IOR/L/PJ/3/1088 No.153

The collection contains the following papers:

• Special Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, No.4, dated 2nd July 1861, regarding an unintelligible entry in the stationery indent for 1861
• Reports of the Board of Examiners on the examination in the Native languages, during the current year [1861], of the following Junior Civil Servants on their first arrival: H C B C Raban, W R Larminie, R D Hime, C Twigg, J Wilson, G Graham, and T T Allen
• Public letter from the Home Department, Government of India, No.50 of 1861, dated 19th July 1861, referring the India Office to Nos.65 and 66 of their Public Proceedings for May 1861, for Captain McNeil's further report on the intended Meriah sacrifice [Human sacrifice] in Tooamool, and for the order passed thereon
• Special Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, No.1 (Emigration), dated 22nd July 1861, regarding Mr MacGregor's resignation of his appointment as Emigration Agent for Jamaica and the arrangement recognised by the Lieutenant Governor consequent on that resignation
• Special Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, No.3 (Emigration), dated 16th August 1861, regarding the dissatisfaction expressed by the Authorities of Reunion at the class of Emigrants sent from India
• Public letter from the Home Department, Government of India, No.67 of 1861, dated 30th August 1861, regarding the allocation of new Civil Servants for the Bengal Presidency in 1863

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

• No.48 of 1861, dated 6 July 1861
• No.49 of 1861, dated 19 July 1861
• No.55 of 1861, dated 2 August 1861
• No.65 of 1861, dated 29 August 1861