IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 428-453

This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 20 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosures are dated 30 December 1846-13 February 1847.

The item comprises communications between the governments of Bombay and India and their respective Military Departments, and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes of the President and Governor and members in Council, Bombay.

The papers chiefly relate to the following two matters:

• The refusal of Captain James Kilner, Executive Engineer, Aden, to produce, at the private requisition of Captain Samuel Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden, for the inspection of Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, the plans of the Aden Defences, including copies of correspondence of Kilner, Haines, Blackwood and Lieutenant-Colonel C W Grant the Superintending Engineer at Aden, and discussion by the authorities in Bombay as to whether Kilner was discourteous and the degree of blame in the matter to be attributed to Haines
• Approval by the authorities in Bombay of the report by Grant detailing the measures he has directed to be adopted to prevent the recurrence of damage to the town of Aden by future falls of rain (ff 445-447), and a tracing of his original sketch of the ‘Native town of Aden showing the proposed drainage’ (catalogued as sub-item IOR/L/PS/5/449, f 451).

The last two enclosures, the Bombay Times summary of Intelligence and Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier,are noted as ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.