IOR/L/PJ/3/1065 No.40

The collection contains the following small collections of papers relating to postal matters:

• Coll 1, Correspondence with H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, respecting the registration of letters passing between England and India, April 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 2, Enquiry by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, as to the course to be followed in regard to correspondence suspected to be treasonable, July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 3, Correspondence regarding the despatch of all letters and papers by the After-Packet to be conditional upon the Inland postage upon them being pre-paid at the usual rates, May 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 4, Correspondence regarding a suggestion by the Madras Chamber of Commerce for securing the earlier receipt from Galle of the mails from Madras and Calcutta conveyed by the monthly steamers from England to Australia, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 5, Enquiry by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, whether carts conveying the public mails should be liable to toll at the Toll Bars erected under Act VIII of 1851, August 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 6 (2 vols), Correspondence regarding postage stamps received per ships Hougomont, Lord Raglan and Nile, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 7, Correspondence regarding the renewal for a period of three years, or until the 1st July 1860, of the contract with Messrs Taylor and Co of Madras for the conveyance of the mails and banghies between Madras and Trichinopoly by horsed carts at the rate of 14 rupees a mile, or a total sum of 2,933 rupees a month, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 8, Correspondence regarding the objection on the part of H Newill, Acting Collector of Guntoor [Guntur], to affix the usual declaration to certain contingent bills of the Post Office Department, standing unadjusted in the accounts of that Collectorate, April 1856 to July 1858.
• Coll 9, Correspondence regarding a revised contract for the conveyance of the mail between Panwell and Vingorla at 638 rupees per month, from the 1st February 1856 to the 31st January 1858.
• Coll 10, Correspondence respecting a question raised by the Civil Auditor of Bombay regarding the mode in which the bills of the mail contractors should be passed, July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 11, Correspondence regarding the case of Tookarambin Dhondee Sawunt, a Peon in one of the Post Offices at Bombay, who demanded and received small sums of money on bearing letters, over and above the amount authorised by the Post Office Act, April 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 12, Correspondence regarding the opening of a new postal line by H B E Frere, Commissioner of Sind, from Hyderabad to Jodhpur via Omerkote [Omarkot], Guddra and Balmeer [Balmer], July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 13, Application for authority to write off to profit and loss of the Jellasore Post Office accounts the sum embezzled by Mr Campbell, while ex-officio Post Master of Jellasore, May 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 14, Further proceedings regarding the Chittagong Post Office robbery, and the arrest of Mr Campbell, late Inspecting Post Master of the Chittagong Division, April 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 15, Correspondence regarding the refusal of H W Reily, Inspecting Post Master of the Dacca Division, to comply with the request of Lieutenant C McMullin, Commanding the Detachment at Dacca, that all letters addressed to the sepoys or non-commissioned officers of the 73rd Regiment of Native Infantry should be forwarded direct to him for inspection and delivery to the parties, July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 16, Report by the Officiating Post Master of Cheerapoonjee [Cherrapunji] on the examination of correspondence passing through the Chirra Poonjee [Cherrapunji] Post Office, 20th July 1857.
• Coll 17, Correspondence recommending that the Bengali Gazettes be conveyed by dak banghy, August 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 18 (2 vols), Reports by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, on a plan for the improvement of the District Post in Bengal, and on the subjects of the District daks in Bengal, the question of the liability of zemindars to maintain runners, and the commutation of that service into a money payment, July 1854 to July 1858.
• Coll 19, Corresponence regarding Sudder Ameens [Sadr Amins] at detached stations being authorised to frank letters on the public service free of postage to all Judicial authorities, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 20, Enquiry by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, whether certain changes in the East Indian Railway Company timetable had been sanctioned by Government, August 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 21, Correspondence regarding the good conduct of Baboo Mohesh Chunder Banerjee, Deputy Post Master at Shergotty [Sherghati], August 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 22, Correspondence regarding the censure of T Garrett, Officiating Deputy Post Master General, for directing the return of the Darjeeling dak packet from Dinagepore [Dinajpur], August 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 23, Correspondence regarding the employment of extra horses from the 1st July 1857 for the conveyance of the mails between Nagpur and Benares at a monthly expenditure of 1,408 rupees, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 24, Correspondence regarding extra runners temporarily employed on the line between Saugor and Nursingpore [Narsinghpur], July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 25, Correspondence regarding authorisation for the Establishment for the Post Office with General Havelock's Column, at a total cost per mensem of 175 company's rupees, and the rewards to the mail coachmen on the line between Allahabad and Cawnpore for good conduct, September 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 26, Correspondence regarding the rejection of an application preferred by Messrs Apcar and Co for a bonus of 2,500 rupees for conveying the mail to Rangoon and Moulmein by the steamer Manchester in May 1857, March 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 27, Representation by Major General Bell, Commanding the Pegu Division, of an extra charge (ship postage) made on all letters received from India in the steamer Manchester, July 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 28, Application by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, to write off to profit and loss the sum of 50 company rupees, charged as contingencies in the cash account of the Sittang [Sittaung] Post Office for the month of June 1854, September 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 29, Correspondence regarding a representation by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, regarding the difficulty which existed in obtaining funds to enable the Executive Officer to make the usual rainy season arrangements for the conveyance of the mails in that portion of the Bombay and Nagpur road which passes through the dominions of His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, June 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 30, Correspondence regarding military officers appointed to perform the duties of station Post Masters under the notification of the 29th July 1857, not to receive an remuneration, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 31, Correspondence respecting the duty to be performed by the chief civil or military authorities who under the orders of the 29th July 1857 had assumed the office of Post Master, August 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 32, Government of India Notification, No.2111, dated 16th October 1857, desiring the public when postage stamp labels were attached to letters and newspapers to attach them invariably at the upper right hand corner on the side on which the address is written, with related correspondence, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 33, Question raised by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, whether it was illegal to levy the ordinary rates of Indian postage upon letters posted in, or received at the Presidency towns to, and from foreign countries, although they may be sent or recieved by Her Majesty's steamers, but not in Her Majesty's mails, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 34, Correspondence regarding letters addressed to officers with the Army exempted from the payment of forward postage, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 35, Correspondence regarding letters addressed by European non-commissioned officers and soldiers on service to their wives and families in India, to be sent free of postage, December 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 36, Correspondence on the scale of postage for book packets sent between India and Great Britain, November 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 37, Correspondence relating to Regimental Savings Banks exempted from the payment of postage, November 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 38, Grant of gratuities to the clerks in the Bombay Post Office for work performed after office hours, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 39, Contingent bills for sums payable to the mail contractor between Broach and Deesa for fast travelling of the mails during the months of March to May 1857.
• Coll 40, Correspondence regarding the continuance of the contract for the conveyance of the mails between Gogo and Bhooj, November 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 41, Correspondence regarding the disbursement of 27 rupees incurred in the payment of a person employed to act as interpreter and medium of communication between the Inspecting Post Master of the Belgaum Division and the Government Vakeel of the Judge's Court at Dharwar on the occasion of the trial of the Deputy Post Master of that district, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 42, Correspondence regarding the Civil Auditor at Bombay directed to audit the fixed sanctioned pay abstracts of the Post Office Department on the signature of such Deputy Post Masters as may have been authorised by the Post Master General or the Director General to submit such documents, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 43, Correspondence regarding sanction accorded to certain expenditure incurred by the Post Master General of Bombay for the conveyance of mails by foot runners in Khandesh and Nimar from 1st December 1854 to 31st December 1856.
• Coll 44, Correspondence regarding the discontinuance of the contract for the conveyance of the mail between Calcutta and Berhampore, May 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 45, Correspondence relating to the construction of the Post Office at Bally, August 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 46, Proposed revision of the salaries of delivery peons, February 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 47, Application by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, for sanction to certain disbursements of money for the construction and purchase of wagons and carts for the Bullock Train Department for the conveyance of troops to the North Western Provinces, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 48, Correspondence regarding the instructions issued to the officers stationed at the stages at which the European troops halt on their way to Benares to afford every aid to the postal authorities in the Bullock Train arrangements, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 49, Correspondence relating to a complaint made by the Officiating Commissioner of Burdwan to the effect that 180 bullocks, supplied by the Magistrate of Howrah to the Government Wagon Train Department, had not been paid for, and that certain palkee bearers sent by the Collector of Hooghly to Barrackpore on the requisition of the Commissariat Department, had been detained for 24 hours without food or money, August 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 50, Correspondence regarding authority granted to the Post Master General of Bengal by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, for the payment of a gratuity of 200 rupees to Baboo Mohesh Chunder Banerjee, Deputy Post Master at Shergotty [Sherghati], for his good conduct during the recent troubles [Mutiny], September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 51, Correspondence regarding the disbursement of the amount in excess of the authorised Bullock Train charges for the year 1856-57, August 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 52, Correspondence regarding a claim preferred by the Englishman newspaper for payment for the insertion of postal notifications, April 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 53, Correspondence regarding mails ordered to be made up for such of Her Majesty's vessels as may proceed from Calcutta to China, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 54, Correspondence regarding money plundered from the Arrah Post Office by the rebels written off to profit and loss, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 55, Correspondence relating to the salary of Dr S Clark, Deputy Post Master at Agra, October 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 56, Correspondence regarding applications from the Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Company for the assistance of Government steamers in the fulfillment of their contract in the Pegu and Tenasserim Provinces, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 57, Correspondence regarding the application from the Bengal Chamber of Commerce for the despatch of a Government steamer to Akyab, Rangoon and Moulmein in place of the contracted Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Company packet, November 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 58, Correspondence relating to the contract mail steamer Cape of Good Hope leaving Moulmein without receiving the mails on board, and to the penalty inflicted on W Peatt Harrison, Officiating Post Master of Moulmein, in consequence, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 59, Correspondence regarding a standing order prescribed to the Commanders of all Government vessels to report their arrival at, and the time of their intended departure from every port, both to the Chief Civil Authority of the place, and to the Post Office, October 1857 to August 1858.