IOR/L/PJ/3/1097 No.118

Contained within the papers are:

• Narratives (Nos 15 to 19) of the Proceedings of the Board of Revenue and the several Local Officers and Committees for the relief of distress arising from the scarcity of food in Orissa and in other parts of Bengal
• Weekly Narratives (Nos 13 to 18) of the Government of Bengal relating to the famine in the Lower Provinces of Bengal
• Proceedings of meetings of the Calcutta Famine Relief Fund (from August to October 1866)
• Report on famine relief measures adopted in the districts of the Sonthal [Santal] Parganas, by A Money, Commissioner, dated 22 September 1866
• Papers showing the state of the funds placed at the disposal of the Board of Revenue for relief measures, the damage done to the crops by the late inundation in Orissa, and the action taken by the Bengal Government
• Report by Lieutenant G Nolan, Executive Engineer, Puri Division, dated 31 August 1866, on the damage done by the late floods to the embankments in that Division
• Proceedings of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Bengal and Orissa Famine Relief Fund, 11 October 1866
• Correspondence regarding a letter headed "Purulia Rotten Rice" and signed "Detective" published in the Hurkaru newspaper on the 18th September 1866

The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India:

• No.66 of 1866, dated 4 October 1866
• No.71 of 1866, dated 12 October 1866
• No.72 of 1866, dated 19 October 1866
• No.73 of 1866, dated 19 October 1866
• No.78 of 1866, dated 27 October 1866

The collection also includes a copy of the Despatch, No.118 of 1866, dated 31 December 1866.