st Report of the Police Commission Aug 1860, printed. 3. Propositions recorded by the Police Commission as the basis of a Police system and of an organized Constabulary. Not dated. Printed. 4. Draft Bill prepared by the Police Commission, for the Regulation of Police in India, not dated, printed. 5. Report of the Police Commission on Village Police in India, with covering letter Sent 1860, printed. 6. Confidential Memorandum by Lieutenant Colonel Bruce on the reform of the Police in India 21 Jul 1860, printed. 7. Letter from the Police Commission to the Secretary to Government Home Department commenting on the measures ordered for the organization of Police in Bengal, 3 Jan, printed, 2 copies. 8. Letter from the same to the same submitting and analysing a return of the number and cost of the Police of every denomination under the Government, of Bengal as they stood on 1 May 1860, 15 Apr l86l, printed, 2 copies.

549. Copy letters from General Mansfield, Commander in Chief of Bombay to Colonel Bruce, Member of the Police Commission, Sept 26 1860, and Bruce to Mansfield, Oct 17 1860, commenting on the papers produced by the Police Commission, especially on the expediency or otherwise of massing troops together and keeping them solely for the resistance of aggression. In envelope Endorsed: Miscellaneous 548.

550. Letter from the Government of India to the Secretary of State, 6 Oct 1860, commenting on the estimates of the cost of completing the East Indian Railway in Bengal and the North West Provinces, printed. Also printed papers relating to the estimates, bound together. In envelope.