Yj; Ys YY \N \ SS SH NG . \ yyy CME Lie SNS WES GE : MAL eine es pe he : Yi es : se GPCL Cen aoe SAN TN x SS NS eS Lo ~s ‘, Nt ay CLS Se Ae i Le, pe a, ‘ So es ye: ae ¢Ze ZB Z Z Kee RS ae eS a ‘, RNS SS ms so eA ae . x ee ay i GaNyRB s a + i & & E é ] bi5 - aie) Reka tne a) te ee: SG aa Fiat ee Le aMEMORANDUM RECORDS HOME DEPARTMENT, BY J. TALBOYS WHEELER, SECRETARY TO THE RECORD COMMISSION OALCUTT a: A. DOZEY, HOME SECRETARIAT PRESS, 1868.‘ % , : E ® R 3 a J .te hm bo bo ~~ bh — bo Or bo ~~? INTRODUCTION. 1. General character of the Records in the Home Department COWFEN TS. Difference between the Records of the Foreign Office and those of the Home Office . . Subject matter of the earlier Records Condition of the Bengal Settlements before and after the Battle of Plassey, 1757 General rules, instructions and orders, 1758 State of the Secretary’s Office, 1758 Later formation of other Departments of the Government of India Review of the Company’s Establishments, 1785 Branches of the Home Department Formation of the Financial Department, 1843... Four Departments of the Government of India, 1243 Formation of the Bengal Office, 1843 Public Department Proceedings Separate Revenue Proceedings law Department Proceedings Ecclesiastical Department Proceedings Judicial Department Proceedings Revenue Department Proceedings Legislative Department Proceedings Marine Department Proceedings Educational Department Proceedings Electric Telegraph Department Proceedings Post Office Department Proceedings Proceedings of Madras and Bombay Straits Settlement Proceedings Ceded and Conquered Provinces Proceedings Original Records we Indexes to the Home Department Correspondence with the Court of Directors Abstracts of Proceedings . Body Sheets Diaries Java Papers, 1812 to 1817 Newspapers and Gazettes Order Books of the Home Office, 1785 to 1841, and Miscellaneous 63 66 69 a |1, MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. INTRODUCTION. General character of the Records in the Home Department.—The Records which have been preserved in the Home Office are altogether of a different character from those in the Foreign Office, which have already been described in detail in the Memo- randum on that Department, which has been submitted to Government. The Foreign Office was originally a Secret Department, having no sub- stantial existence prior to the year 1753, when it was created by Warren {lastings in consequence of the vast increase in the Secret and Political Branch of the Administration in con- nection with the wars against Hyder and the Mahrattas. But the Home Office, or Public Department, origi- nally contained all the Government Records from the earliest period of Bri- tish rule; and these Records have been preserved in the Home Office to this day, saving those which were removed when the Foreign and Financial Depart- ments were created, and when the Bengal Office became a separate Depart- ment under the Bengal Government. Unfortunately the earlier Records, which would throw an interesting light upon the early history of British Settlementsg MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS nd < in Bengal, are altogether wanting, hav- ing been probably destroyed at the cap- ture of Calcutta bySuraja Dowla, though no doubt duplicates are still in existence amongst the Records of the East India Company which have been preserved in England. The Proceedings of the Public Department, which have been preserved, only date from the year 1752. The General Letters to the Court of Directors commence with the year 1748, or six years before the siege ; and those from tbe Court to the Bengal Government only begin with the year 1753, 9 Difference between the Records of the Foreign Office and those of the Home Office.—The difference between the Records of the Home Office and those of the Foreign Office is a very significant one. The former comprise the history of British administration, from the days when the Company only enjoyed a small territory for commer- cial purposes under sunnuds from the Mogul, to the present day, when its supervision extends more or less over the whole of British India. The Ke- cords in the Foreign Office comprise, on the other hand, the Political history of India, from that critical period in the rise of British supremacy, when it beeame necessary to separate the Foreign administration from the Home. 3. Subject matter of the earlier records.—The earlier records which have been preserved in the Home De- partment are entirely devoted to com- mercial details and petty revenue col- ‘ lections, interspersed here and there with references to the proceedings of the Nabob of Bengal and the rising SO deel a a elIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 3 power of the Mahrattas; or with notices of the arrivals and departures of Company’s servants, mingled with occasional expressions of praise or censure. Even after the re-establish- ment of the British Settlement in 1757 by the battle of Plassey, every little political detail continued to be recorded in the Public Department, until the appointment of a Select Committee under Lord Clive in 1765 ; from which date, and until the creation of a Secret and Political Department in 1783, the Proceedings and Despatches of each successive Select Bengal. Committee were treated as secret records, and appear to have been kept in the personal charge of the President of the Council of Condition of the Bengal Settle- ments before and after the battle of Plassey, 1757.—The condition of the British Settlements during the years immediately preceding the capture of Caleutta by Suraja Dowla in 1756, and those which fol- lowed the return of the English to Cal- cutta in 1757, must always form a special subject of interest in the his- tory of British India, and naturally finds due expression in the records, which have been Home Department. and sentiments in Bengal preserved in the The general ideas which prevailed amongst the Court of Directors as re- gards the aspect of affairs after the battle of Plassey may be gathered from the following extracts from a despatch to the President and Council at Fort William in Bengal, dated 3rd March 1768 :— Para. 3.— As on the late capture of Fort William all your books and papers are said toa eg ee FPO ates + MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS be lost and destroyed, and in consequence you must conduct and proper informations, our letters to you several years youa copy O past and previous to t You will also receive many copies of orders. your own books, Books, and indeed of desired and have be got ready. be at a loss in many respects for rules of we now send hem copies of standing such as Consultation General whatever you have thought necessary, and could 1.—“ Our Settlement in Bengal may in its present condition be looked upon in its infancy. therefore, to lay down some as if 1t was We shall take the opportunity, plans, and such new rules of conduct in many material cases, as we hope will render it of more conset juence to the Company than it ever has been, even in 1, We cannot help, therefore, its best conditio1 remarking that it is a most amazing thing to eonsider that a Séttlement so abounding with ‘ndustrious inhabitants, and flourishing in its trade fora number of years at least, should produce so little profit to the Company. ‘This eannot be easily accounted for from the luxurious, expensive, other ways than and idle manner of life which has too much prevailed for many years before the late calamity among all ranks of our servants; the general effects of which have been inattention and negligence mn most, and dishonesty in many, F com > AC ’ + oi ire , , 5.—“ The present juncture requires very many different behaviours. The circumstances of the Company and your own circumstances as individuals ma necessary ke a reformation abs lutely We therefore most earnestly call upon our superior servants to be careful, indus- trious, and in particular to avoid all parade and shew, and live in the utmost frugality and economy. ‘To be constantly attentive to the conduct and behaviour of the inferior servants, to keep them strictly to their proper business, and from living beyond the limits of their circumstances. «We must add that this is a point of time at which your utmost efforts for the service and general good of your employers are more thanIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. D ordinarily required that you may act herein with a united force. We most earnestly re- commend the greatest harmony and friendship among the Members of your Council, and although difference of opinion on many occa- sions are unavoidable, nay even necessary, yet such differences are not to interrupt the har- mony we recommend, but are to be entered on your consultation for our notice in a plain and fair manner, without the least mixture of pers sonul resentment or altercation.” Oo. General rules, instructions and orders, 1'758.—Perhaps, however, the most perfect picture of Calcutta and the Bengal Settlements generally at this critical period may be gathered from the rules, instructions and orders, which were communicated by the Court of Directors to the Bengal Govern- ment in the same despateh of the 3rd March 1758. After declaring the neces- sity for reform, the despatch reviews in detail, both the condition of the Zemin- dary, and the measures which are pro- posed for its better administration. I¢ prescribes what shall be the future ad- ministration in civil suits, criminal cases, and Police duties; and abolishes anumber of farmed revenues, and in their place substitutes a system of fixed customs both by land and on the banks of the river. It also prescribes the way in which the books shall be kept for the future; and enters into a num- ber of other details, which will be found to indicate with tolerable clear- ness the internal condition of the Colony at the period to which it refers. Accordingly the following extracts are printed here in full :— 93.—‘ The Settlement of Calcutta has long wanted a reform in almost every branch, and disobedience to our orders, the practice of someeae ee ie eae ee ae ea MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS years past ; this together with gross omissions and a total inattention to business had thrown our affairs into great confusion ; and that you may be convinced that we are not too severe in our assertions, we shall here instance a few facts, and many others will follow in the course of these remarks. For these eight years no Quarter Sessions have been transmitted us, nor the remarkable trial of Mr. Macguire for the mangling of Plaisted. Had we in this case been publicly ealled on, such an omission would have brought cruel reflections upon the Com- pany. All presentments by Grand Juries have by this means been sunk, and matters possibly of great importance hid from us. The regis- ters of appeals have not been much better conducted, and those with the Mayor’s Court registers often omitted. To add more is un- necessary. 94.—“ We have now, with some trouble, framed such a system for vour better Govern- ment, as must in our opinion produce con- siderable and lasting advantages to us and all our subjects in Calcutta, and in a few years render it a great and flourishing Colony, provided that these our orders are carried into execution with that zeal, application and fidelity which you owe to your employers; and we here make this positive declaration to all our servants, from the highest to the lowest, that whoever dares to break through, deviate from, or neglect the several rules here laid down, shall most assuredly be dismissed our service ; excepting, however, such parts as you our Governor and Council may deem impracticable or detrimental; and in these cases you are to assign us your reasons full and explicit. 95.—“It appears to us the clearest method to range our regulations under distinct heads, and therefore we will begin with that most exteusive branch the Zemindary. This post, with great part of its power, we judge fit to abolish, or rather separate, and im its stead we substitute an Office the head of which must be ealled Collector of Rents and Revenues, underIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 7 whose management are to be the following articles :— Ground Rent. Duty on sale of houses, 3) 3) Pellahs. sloops and boats. slaves, Ground overplus. Glass-maker’s Farm, Vermillion Fire-work +) 3) Tobacco Shops ,, Dammer and Oakum Farm. Salamy on new sloops and boats, Commission on mortgage bonds. Duty collected on the out towns. J burtben oxen. Bang Shops Farm, Red Lead Salt The Arrack 33 i) d) The 88 villages ceded to us by the Nabob, or whatever may be those acquisitions, 96,— These are all the powers of the Zemin- dary that are to exist under the Collector; the Dammer and Oakum Farm seems to be a heavy tax upon the trader. If we are right in this conjecture, strike it off the List; and we also direct the following alterations :— lst.—All Farms in future are to be put up to public sale by our Governor and Council, and not by the Collector. 2nd.—Regular Books are to be kept up of the Revenues, and by the Collector, and trans- ‘mitted us annually. Monthly accounts are to be delivered to the Board, and the balances punctually paid into the Treasury. 87d.—The Zemindar heretofore determined all differences and disputes betwixt the castes, and fined at his pleasure, and such fines com- posed the Ellack. We now order that the agorieved in all cases apply by petition for redress to the Governor. He in the margin of such petition must name arbitrators and under- write it to our Collectors to have the sameSe Fad Sea leak a ae es ro MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS tion and reported back to him. carried into execu in obedience to this order, The Collector then, ‘sto summon the arbitrators, direct a speedy decision, and when they return their opinion the Collector is to deliver it to the Governor, ho confirms. it with such fine as he shall iis decree is to be placed in w judge proper ; and tl the Collector’s Registry, but the fine must in future be paid to the parties injured, and no part is to be brought to our credit. If the fine should at any time exceed 200 Rupees, and the muleted think themselves aggrieved, they are to appeal to our President and Council. 4th.—In the measurement of ground the directive part is to dwell with the Collector ; he receives all applications to build, plant or en- close, and must issue his orders to the Surveyors of the works (whose appointment and duty will hereafter be explained) for measuring. A. B. so many square yards of ground, de- scribing the spot, the Surveyor must return the Collector his report in writing, who is then to register the same, when it becomes part of the annual collections of the Revenue. 97,—* We are next to consider those powers of the Zemindary that remain, and notice to you such parts as we mean to abolish for the ease of the poor and general good of Calcutta. 98.—* The Civil authority for determining all causes of property betwixt the Natives above 20 Rupees are to be vested in five per- sons. The members you are to name from our servants below Council, one of which is to pre- side as Judge for a year only, and then another is to be elected. These several appointments are to be made by our President and Council, who are to remove them, when the service requires it, and fill up all vacancies as may offer by this means. Deaths or otherwise rules of practice and table of fees you are to settle for them ; and we should think it would be best they nearly corresponded with the methods practised by our own Mayor’s Courts, for we have no very favorable ideas of Ellack Moriamnis, &c.; at least we ‘wish to see them mitigated, if lenity does not increase the evil. The same we say ofIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 9 fines, However, these mafters are left entir ely to your discretion; lesser articles it is needless to particularize, as we shall c observing that all ciyi] c Jurisdiction of the C dwell with these lose this head with ases heretofore in the ourt of Cutcherry are now to persons. In all matters where the dispute exceeds Rupees 100, the parties, if they esteem themselves aggrieved, may appear by petition to our President and Council. The Registers are to be faithfully and exactly kept up and transmitted to us annually, 99.— Tn criminal cases, where the Indians are delingrents, the following methods we judge will answer every end of the Zemin dary : Let the cognizance of all crimes dwell with our Justices of Peace. Three of which are to sit thrice a week and tal ce their rotation (our President excepted) ; and that justice may at no time stop, appoint one of them Judze for a month, this also in a rotation, who may daily ences, and fine small] matters of consequence that may offer in such days as the Justices do not sit, he is directly to summon determine all slight off sums; but in al] @ quorum for redress. But as the laws of England do not authorize to determine offences and inflict such punishments as are warranted by your pher- maund, or rather tolerated by the M ogul for emivent; you are in this capacity to fill them Zemindars and your actine Justice the monthly Zemindar. You must appoint one of our servants clerk to the Zemind ars, & registry must be faithfully kept up, the ir proceedings signed, and on every rotation List of Fines with their reasons for levying them laid before the Board for your approval. 100.—* Another power that will partly fall under these Justices is that of Cutwall. The Major or Commanding Officer ( shown under the Military head) is to order parties of soldiers to patrol the night through, who are to seize all disturbers of the pe as will be ace, vagrants or criminals. These are to be con- fined until the morning, and then they are to be delivered to the sitting Justice, who, if they are Indians, will try them as Zemindars, and if Europeans, as one of His Majesty’s Justices, for you will observe that this regulation for thei ti a a. MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS quorum and monthly Judge is meant by us to extend their jurisdiction to both ; and thus con- will be less confusion than if to hold a distinet branch. at their proceedings in nected there other Justices were We need not point out th different capacities should be kept separate, the same clerk serving both. 101.—* The following are what we order to be abolished, as we never mean to derive advan- tage from methods that may burthen or dis- tress the inhabitants, and they are grievances in that light, and you are that appear to us in. mind that to bear this general remark bitants continue injured wheresoever the inha it is or your trade clogged and prejudiced, as our intention to redress the who point out the same for our examination and le, you are to further directions, v1Z. :— Chest-maker’s Farms. Caulker’s i Vending Tea Catty and old Iron Farms. Pattamar’s Farm. Duty on old timber and plank. Tax on marriages. Fishing Boats. 3) » Scales, weights and measures. , Tom Toms. License for Treats. 102.—‘‘The undermentioned Farms can no longer subsist, because the collections of all duties relative to food, raiment, or trade, will fall under the Head of Customs, viz. :— The Gunge Bazar. Soota Noty Market. The Great Bazar. Baug Bazar and seven Farms. Govindpore Market and three Farms. Dee Calcutta Market. Sam Bazar and New Bazar. Ram Bazar. Dee Caleutta and Bazar. Calcutta Ferry Boats. 103.— And thus having distinguished where the remaining powers of the Zemindary exist, we are next to consider the important article of Customs. 104.— We are fully persuaded the grossest abuses have for a long time been committed,IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. tL and we fear connived at, and that we have been annually defrauded of the greatest part of our duties. Our sentiments with some regula- tions were transmitted you in 1756; but as we intend now to make a thorough change in this branch by adopting a plan which we please ourselves must operate to our benefit and the advantage of the fair trader, those alterations are to be disregarded, and you are to adhere strictly to the orders we shall now lay down. 105.— Those farms where duties were col- lected, and food, raiment, necessaries, or mer- chandize being now set aside, customs are to be collected on every article that comes into or goes out of Calcutta. To enumerate such is unnecessary, perhaps impracticable. The general customs at Madras is five per cent., Bombay 43 on Imports and Exports; and in Calcutta, in consideration of your present distresses, we order only 4 per cent. to be levied. Your own diseretion will guide you to charge more or less on particular commodities. On vege- tables, oranges, limes, poultry, &c., necessaries for the inhabitants, in Madras 24 per cent. is charged, and at Bombay 2 per cent. only ; but then on articles whose exports or imports may affect the Settlement, higher duties are levied, for instance all kinds of grain imported pays 3 per cent., exported 6 per cent., salt brought in 34 per cent., carried out 20 per cent. ; cocoanuts, cassia, onions, timber, chunam 34 per cent., and exported 9; horses and mules 6, and opium imported 9 per cent. In like manner you are to regulate the duties on particular articles, as circumstances at Calcutta may direct. Rice, we think, may be fixed at 4. or 3 per cent. on import, and Jess in times of scarcity ; but the exports, it is our opinion, should never be under 7 or 8 per cent. ; for as this is a large and often a very profitable trade, high duties will be the securest means to keep your Settlement in a state of plenty. 106.—“ The methods our Custom Masters must pursue are those practised at Bombay, or Madras. The former seems much the clearest, and in this packet are the Customs Books for one year of each Presidency, where you willFa eT ain at Pee Tae 12 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS observe the duties are daily entered, each entry containing in one columned line the proprietor, from whence imported or exported to, the ship or vessel’s name, the several species of goods, their weight or measure, the rates or amounts. Customs monthly accounts are to be laid before the Board, the balances punc- tually paid into our Treasury, and the annual Books transmitted us. 107.—“ As your bounds are extensive and the consulage abolished, there will be a neces- sity of having two Custom Houses and two Custom Masters; the principal Custom House must be by the river side. We find there is a house of ours very suitable for this purpose, which, if not sufficiently commodious, must be made so, as also large and convenient landing places. All sea imports and exports are to be collected here, and the head of this Office is to be called Sea Custom Master. All goods, merchandize and bullion imported at Calcutta are to be landed here and nowhere else ; whoever transgresses must be dismissed our service ; if European sent to England, and the goods forfeited one-half to our use, and the other half to the informer, the same penalty shall fall on those who presume to land any one article without permission first obtained. The party must apply to the Custom Master, signifying the particulars and declaring himself accountable for the duties. 108.—“ The other Custom House should be erected near the extreme of your bounds and most contiguous to the great thorough- fares from ‘the Continent. Here dutjes are to be levied on all goods introduced to Calcutta or sent out to the Continent, observing, howe; er, that no goods are to pay us double customs, unless the property is changed at every en- trance to thetown. Our Custom Master shoull have small enard houses or chowkeys. All articles whatever to be bronght to this Custom House and nowhere else, and the offenders to suffer in such cases the penalty already ment “ The person who presides in this ] loned, ranch you are to call Land Custom Master, and the Books are to be kept and transmitted in theIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 18 same manner as directed with respect to the Sea Customs. 109.—* As we cannot be too cautious in the prevention of smuggling, the Sea Custom Master may, if you think it expedient, have guard-boats assigned him from the Marine to patrol the river nightly, and as we shall, under the Military regulations, order European guards to go their rounds from ten at night to five in the morning throughout your boundaries, we shall hope these iniquitous practices will be cut off, and do you promise a tempting share of all seizures to these Officers and their people. 110.—“ Let all ships’ passes, when signed ad sealed, be delivered to our Customs Master, and by him to the Commander, a method that will prevent any persons departing before our customs are paid. 111.—“ So soon as you have agreed and settled our duties to be collected on all articles, let them, together with our orders and penalties annexed, be transeribed in very large legible letters in the several languages and signed by our Governor. Let such be framed and hung up in the most conspicuous places at our Custom House, that every one may know the duties to be paid and the penalties he may suffer, 112.—* As the carrying into execution this great and important plan will require steadi- ness and strict application, we shail place the principal part with Mr. Beecher, depending upon his integrity and the exertion of his abilities in every shape without favor or par- tiality. He may rely upon our supporting him in his duties, and we hope he will merit this mark of our confidence. He is accordingly ap- pointed our Sea Custom Master. What regards appointments relative to this branch, will be found in the following part of this letter : 113.—* Lastly, it is our express orders that duties are collected on all goods brought into town under your dusticks agreeable to the general rates you may settle, as also on all goods the Moguls, Armenians, &c., foreigners shall bring in for exportation in your freightoe Nia Oat SL ed oe MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS ships or other ways, for it is our meaning that none shall be exempt from paying our full duties on every article brought into or carried out of the Settlement. * % % % * 118.— The General Books for these many years have been swelled to an enormous s1Z@ by the multiplicity of useless heads. ‘This, to- gether with the liberties you have taken of creating innumerable entries for private con- venience of individuals, have rendered them intricate and confused. We have now made many alterations and amendments too long to be inserted here, therefore they are under No. in this packet and signed by our Auditor, and we positively direct you to keep strictly up to those rules. When these books are curtailed and modelled in the manner now prescribed, no new heads are to be opened but with the permission of our President ; and as your bo vs have been generally basely copied, entries fre- quently erased, posting omutted, with other un- pardonable irregularities, the person found cul- pable in any of these instances, together with him who signs as Examiner, shall assuredly fee] our resentment. 119.—“ The Secretary’s Office has in like manner been badly managed. Your eonsulta- tions for several years past wrote in such a vile manner as not to be legible in many places, Indexes often omitted, the Registers, as already noted, either not punctually kept up or trans- mitted us. In short the business in every branch at your Settlement has been conducted in such a loose and negligent manner as to reflect shdme upon those in trust with our affairs. You our Governor and Council must set the example of order, method and application, the junior servants should be taught obedience and kept strictly to their duty, the necligent admonished, and where admonition fails sug- pend them the service until our pleasure is known. “The Madras method of indexing their con- sultations is so plain and intelligent, that we direct you to put the same in practice. One of those for your guidance is enclosed in this packet,IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 15 129.— Protections were originally intended to secure on property and meant by us to be granted our contractors, brokers, and other useful persons connected with our affairs, and to none else ; but for many years they have been given indiscriminately, {00 often we fear to serve private purposes. To remedy this great evil in future, we order that every merchant craving our protection shall present a petition to the Governor and Council, settine forth his motives or pretensions for such favor. If his request is granted, the reasons are to be assigned in your consultations; he is then to be recis- tered by the Secretary, and a list of those who have our protection with a proper description to be transmitted us annually, 130.—“ There never surely was a time when the situation of the Company’s affairs or that of their servants of all ranks, as well as of those who are resident in India under the Company’s protection, so loudly called for a general refor- mation. If that regard (which we really look upon to be due) is to be paid to the truth of your representation of the distressed situation of our once flourishing Settlement of Fort William, no attempt should be neglected for restoring it to something like its former lustre, and necessity must now enforce what prudence would always have suggested to those who attend to her dictates. Should the economy we recommend to our servants of all ranks be as general as their situation requires, it must banish that false shame which is too often the attendant of those weak minds whose il! jadeed desires in an inferior situation in regard to rank or fortune put them upon following the examples of their superiors either in their vicious. or luxurious indulgences, but not to incur a censure formerly passed on us in a like occasion though we are endeavouring rather to recommend and persuade where weare autho- rized to command. We will only add that we doubt not but our servants who are disposed to reflect will be very sensible, before we close our letter, that we are not acting on arbitrary or parsimonious principles, but on such which have frequent for object the true and last- ing interest of the Company, and that of everyee bed oa - Dee aii ites tes oat ed Fae 16 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS ant acting under them, and individual serv great est that such of them who show the zeal and readiness for conducting the affairs under their several de establish our general plan under the direction n will be most entitled to our future and will not fail to receive partments in order to now give favor and protection, proofs of our attention thereto. AiG 1s OUT intention to have struck off the various articles of allowances to our servants from the President to the writer, and have fixed neral appointment to each rank for one ge the shortness of salary, diet money, &e.; but he despatch of the ships not permitting us to digest the references and ave made 1n the time before t observations, we must of course | those of ourother Presidencies, we have deter- mined to let the several allowances remain on the foot they have for some time subsisted from the gentlemen of Council to the factor ; but as we are sensible that our junior servants of the rank of writers at Bengal are not upon the whole on so good a footing as elsewhere, we do hereby direct that the future appointment to a writer for salary, diet money, and all allow- ances whatever be current Rupees 400 per annum, which mark of our favor and attention properly attended to must prevent their reflec- tions on what we shall further order in regard to them as having any other object or founda- tion than their particular interest and happi- pess, 199 Tr 214 122.—” There is no part of the 80th para- graph of our general letter of the 23rd January 1754, per Denham York, Norfolk, that does not merit your particular attention, one of which we are determined to enforce from a persuasion that the indigence of our junior servants which may too often have been the effect of their vices and the imitation of their seniors hath not a little contributed to increase that load of com- plaint which has been so strongly and repeated- ly ureed by the Nabob inr ) | 8 1 by the Nabob in regard to the abuse of usticks practice sticks, a practice we have ever disclaimed, and are determined to show in future the stronvest marks o ' reser 7 g rin o@ % 4 . : ° ‘ every one aspiring’ to the rapid acquisition of Cf laal> ‘ : lacks, and tO return to pass the prime of éé mw lyxvac « , ; their livesat Home, as multitudes have done i fee 5 J a} before them. Neither will the revenues of t} L1S tix; ae ae country suffice for such boundless pretensions ensions, ce Se PTE ida : nor are they compatible with yours and the C6 we ol + rp ; national interests, which may eventual] suffer \ JIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 93 At “as certain a ruin from the effects of private ‘competition and the claims of patronage as ‘from the more dreaded calamities of war, or “the other ordinary causes which lead to the “decline of dominion.” 7. In one word, we enjoin you to allow no such embarrassine reflection to occupy your thoughts in the consideration of your Establish- ments ; your sole rule is to be the exigency of the public service, and you are not to continue upon the Establishment of any one Department, any one Office, or any one salary not warranted by the real exigency of the service. a 8. By the late Act of Parliament, the Legis- lature has established, by positive declaration, the justice of promoting our servants abroad by gradation. For the purpose of carrying into effect this principle as literally as can be dune consistently with the good of our service, and a necessary attention to the peculiar merits and qualifications of our servants, we would recommend it to your particular considera- tion how far it may not be practicable to divide the Offices you may find it necessary to keep up into different classes according to their value ; and ifsucha division canbe made, it will na- turally occur to you to distribute the Offices of highest value amongst our servants of the old- est standing, observing the application of the same principle to the other subordinate Offices. 9. Weare sensible that,in the application of this principle, modifications and exceptions must become necessary, one will obviously occur that there may be servants now in possession of more valuable Offices than is consistent with their rank, according to the rules we have suggested for your future distribution; and it may likewise very probably occur in many instances that persons thus prematurely pro- moted may be peculiarly well adapted for the situations they enjoy, and that the removal of them to make way for others would be of prejudice to our service. 10, Inall such cases we are sensibie it will be necessary for you to make exceptions ; but we desire you to be particularly cautious not to24, MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS extend this exception beyond its real intention ; and, above all, not to keep up any unnecessary Offices upon the plea of rewarding past services, We reprobate such a principle. Meritorious ser- vants must look for reward as vacancies occur, and the exception we have warranted is confined to the case where the Office is essential to be kept up, and where you might be embarrassed by the arrangements we have made in deciding by whom it is to be held. 1]. There is another general principle which we direct you to observe in the formation of your different Establishments. We shall, in the course of this Despatch, point out to you the general branches or Departments under which we intend our business in future to be conducted ; and it will, of course, be your duty to appro- priate a competent Establishment for conduct- ing the business of these respective Depart- ments. In making this appropriation, you will be particularly attentive to the peculiar quali- fications of the servants allotted to each, for it 1s our intention that they should remain as much as possible affixedto those pat ticular Departments, and rise in them in regular gradation where no particular demerit occurs to interrupt it. 12. We conceive this principle, being adopted and adhered to, will be attended with important advantages. It will ensure our various De- partments of business being supplied with ser- vants regularly trained in the business of the Department to which they belong. It will be oreat means of checking wanton and _ partial supersessions ; neither is it justly hable to the A objection of being a damp to the ardour and emulation of able and diligent servants ; fox there will still remain offices enough within the patronage of the Supreme Government, and not officially connected with any of the Depart- ments into which our business is divided; and we trust and direct that the Supreme Govern- ment do attend to extraordinary merit in respect of abilities and diligence in the disposal of the Oflices of this latter description, ‘) ne \ 13. In making up your Establishments to be oO reported Home for our final revision, we desireIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, you te attend to the following circ umstance: We observe there are employed monthly writers and other Native servants in the various branches of our service ; and we have reason to believe that many-.articles of business ean be performed by them equally well and at infinitely less expense than by any*European servants, If this has been the foundation of employing them in our service, the employing them merits our appro « bation ; but if thev have been employed to do the business of writers and others in our we cannot pass over a practice of that kind without marking it with our disapprobation, as subversive of all order, and introductory to every species of idleness and dissipation, in our Settlements. We mean not, however, at present, to take any retrospective view of this practice, at put we desire you to advert to it in the for- mation of your Establishments, with a view to the economy so requisite in our affairs 14. You will recollect that you are now employed in forming a standard Establishment for conducting the business of each Office. We ire perfectly aware that confidential situations, in general, ought to be filled up by Nuropean servants, and accordingly a proper supply must ilways be kept up; but from what we have observed and learned upon good information, we are confident that considerable saving of -xpense in our Establishments may be effectuated DY employing Natives In copying’ papers, and in other subordinate occupations ; and we lirect you to attend to this circumstance in reporting to us your advice what we ought to adopt as our standard Establishment. 15. Although we have deemed it expedient to leave with you the detail of retrenchments, Mees we consider it equally. so to inform you of the a ‘= v decision we have eome to upon some important arrancements in the conduct of our business abroad. rid L6. Instead of the various sub-divisions of Departments by which the business of our Settle- ments is now conducted, it is our order that theMEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS whole detail should be carried on under the following Branches :— lst:—The Board of Counc ; 2nd.—A Military Board ; 28y7.—A Board of Revenue ; and 4th.—A Board of Trade, 7: Pre first of these Boards is_ to be the came in its constitution as the Council lately established by the Act of Parliament for regu- lating the affairs of India, and with which, s constituted, the Legislature has entrusted the Supreme Government of our respective Settle- ments: in them is vested the general Executive Government, together with a superintending power over every other Department, subject only, inthe exercise of their authority, to such rules and limitations as the Legislature has pre- 1 seribed. The superior Council will still conti- nue to actin its double Department of public and secret, and the duties respectively belong- ‘no to each seem to be accurately defined in th Se Minute of the Governor General and Council of he 23rd of September 1783. to which we refer t you, except in so far as in the definition of the business of the Public Department, it men- tions “matters which regard commerce and shipping.” Our intention is that matters of that description are to belone to the Commercial 2 Department "7 vf j] j ‘ ) ode The LLyilary Board. 18. We direct that this Board consist of, Ist, the Commander-in-Chief; 2nd, the Senior Officer at the Presidency - 3rd, the Senior Offi- cer of Artillery ; ith, the Chief Engineer ; 5th, the Adjutant General ; 6th, the Quarter Mastei General; and 7th, the Commissary Gene- ral. It is not our intention, by the institution of this Board, to erect any Military Authority in your Settlement ingny degree, independent of the superior Civil Executive Government of the country, as vested in the Board of Council ; but we are of opinion that much bene- fit will be derived from this institution, in the de- tail of such business as is immediately connected with the regularity, the economy, and the effective strength of our Army.iN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Q27 19. It will be their business to examine into the state of the Musters of the troops, and to give Yue strietest attention that all the Hstablishments are kept up to the4 ment, uilcomple- 20. It wiil be part of their duty to be re- gularly informed of the amount, both in quan- tity and quality, of provisions, ammunition, and stores of every kind in our Forts, Granaries and Garrisons. 21. It must be their province to attend to the Artillery, Arms and Implements of Eneineer- in@, so that our Settlements may be amply pro- vided with every thing requisite for the com- plete equipment of an Army on the shortest warning, “2. We only mention these particulars as an illustration to point out the nature of the duty to be performed by this Board, meaning that every article of Military expenditure shall come under their revision and control. But we desire to have it explicitly understood that no part of the discipline of the Army, nor the distribution of the Troops, nor the application of the Force, is to fall under their authority : but all these particulars are to remain exclusively with the Supreme Government, and the Com- mander-in-Chief respectively ; neither do we mean that they are to have the power of issuing money or granting warrants for the issuing of money on any account or pretence whatever. We mean them asa Board of refer- ence and report, for the purpose of inspection, and to prevent abuses and deficiencies. 23. Of reference from the Supreme Council upon all matters of Military detail, so far as the expenditure of money is concerned. We, therefore, direct our Supreme Council to make use of the Military Board in this point of view, in order that the expenditure of the public > money in contingent articles may be sanctioned by the opinion of the Officers who constitute this Board. We do not mean that the Supreme Council are bound to refer such points for their consideration, or that they should be bound to act by their opinions when they have receivedMEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS any mate- them ; but we do expect that, before head of rial issue of money 1s ordered on the Military charges, the Supreme Council will eonsider it as a useful eheck against extrava- eance, if material articles of Military expendi- ture are previously considered and reported upon by Officers whose situations and profes sions lead them to be particularly conversant In the knowledge of every article of Military expense. 94. Although to report upon references made tothem by the Supreme Council w ill forn the duty of this Mauli- tary Board, itis not to be their only duty Wi a very essential part of consider it as an essential p of the Board, and we direct that they ] larly attend to the various branches 0! Military detail to which we have alluded, and that they recularly, from time to time, report Supreme Couns ‘l the state and condition of th fallin unde respective arti les of service their insrection O° .” 1} ‘ : 1. to ? : ae If there 1s amy dlilerence { Opto = co , { amon & them, either mn matters rt ferred to then hae i Rtas eee . { vy the Superior Couneil, or in points, the con sideration of which has originated with them selves,—such differences of opinion, with thi grounds of them, are to be specially rep rted by then 96. We direct that without delay y« rm in concert with the Officers who are to con- stitute thi Board, such fix¢ d Rules and R oulas tions ior t} Ci nduct { [ Ebel L} ri S a m2ay € ffectually ensure the nieans of their being fur- nished with such reo lar Returns from inierlol Departments éisSmav en b] Thnen 1 { ndu t their business with despate! \d reeularit th Var { re port I WO { pro (| os tr you, and you are to transn them to In se parate despat he under he he | Viilitarvy OF VY . : ‘ Whe YX u W l] likey Ise on t rmine \ hat oy tablishment may | : requisite { } the ynduct of our business in their Department, and you YY ry }) " 1} Sey : will, from our Covenanted Servants, allot a Secretary and such other Assistants as may beIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 29 necessary, with allowances adequate to the duties and services to be performed by them; but in settling these allowances, you will attend to the same spirit of economy which it is our inten- tion to introduce into every other Department. 28. We trust the regulations you ~ shall frame, and the instructions you shall give to the different servants under you connected with Military business, will be sufficient to bring before the Military Board every material of information necessary for them to be possessed of; butif at any time either additional instruc- tions or oceasional orders shall be requisite, they are to apply for them to the Superior Council. 29. After having thus laid before you such outlines of this business as may enable you to institute and regulate this Board, we think proper to conclude with a repetition of our ex- plicit declaration that this Military Board is to possess no authority exclusive of, and indepen- dent of, the Supreme Civil Government, but are in all respects to act under you, and through the medium of your authority, Board of Revenue. 30. Various plans have been devised and earried into execution within these fifteen years for the collection ot the revenue, it is no part of our intention at present to enter into a dis- cussion of the merit or demerit of these various plans ; but thus far we are clear that the frequent variations of system which have oc- curred have been attended with much incon- venience and great expense. It is, therefore, full time to adopt a settled plan, and for that purpose we direct that there be a Board of Revenue to reside at Calcutta, to consist of one of the junior Members of Council, without any addition to his present salary, and four other of the most intelligent of the senior servants of the Company. 31. To this Department is to belong (sub- ject to the control of the Superior Council) the whole Administration, Settlement, Collec- tion and Receipt of every branch of our Reves nues, together with the control of the several Officers concerned therein ; but they are to have30 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS no power of issuing any money for any pur- poses whatever, except in consequence of orders or warrants from the Board of Council, in whom this authority is to be exclusively vested. 39. We think it unnecessary to detail the particular regulations by which you are to ar- range this Department. We think 1t sufficient to refer you to the institution of the present Com- mittee of Revenue, upon the foundation and principle of which we mean this Board should be established, and the general line of their duty to be the same. fi yey, The experience you have had of the eonduct of your business of Revenue in the hands of the Committee of Revenue will en- able you to judge how far the original regula- tions of that institution will admit of correction or improvement ; and to that consideration your serious attention will be directed ; and, with respect to Collectors and all other Officers sub- ordinate to the Board of Revenue, you will, in eoncert with them, give a complete revision to the whole system of the Establishment, and will arrange it with due attention to the strictest economy, and to the general rules which we have preseribed for your conduct. 34. We trust that lone before this time you have made great and useful progress in this business ; and if, in the arrangements you have already made, either from motives of lenity, or from your having been over-persuaded by the importunity or remonstrances of our vervaute, your measures have not coincided with the rules we now prescribe, you will revise your own conduct in those respects, and conform your- selves to the orders we have given, 20. We think it almost unnecessary to add, aS in justice to you we must suppose, that, immediately upon the receipt of our letter of the llth April last, you will have, according to the terms thereof, reduced the whole of our Revenue expenses within the sum of seventy- two laes of sicca Rupees. The further orders and directions we a *- 2 ecllons we now give are founded onaIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, ol full conviction that, by a steady a dherence to the principles we have dire cted you to observe, a permanent Establishment may be formed for the administration and collection of our revenues considerably below the large sum of seventy- two lacs of sicca Rupees, 36. As an essential part of the conduct of this Board of Revenue will be connected with a steady adherence to just and uniform prin- ciples in their transactions with the Zemindars and other Landholders in the Provinces under our Government, we have bestowed much atten- tion upon that subject,—to arrange a final system upon that head would certainly require other aids than that of general theory, and would require the benefit of local knowledge ; but being possessed, as we are, of much useful information by the able writings of our servants in India, who have discussed that subject, and having the still further advantage of the assis- tance of some of our most able and experienced servants, Who are now in Eneland, we propose, In One of the early ships of this Season, to transmit to you our sentiments upon the general principles which we conceive o ught to operate in regulating the tenures of the Land- holders in India. 37. The Proceedings of our Board of Revenue will of course be regularly reported to you, and by yon transmitted to us in a separate Packet under the head of Revenue Department. Board of Trade. 98. This Board forms the remaining De. partment. The duties of it are to be the as those of the present Board of Trade, but very same different in their constitution ; for, in place of the inefficient principles upon which the present Board is formed, we direct that a new Board be constituted, consisting of the Member of C remaining Junior ouncil as President, without any additional allowance, and four other Members selected from among the senior servants of the Company, to whom competent allowances, adequate to the importance of their situation, must be given, either by established Salaries in heu of all emoluments, or by allowancesee ~—_ a alee Died bei a 7 ea ORDS MEMORANDUM ON THE REC ultimately depending upon their success in’ the sale of our exports and the purchase of our investments. 89. We do not positively direct you to adopt either the one or the other mode ot provision for the Members of the Board of Trade, lest some olyjection, unforeseen by us, we are much inelined to be might occur ; but h. regard to the of opinion that, as well wit Members of the Joard of Trad any respect con- e as with regard to every other servant in cerned in the purchase of our Investments, or the sale of Export Goods, a considerable part of their emolument should depend upon the success of our sales ‘n Great Britain, as, by their own interest would be such a regulation, the best qualities deeply concerned in procuring of goods in the assortment of our invest- ments. 40. We direct that the Board of Trade, as now to be constituted, should be subject, like all other Departments, to the superintendence and control of the Superior Council. Many snconveniences have arisen from the present Board of Trade having been formed and hav- ing acted upon other principles. 41. It is not our intention that th Superior Council should wantonly, or without urgent cause, interfere in the measures which the Board of Trade may see cause to adopt for the conduct of our commercial concerns ; but if they shall be of opinion that there is urgency sufficient to call for their interference, we direct the Board of Trade implicitly to obey, if, after respectful remonstrance to the Superior Council, they should still think pro- per to adhere to their original opinion, the responsibility will then rest upon them, and we shall be the ultimate judges. 42. The whole Proceedings of the Board of Trade will of course be reported to the Superior-Council, and by them transmitted t us in a separate packet under the head of Com- mercial Department. 43. You will consult the Board of Trade, as newly constituted, upon the proper Estab-IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, lishment of servants to be allotted for the con- duct of our commercial concerns, taking care tbat on no account the expenses of our Com- mercial Department exceed the limitation préscribed by our Despatches of the 11th April last. 44. Indeed we must, in a most especial manner, 1nculeate to you the propriety of form- ing our Commercial Establishments upon the strictest Commercial principles. The territoriay revenues are a valuable commercial resource if viewed in the lieht of an extended and beneficial enlargement of our capital. But they will ultimately be productive of the most baneful consequences, not only to our own commercial interests, but to the general pros- perity of the Empire, if, by means of these collateral resources, a system of waste and extravagance should prevail in the formation of our Commercial Establishments, altogether incompatible with the genuine principles of mercantile economy, 45. Upon this subject it only remains to add that, notwithstanding the division of depart- ments we have pointed out for the regular con- duct of our business, if the Governor General should see cause to give his personal attendance at any of the Boards, he shall at all times be at liberty to do so, and when he does attend, shall preside at the Board, and have a casting voice in case of equality. 16. As we take it for granted you will in- stantly carry into execution the arrangements for the conduct of our business which we have now ordered, it only remains for us, upon this subject, to inform you that all our subsequent Despatches on that supposition will be addressed to youin your Public Department, Secret De- partment, Military Department, Revenue De- partment, or Commercial Department. 17. Despatches under the two first addresses will, of course, remain with the Superior Council in one of its Departments, public or secret, and orders will be given by them to the inferior Boards conformable to the Despatches they shall receive in their Military, Revenue, and Commer- cial Departments.St ae ii a al MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS 48. By this means all correspondence will continue to pass through you, at the same time, by a sub-division of the detail of our business. The whole will be conducted with recularity, despatch, and economy. 49, Despatches from you are to come address- ed to us under the same heads of Public, Secret, Military, Revenue, and Commercial, and the business of this Court will be arranged by us in a manner corresponding thereto, except so tar as concerns business of a secret nature, which, 1n terms of the Act of Parliament, must be con- ducted through the medium of the Secret Committee. 50. We have lone regretted an abuse which is now become so prevalent, and has gone to such an extent, that we must be peremptory in taking the most effectual measures to put an end to it. We allude to the practice of our servants having aecess to, and transmitting home to their privat correspondents, such part ot our records as they think proper; our ofders, therefore, are that no person but the Members of the different Boards shall have access to their records, except the Secretaries of such Boards, and those entrust- ed by them, and that no private copies shall bi | civen thereof, except to the President of each Board if he shall desire it. To these persons so entrusted we shall look for responsibility ; and if coples of any of our papers, correspon. denee, or records shall be discovered in th possession of any persons not warranted by the Government, either at home or abroad, we shall certainly take the most effectual measures in our power to discover by whose means the communication has been made, and will dismis: {rom our service any person who shall be found { culty of disobeying hese our orders. oS 51, Another practice of a simular nature like- wise calls for our animadversion. Many of om servants, possessing? Our most conti lential situations, are accustomed to indulge them- selves, without reserve corr a oa ithout reserve, in corresponding, by iCILE ‘ » jetters \O he | ly ffs} ir private letters, upon the public affairs of the Company. This is attended with manv ine n- venlences, and is directly contrary to ow repeatedIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, oo orders, and we desire you will take the most effectual means to prevent it; and if any of our servants presume to continue in a practice so contrary to our wishes and orders, we shall certainly mark our disapprobation by the severest tokens of our displeasure, d2. It is incumbent, upon us further, to inform you that a practice has sometimes prevailed of late, of our servants abroad, sends ing home public letters to the care of persons resident in this country, to be delivered by them or not as in their discretion they shall think proper. We prohibit any such practice in future, and direct that all letters to us from our servants abroad be addressed directly to the Court of Directors, and sent by the usual conveyance. No other will be received by us. 53. Your letter from the Secret Department of Inspection, dated 31st January last, has been received, and we think it proper, without delay, to remark on several of the particulars it con- tains, 04, The principles of reform laid down in the five first Resolutions you passed, as contained in the 7th paragraph of your letter, have our entire concurrence, and it was upon similar grounds our directions for reduction were viven in the separate letter of the 11th April last. 99. Weare highly satisfied with the strict injunction mentioned in the 11th paragraph, to have been given by you to the Committee of Revenue, for reducing as far as possible the expenses of the Collectorships and other Ollices and Establishments dependent on that Committee, and we trust that, by the exertions of the Committee, in consequence of your before-mentioned injunctions, every requisite retrenchment has been or will be~made. We avoid entering into a discussion of any of the particular reductions you mention you have made in the Revenue Department; but we desire you not to infer either approbation or disapprobation from our silence, for, having left the detail of the retrenchments in the first 7 x instance in your hands, we reserve ourselvesMEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS till the whole ts completed, and will not pledge ) to the continuance of any particular office, till, by review of the whole of your work, ourselves upon a partial view of the subject a complete we are enabled to judge how far our expecta- tions are fulfilled, and our orders completely carried into execution. BG «BY the 21st paragraph of your letter we observe you have resolved to abolish thre of the Adawluts only, but we are of opinion more may yet be done on this head. The very large salaries given to the Judges of the Adawluts call for serious attention, and we rely on you to make every further this branch of expenditure that may be prac- ticable; but we are the less anxious to be parti- eular in that examination at present, because we think the whole system merits revision. It is a question well worthy of ¢ ynsideration whe- ther the Adawduts should at all be distinet from the power of the Collectors, and upon that subject we shall transmit to you our s¢ ntiments by some of the early ships of the season. 57. The commission allowed to the Comp- troller and Salt Agents, you appear to have reduced exactly in the proportion ordered by us, in our separate letter of the llth of Apmil; and we are pleased to find you have abolished the Deputy Agents; but we must particularly direct a compliance with our further orders for abolishing the salaries of the Comptroller and Agents, as we are of opinion the commission will be a sufficient recompense for thei services. Jor this reason: also We disapprove. of the Resolution contained in the 23rd paragraph ef your before-mentioned letter “of taking into consideration the claims of the oricinal Officers employed from the commencement of this institution, and ordering a reward to their services in having heen the means of increasing the fund ;’ for as the commission drawn bs those Officers increased of course with the fand, and appears to have been a very ample allow- » ance, so we cannot admit of the least necessityIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, existing for making them any further pecuniary compensation. 08. In giving our negative to this Resolu- tion, because we think it an unnecessary expen- diture, we desire to have it perfectly understood that we are fully sensible of the useful services of those concerned in the business of the Salt Department, o9. When we consider the alarming decline of the Salt revenue in the year 1780, and for which no remedy seemed for some time to present itself, we acknowledge ourselves in- debted to the abilities and zeal of Mr. Hastings fora plan suggested and completed by him; which not only retrieved that branch of trade and revenue, but produced an effective benefit to the Company beyond our most sanguine expectation. It is also with pleasure that we remark the industry and talents displayed by Mr. Henry Vansittart, the Comptroller, in car- rying the plan into execution, 60. Upon the subject of Salt, as indeed upon every other article of revenue, we must take this opportunity of expressing our direc- tions that the statements transmitted to us be made up at all times with accuracy and perspe- culty. In your letter of the 27th of November 1752, when the first year was closed, you say, that the net “profit had exceeded 25 lacs of Rupees,’ and to proceed to inform us that “ the probable real increase of revenue to the Company will be near 30 laes of Rua- pees,” which we suppose is exclusive of the former produce of Government Customs. Then in your letter of 4th of April 1783, paragraph 15, you state the profit which you were well assured of realizing, at no less than Rupees (57,25,673-15) fifty-seven lacs twenty-five thousand six hundred and seventy-three and fifteen annas. Mr. Larkins, in his remarks on the accounts laid by us before the Hon’ble the Hlouse of Commons, estimates the produce of the year 1785 at Rupees (45,00,000) forty-five lacs; yet in your estimate of your receipts and disbursements for the year 1784-85, which required every possible degree of accuracy, you take it at no more than Rupeesi alia isa El O93 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS (35,00,000) thirty-five lacs; from su different statements it is difficult to form any steady conclusion ; and if we were to rest on them only, we should be induced to dread a diminution of our Salt revenue, but we are encouraged to the contrary expectation by the information of ow servants lately arrived from India. 61. We think it incumbent on us to say, whilst we are drawing into our own Treasury the prof eontractors and merchants, that it is not oul » } ; ts on Salt, which used to be enjoyed by wish in general to assume to ourselves any arti- eles of the internal trade of our proviuces which can be conducted by private merchants, paying a suitable duty to Government. But 1 urd to the Salt when individuals could not Te! Or be found to engage in it on any terms, which could with prudence be accepted, and there was danger that the manufacture would be lost Bengal, the attempt was judicious. Now that it has been rendered successful by employing the Company’s capital, we think the Company may, with great justice, continue to possess the emolument. 62. We would not, therefore, make any alteration in the mode of conducting this Depart- ment farther than we have already ordered in our letter of the 11th April, with regard to th salaries and commission of the Comptrollers and Agents, which we here confirm. 65. I experience has proved that the pian mentioned by you in your letters of 22nd De- ecember 1781], paragraph 19, and 28th Octobe: 1783, paragraph 40, of putting the land re- venue of the Salt Mehals under the eare of the Comptroller of Salt has had salutarv effect: towards supporting this important resour at the same time in econtributine to the sat} > , ne ; . } 1 faction of the Zemindars and Molunechees. wi se | authorize the same to he continued. , XY ie ieee oe , }] j A 64. We trust that you will take sufficie care that there do not accrue any outstandino , ; | = - balances. ithe amona'st the manutacturey O} 4 : , , 5 the purchasers of the Companvy’s Salt, whieh. 1f { ‘ | { Ve MIPAt CVCLLuUA HOU pl VOVIV Muarded acain + ~ +IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, cause a very serious defalcation from our appa- rent profits. 65. We desire you will inform us whethe any, and what, loss the Customs of the Port of Calcutta may have sustained from your prohi- biting the importation of all foreign Salt into Bengal, and what market you conceive there will now be for the Salt formerly manufac- tured upon our own possessions on the C of Coromandel. oast 66. You will also acquaint us, from time to time, what is the price of Salt to the: retail merchants and eonsumers in various towns or murungs in Bengal and Behar. We approve the measures vou adopted for ha 9,40,450 maunds as mentioned in your letter of disposing of 25th November 1780, paragraph 28, and the medium price of Rupees 161 per 100 maunds fixed for the Salt of 1781-82 does not appear to us 1n any respect unreasonable. 67. We recommend it to your consideration whether the export of Salt might not be en- couraged and increased to those countries lying to the northward of Behar, where Rock Salt, brought from a great distance, principally sup- plies the consumption. If the trade to that part of Hindostan could be promoted in the article of Salt, even by alowine a considerable drawback of the duty at the Patna Custom House, important advantages must unavoidably result to the Company’s interest. 68. We understand likewise that a very beneficial trade in this article might be prose- cuted within the Kingdom of Assam, for which returns might be made in gold dust and other articles. We wish as much as possible to open this channel. If the export trade of Salt from our own provinces eould be increased, we cCon-« ceive that it would not be difficult, in a flat sea coast of such extent as that which lies between Balasore and Chittagong, to increase the manufacture so as fully to keep pace with the exportation. Cuslome. 69, The reductions you have made in the Customs so far as they go appear to us com- mendable, but they fall short of our orders of«' 4 4() MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS the 11th of April last, respecting the retrench- ments in this Department, by which you will perceive that the Board of Customs was to be entirely abolished, the allowances to the Col- lectors reduced to them amount in 1776; and the whole charge of collecting the Government Customs to be defrayed from the sum of 7% lacs of Sicca Rupees for the charges of the Revenue Department, 70. We, therefore, refer you to our former orders on this subject, and positively direct that they be adhered to without the least de- viation, : Committee of Grain. 71. The establishment of the Committee of Grain we considered among the other temporary appointments which were to cease when the objects were obtained ; and we accordingly directed that every such establishment made in consequence of the war, or otherwise, should be entirely reduced; but as you seem convinced that good consequences may result from a par- tial continuance of this Committee, we yield in this instance to your reasoning on the subject, and acquiesce in your Resolution thereon, but we expect that the expense be regulated by the strictest econoiny, Poolbundy. 72. Respecting the charges of Poolbundy, o1 repairing the embankments of the rivers, which you mention in the 30th paragraph of the same letter to have particularly recommended to the Committee’s revision; we hope some reduction may be made in this article, but creat care must be taken, lest, by an ill-judged parsimony, these embankments may be so much neglected as to endanger the cultivation of the lands; and if the Zemindars are allowed to make the re- pairs themselves as you propose, and which may be highly proper, the Committee must be very attentive that they punctually perform that duty. Civil Establishments. FQ é 3. We approve of the reduction you have ordered to take place in the article of PersianIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, AL Masters; but as you do not yet appear to have come to any final determination respecting the further retrenchments to be made in the Civil Establishments, we can only for the present repeat and enforce our former orders on thig head—that the whole of the Civil charges shall not exceed the sum prescribed in our before- mentioned letter, and the same with respect to the Marine charges. Pensions. 74. We cannot approve of the pensions which, by the 40th paragraph of your letter, you have resolved to grant to the servants removed from, or not in possession of, offices. Such allowances could only have been made with the view of keeping our unemployed ser- vants in India, in a degree of affluence, on many occasions greater than they would do even when employed. 75, Our final determination is, that a senior merchant, whose fortune is not equal to (£10,000) ten thousand pounds, shall receive from us as much, with the interest of his own money, as shall yield him an annuity of (£400) four hundred pounds per annum, A junior merchant, whose fortune is not equal to (£7,500) seven thousand five hundred pounds, shall re- ceive from us what, with the interest of his own money, will yield him an annuity of (£300) three hundred pounds per annum. A faetor or writer, whose fortune is not equal to (£6,000) six thousand pounds, shall receive from us as much as, With the interest of his own fortune, shall amount to an annuity of (£200) two hundred pounds, 76. We are sensible that these annuities will bear a small proportion to the incomes, which many of our servants, who will now be out of employ, have formerly enjoyed ; but the inconvenience of that circumstanee is greatly removed by their not being obliged to reside in Todia till situations occur in which they can be employed. 77. We, therefore, authorize you to signify to our servants oat of employment that they have our permission with their first conveni- ence to return to Great Britain, where theyMEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS the above annuities, according to shall enjoy ranks, till the time that they their respective are again put into employment; and let them always recollect, it 1s not froma spirit of in- juring them, but from the necessity of our own affairs, anda desire to pay the debts, and restore the credit of the Company, that we are obliged to have recourse to those measures. 78. Wenow advert to the steps you have taken relative to our Military Establishments, as stated from the 41st to the 55th paragraphs, inclusive of your letter of the 31st of January, to which we have had occasion to advert 10 other particulars. 79. With regard to the measures you have taken, or may still take, for the reduction of those articles of Military expense which you properly style the extraordinaries of the Army, we leave that, as well as many other subjects of detail we have mentioned, to your completion before we can deliver our final opinion. We direct, however, that upon no account they ex- ceed the limits we have prescribed in our letter of the 11th of April last; on the contrary, we confidently trust that your exertions, acting in concert with the Military Board we have appointed for your aid, will tend to a very con- siderable reduction within that standard. 80. In our letter of the llth April, wi intimated to you our determination to take an early opportunity of directing what we con- ceived to he an adequate Military Establish- mentin time of peace. We have accordinely done so; and after collecting the best informa- tion we could find, as well upon general as local knowledge of the subject, we ‘have pre- pared and herewith transmit our scheme of a Military Peace Establishment, and we enjoin you to carry it precisely into execution on We conceive it to be of the utmost importance to the success of our Military opera- tions in India; that the corps which ort pose the armies at Bengal, Madras, and Bombay should be so formed as to enable them to bike the field on the shortest notice, andto act with effect whenever they shall happen'to be unitedIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 43 upon service, We have, therefore, resolved to arrange the whole Military Establishments according to one uniform system, and to reduce the corps of every denomination at each of the Presidencies to the same strength in point of Officers, | Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, 82. It is, therefore, our express orders that the following plan shall be immediately adopt- ed for the Military Establishments at Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, and that no de- viation from the proportions settled by this plan shall henceforth take place, without our particular orders for that purpose :— European Troops. That one Regiment of Luropean Cavalry shall consist of— 1 Colonel and Captain, 1 Lieutenant-Colouel and Captain, 1 Major and Captain, 3 Captains, 6 Lieutenants, 6 Cornets, 6 Quarter Masters, 1 Chaplain, | Adjutant, ] Surgeon, 2 Mates, 24 Serjeants, 24 Corporals, 6 Trumpeters, 6 Hautbois, 324 Private men, and that an allowance shall be made for six Rough Riders, exclusive of the pay attached to their station as Corporals in the corps. That one Company of Luropean Artillery shall consist of— 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, @ Lieutenant Fireworkers, 4. Serjeants, 4 Corporals, 8 Gunners, 56 Matrosses, 2 Drums and Fifers, and 2 Puckallies or watermen to be allowed for the use of the Company,— 4.4, MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS That 5 Companies of the same strength shall constitute a Battalion of Artillery, with the fol- lowing proportion of Field and Staff Officers :— 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, | Major, 1 Adjutant, | Quarter Master, 1 Surgeon, 1 Mate, and that an- extra allowance be made for 1 Serjeant Major, 1 Quarter Master Serjeant, | Drill Serjeant, 1 Drill Corporal, | Drum Major, and 1 Fife Major, exclusive of the pay attached to their respective ranks as Serjeants, Corporals, Drums, and Fifes in the Regiment. That the strength of one Grenadier or one Battalion Company of Luropean Infantry shall consist of— } Captain, 2 Subalterns, 3 Serjeants, 4 Corporals, 29 Drums and Fifes, 68 Privates, and 2 Puckallies or watermen to be allow- ed for the use of the Company. That [wo Companies of Grenadiers and $i ) Battalion Companies of the same strength shal] constitute 1 Battalion of European Infantry with the following proportion of Field and Staff Officers :— Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, Chaplain, — fel feed — — Adjutant, 1 Quarter Master, 1 Surgeon, 1 Mate and that an extra allowance be made for ] Serjeant Maj re J (Quarter Master Serjeant, l Drill Serjeant, 1 Drill Corporal, 1 Drum Major, and 1 Fife Major, exclusive of the pay attached to their respective ranks as Serjeants, Corporals, , | 4" . Drums, and Fifes of the Regiment,[IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 15 Native Troops. That the strength of one Troop of Native Cavalry shall consist of— 1 Subaltern Un =? Juropeans, 1 Serjeant J 1 Subadar, o Jemadars, ! Havildars, + Naiks, J ‘Trumpeter ) Farrier, 68 Privates, and 3 ) 1]; 5 ] Puckallie or waterman to he allowed for the use of the'troop. That sez troops of the same streneth shall constitute OLE Regiment of Cavalry, with the following Commandant and Staff :— Captain Commandant Adjutant | te ] (Juarter | Laster 4uropeans, | Surgeon’s Assistant Bla lx Doct le The Senior Regiment of Native Cavalry to be commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel, the next in seniority by a Major, and the other Regiments by Captains Commandant, and that an extra allowance be made for 1 Serjeant Major, 1 Quarter Master Serjeant, 1 Drill Havildar, l Drill Naik, ] Head Farrier, l Head Trumpeter, and 6 Linemen, exclusive of the pay attached to their respective ranks as Serjeants, Havildars, Naiks, Farriers, Trum- peters, and Privates in the Regiment. That the streneth of one Company of Native Infantry shall consist of— Subaltern ’ eae l Kuropeans, | Serjeant 5 | Subadar, 1 Jemadar, 4 Havildars, t Naiks, 1 Drun, | Fife, 68 Privates, and | Puckallie or waterman be allowed for for the use of the Company. That two Companies of Gr nadiers and 81x Battalion Companies of the same strength shallhe atl es 7 ea a 4.6 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS constitute one Battalion of Native Infantry, with the following Commandant and Stafl Co Officers :— Captain Adjutant Europeans, Sureeon’s Assistant J Black Doctor, and that an extra allowance be made to 1 Ser- jeant Major, 1 Quarter Master Serjeant, 1 Drill Havildar, 1 Drill Naik, 1 Drum and Fife Major, exclusive of the pay attached to their respective ranks as Serjeants, Havildars, Naiks, Drums, and Fifes i | —— P That one Company ol Lasears for the servic of the Artillery shall consist of— 1 Serang, 2 First Tindals 2 Second Tindals, 56 Privates, and Puckallie or waterman to be allows for the use ol the Company 83. Itis our express orders that all Es- tablishments respecting Native Artillery, o1 Golandauze, shall cease, and that the Officers and men of those corps shall be incorporated into the Sepoy Battalions, or into the Lascars attached to the Artillery. Itis likewise ow express orders that none of the Natives, from the interior country ol Hindostan, shall ‘ , . henceforth be taucht the exercise of Artillery and that none shall be enlisted for the corns of | te. Artillery Lasears, but such as are actually sea- men or boatmen, settled within the limits of the different Presidencies Peace Establishment. or BENGAL. 3 Battalions of Kuropean \rtillery. 6 Battalions of Kuropean Infantry 2 ‘Tro ps of Native Cavalry. HO Battalions ol Native Infan 30 Compani s of Lasears try. And a corps of Engineers consisting of— 1 Lieutenant-Colone}. Major Captains Lieutenants. O KnsionGeneral Hospital. THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 17 The Battalions of Native Infantry are to be formed into 6 Brigades, each Brigade to con« sist of 6 Battalions of Sepoys, with ] Lieute. nant-Colonel and 1] Major attached as the necessary field Officers for conducting the Military duties and discipline of the Brigade. When the Battalions of European and Native Infantry are commanded to take the field for service, they are to be e juipped with two field pieces each, 2 Tindals and 28 Lascars are also to be tad for working the Artillery, and 1 European Non-Commissioned Officer and 8 Privates for pointine the guns and taking care of the ammunition and stores. Whenever a Brigade is ordered to tached onservice, the Grenadiers of the Battalions composing” y oO the Brigade are to be formed into two Battalions for covering the flanks of the Brigade, and .to have two Batta- lion funs attache to each, with a proper proportion of uropean yee and Artillery Lascars. On this prit \cIp . exclusive of the Field Train, 16 Field os } Company of Huropean Artillery, and 4 Companies of Lasears wil] complete t the Brigade for immediate service. Sta /} . ( 1 Adjutant General as Lieu- tenant-Colonel. i Quarter Master General pi Oe ae va utenant-Colonel. General Stafl. 4 | Deputy Adjutant General as Major. | 1 Deputy Quarter Master \ Ge Her al as Maj Te ( 6 Lieutenant-Colonelsattach- ed to the Brieade. | 6 Majors attached to the te i an | oTieade, Brigade Stail. 6 Brigade Majors as Cap- 6 Juarter Masters of srig rade as M: ajors. | ort eee Fort Garrison Staff, Ll Fort mers William. f t — Naw Qaras . / Surgeons. 15 Assistants.dal Fiala th al MEMORANDUM ON THE RE( ORD V7 oh. : 7 a iT @ © 9 Battalions ol! Artillery, | Battalions of European Intantry, 1 Regiment of European Cavalry 5 Re orlmMe nts of Native Cavalry, 86 Battalions of Native Infantry, OV Companies of Lascears, And a Corps of Eneineers consisting 1 Lieutenant-Colonel 1 Major. se ptains, oe ut a eutenants iD S nsigns. The Battalion of Native Infantry are t ] formed into 6 Bnicad S. each Briova le to e@ ol ’ 6 Battalions of Sepoys, with | Lieut Colonel and l Major attached as the neces Field Officers for conducting the Military di and discipline of the Bneade When tbe Battalions of European and tive infantry or the Revim nts of Cavalry commanded to take the Field for service, ire to be eq ul} pped with two Field Pieces e: 2 Tindals a 98 Lasears are also to be tached for working the Artillery ; + European Non-Commissioned Officer a Privates for pointing the guns and t: eare of the ammunition and stores. Whenever a Brivade is ordered to be d ed on service, the Grenadiers of the Batta composing the Brigade, are to be formed j Battalions for covering the. flanks of the cade and to have two Battalion Gun 11 to each, with 1 proper proportion oj Artill ry and MN 14] ry Las On principle, exclusive of the Field Train, 16 Pieces, 1 ce of European Arti and 4 Companies of Lascars will comp the Brigade for immediate service nant te oe el. General Staff s Maj ‘Tt. Pe ] Ad ant General. as | 3 | \ Ge ne ral as M: jor Deputy (luarte) Ma Pccotes 0 be NISIST nant- sary they Master GeneraIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 6 Lieutenant-Colonels at- tached to the Brigades. 6 Majors attached to the irom Brigade Staff 4 5 Brigade Majors as tpi | 6 Quarter Masters of Bri- | gade as Lieutenants. Cachan: Stall § 1 Fort Major. Tc IY Wm je T y's U1 Fort Adjutant, 6 Surgeons, Hospital Staff Y 5> Mates. B omba U | Battalion of Artillery, 2 Battalions of European Infantry, 12 Battalions of Native Infantry, LO Companies of Lascars, And a as of Engineers consisting of— | Lieutenant-Colonel. L Mayor. 2 Captains. i Lieutenants i Ensiens. The Battalions of Native Infantry are to be formed into two Brigades, each Brigade to ‘onsist of 6 Battalions of sepoys, with ] Lieu- tenant-Colonel, and 1 Major attached as the necessary Field Officers for conducting the Mili- > tary duties and discipline of the Brigade. When the Battalions of European and Na- e Infantry are commanded to take the Field for service, they are to be equipped with two Field Pieces each, 2 Tindals and 28 Lasears are also to be attached for working the Artillery, und Kurepean Non-Commissioned Othicer and 8 Privates for pointing the Guns and taking care of the ammunition and stores. Whenever a Brigade is oe to be detached on service, the Grenadiers of the Battalions composing the Brigade are to = formed into two Battalions for covering the flanks of the Brigade, and to have two Battalion Guns attached to each, with a proper proportion of European \rtillery and APRS Lasears. On this prinei- ple, exclusive of the Field Train, 16 Field Pieces, | Company of European Artillery, and 4 Com- panies of Lasears will complete the Brigade for immediate serviceHe General Stat Brigade Staff Garrison Stafl ~y c t c @~ | o MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORD Deputy Adjutant General as Mayor. Deputy Quarter Master Gene ral as Major. Lieutenant -Colonels th 7 Brierade. \jOrs attached Lieutenant. Fort Major. Fort Adjutant. Surgeons. & Tos f Staff . : Hospit Ul Stall (14 Assistants. = attached 4 = UU tp rigade Major as Captain, rigade Quarter Maste1 { \ Se. Whenever I becomes necessary to i1n- erease the Army at any of the Presidencie: beyond what Is settled for the Peace Establish- ment, no alteration must take place in portion of Oth CLS. corps of the &e., settled for the se ! Presideney,—on such ( complete Companies are to be adde Artillery and Artillery Lascars, comp! ments to the Cavalry, and complete Battalions to the Kuropean and Native Infantry. Drauchts are to be made from the old corps, as a tion for the additional levies in propo! In Consequence } so that the rood a i se levies, and the ot } 1 . . ; cr they res} ectlve denciencie these Drauehts by re vwryy LULL SO same proportion tor one Company of Artillery and Artillery Lascars, and (DI One L Regiment of Cavalry and one Battalion of European or Native Infantry, shall invariably remain the ime in the o] an the Lew Orps 84. Upon this subject, it will be observe that the Military Establishment we have directed for the other Settlements make no provision f: an Establishm« Ht our letter of t to you our Presidency of manner as it and to place it u further direct ment may be shall be a deta ali respects fo} at Fort Marlborough ‘wate +L, 4 Lit In Iu «i LTIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, ot $5. Every circumstance indicates the pro- priety of this arrangement, and our attention has been in a peculiar manner called to it by an application of the 10th August 1784, made to us by our Officers on the Bencoolen Estab- lishment, the erounds of which appear to be perfectly Warranted, and it does not occur to as that any such radical remedy can be applied to their complaints as by the arrange- ment we have now suggested. We transmit to youd COpy ol their representation. 86. We have been advised that one Com- pany of Artillery, two Companies of European Infantry, and four Companies of Native In- fantry would be a proper Establishment to be stationed at Fort Marlborough ; and if you are of opinion that the Army we have directed to be kept up under your Establishment will not admit of so large a Detachment from it, con- sistently with the safety of our Provinces, we authorize you to make an addition to the Bengal Establishment, as above direct dh, tO the extent of what may be necessary tor the Fort Marlborough De a -hment,. 87. In reducing your Army to the Hs- tablishment now preseribed by us, We are aware that there must be a considerable number of Supernumerary Officers of different ranks. We lament the loss of the service of so many able and gallant Officers, and shall take the earliest opportunity which offers of restoring them to it. In the mean time, we direct that all Euro- pean Officers who may fall under the reduction be allowed the half-pay of their respective ranks, and be permitted to return home to their native country, where they shall enjoy that allowance till the opportunities offer of restoring them to full-pay on the Establish- ment. 38. With regard to Native Officers, we think it improper to permit them to be diss banded from our service upon such terms as may leave them any temptation to betake themselves to any other service, possessed, as they are, of Military skill and discipline ac- quired in our Army. We think a temporary expense, though considerable, well bestowed toagree dame A ia dE ear WEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS cuch an evil. We, therefore, direct you to full-pay, and to take the to their prevent retain them upon liest opportunity of restoring them Perhaps some of these led for by former situations. Native Officers may wish to be provi an allotment of waste lands at Boglepore terms as the invalided O fficers tionabl upon the same if so we think it would bea very unexcep syowest ib mode of providing for them, and we sugg for your consideration. Military Hospita f. 89. Conceiving the care of our sick 01 wounded soldiers to be an object dictated as well by sound policy as by humanity, we have n examining bestowed particular attention that subject, aud the investigation has pointed out to us tne propriety of transmitting to you precise regulations for the conduct of our Hospitals. These Regulations have in view t remove every chance of the troops suttering from a want of proper attendance, comfortabl accommodations, good medicines, diet, hospital necessaries, “C., and LO estal lish such a control over the several Departments of the Hospital a will limit the annual expenses to what are merely necessary, and ascertain the charges with accuracy. ‘They have likewise in contemplation to abolish the absurd practice of allowing Surgeons to benefit in proportion to the numbe) of sick under their care, or to derive any ad- vantage in consequence of their remaining a leneth of time 1n the Hospitals, which, unde such a system, must be too often the case to the prejudice of the service, and to the great diserace of humanity. But at the same time that these Regulations are particularly directed acainst any degree of abuse, they hang out encouragement to men of abilities and characte to prosecute the Medical line 1n India, by establishing reasonable prospects to Si ait ate and a regular progression of rank from the highest to the lowest stations in the Company’s service. mr ie > 90. These Regulations are eontained in two papers which accompany this—one entitled é ¥ é ns ee : ol . “ Reeulations respecting Military Hospitals in India ; the other, entitled Forms and RegulationsIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, for the Apothecary in charge of the Medicine Stores at the different Presidencies in India.” 91. Our Military istablishments, even upon, the scale to whicl 1 they are reduced, joined to the proper supply of our Hospitals, will require avery considerable number of Surgeons and Assistants, But, from tl 1e latest returns we have seen, we take it for granted you have at your Settlement a sufficient number’ for all the purposes we have directed, and likewise as many more as may afford a supply to our other Set- tlements, if any shall be required by any of that you have appointed a great number of Assistant Surgeons at Bengal them. We observe since the year 1781, without our permission, This isa practice which we prohibit in future, 92. Asin the present state of our affairs we cannot admit of any unnecessary expense, we have come toa resolution, and direct that no more Surgeons or Assistant Surgeons than those necessary for our several Hospitals and Establishments shall draw pay or allowances from the Company. The supers numeraries must depend on their private prac» tice till vacancies fall, ag it was not our inten- tion in permitting Surgeons of any description to proceed to India to practise in their profes- sion, that they should immediately on their arrival receive pay, unless appointed to some Station in consequence of vacancies. Ju. From this restriction, however, it is our intention to exempt such as have been in actual service with the troops or in detachments during the war, and we consent to their draw. ing their pay and half-batta while unemployed, 94. When, in our letter of the 16th March 1784, we disapproved of the appointments you had recently made of twenty-four Assistant Surgeons, and nominated others in their room, we were led to imagine that your Establishment were really so many deficient ; as, therefore, the persons so nominated by us do not stand pre- cisely in the same predicament with those whom we merely permitted to proceed to India to practise in the way of their profession, and to succeed only upon actual vacancies, and may conceive themselves entitled to some compen- sation In consequence of the above orders, Wea) et LORI PO $B ECR Ys OE 54 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS direct that you erant them a moderate allow- ance, until they shall succeed the reduced Establishment. to vacancies upon \ We have already, 1m our letter of the 10th of December 1784 directed you to give Yo. every assistance t Lieutenant-General Sloper, suppress the excessive use ¢ i in his endeavours to Se . 12 1 / spirituous liquors among the soldiery, and the profits, which there 1s too much reason to be- cy 1 .e Commanding lieve, have result: d from 16 t Stations Officers at different the cituation of the Can- 96. We think that th . ‘ ’ tonments affords you consider 1ple " the accomplishment of this point, W be attended with little difhieulty pulations were made with the Contractor 1 the supply of this article respecting the quan- titv to be delivered by him, and all othe a Sat 7 os is persons were prohibited from vending any splrl- tuous liquors within the Cantonments. 97. Weare well aware thai no Regulation of this sort can be ¢ irried into efiect W hile the " 1 4 ry? i: Commanding Officer, who should exercise the con- J: . bs . ] trol in this respect, 1s nermitted to derive a pecu- niary advantage from promoting the consump- a ‘ 7 4} z j . | 7 } tion, and at the same n gael ing the quality of this destructive articie. We are inciimed however, to hope that this practic na i n i means been veneral, and we direct that in ituture proper measures be take 4. the utmost mgoul that part of the eighth Section of the Articles of War by which su profits are expressly forbidde 9S. [t LS impossible f Yr Te L( ‘ ni ) further ‘nto the detail of this subject, which must bi left to your zeal and local knowledge ; but we think it necessary acain to direct yout earl attention to it, as a point which we feel to b of the highest importance both to the health and discipline of our Army. Ooo ee 5 Ju. It has been sugcested to us +] at altera- iC . Fi io} a a ee tions might be made in the present ciailicedl clothing the European soldiers, it hich would 14] eonduce much to their convenience and healt!IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, ~ dd without being productive of any increased ex- } ! ense to the Company, We direct you, there- ore, to take this subject under your considera- tion, and, having obtained such information as shall be necessary, to transmit us your senti- ments thereon. 100. Another great object of Military arrangement which remains to be finally settled, is the prevention of those jealousies and dis- putes which have arisen between His Majesty’s troops serving in India, and our servants both in the Civil and Military lines, This matter is now under our serious consideration. subject of much delicac It is a y inthe different points which are involved in it, but we entertain the 4 strongest hopes of being able to bring it to such a conclusion as may be satisfactory to all who are concerned in it, and beneficial to the national interests. 4 Branches of the Home Depart- ment,—In the old Public Department, the Proceedings and Home correspon- dence were recorded under one head; but in later years it became necessary to separate the records under eleven dif- ferent heads or branches, namely, Public, Commercial, Separate Revenue, Law, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, Revenue. Legislative, Marine, Education, and Electric Telegrapl 1. For the nience of reference, the dates of COnvVe- the formation of the different Departments are here exhibited : Public Separate Revenue Law Legislative Dept Ecclesiastica! Judicial Revenue from Sept. A ug. Feb. Dec. Nov. Dec. — —_ md — —d CO OO CC — = ws — or SoM CO i Ot — =wi OO ad ale MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS Electric Telegraph.—Sanc- tion by ne on of Directors to the Electric Telegraph Line from Caleutta to Agra, Bom- bay, &e., in Despatch dated 20 th Oct tober 1 RAY " | | In een vee | \ { Ndueation. — Despatch 4 | J the Re ‘ord oO} these ie ; ments date res- rar tively fr O mM Courtof Directors, dated int January 1857. 19th July 1854. Post Office. —, Ap] yoint oe of Director General, Aucust 1804 10. Formation of the Financial De- partment, 1843.—The distinct office of Financial Secretary was constituted under the following Resolution, passed on the 4th January 1843 :— The Governor General being sirous ol 1 7 ; . ) re-modelline the system of administering the linances of Indi 1. so as to brine them mor immediately within the active control of th Government, deeming it fit, moreover, that ‘the supervision of the expenditu of the State in every branch of the Publie Service shall be concentrated in one Ofnheer whose attention +) shall be solely directed to operations of Finance the Hon’ble the President in Council, in con- eurrence with the Right Hon’ble the Governor General, 1S pi ased to resolve on the following modifications and changes in the Offic connected with Finance under the Government 9 «¢ ITI, i. ] < ] hd [he rinancial Seeretars sp LID TO the Government of India shall be a distinct office unencumbered with the details of any othe Department of the State com ’ ine Financial Secrey ivy me) the (5 Vern- ment of India shall be charged with the sole oO, and the entire conduct of the oper: ations o 1A ty ‘ Oo ral lye : the Finance of India, comprehending therein Q } ve . 4 4 ’ . » D preparation Ul mSstimates, the Provision Ot eee ho ss , ways and means, the terms and conditiuns « l, , iOals, temporary and permanent the sn LDpCrv! ’ I sion and arrange i i gel | iD arrangement of the results of th A > ‘ } 7 . Accounts of the Presidencies of Beneal JIC aIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. HT Madras, Bombay, and Agra, and the manage- ment of the details of the Financial operations of Bengal. 1. “With this view, the Hon’ble the President in Council is pleased to direct that the whole of .the Financial Returns hitherto made to the Accountant General at the Presi- dency of Fort William shall hereafter be submitted to the Financial Secretary to the Government of India; and the Authorities of gal, Madras, Bombay, and Agra will be Ben requested to instruct the Officers of Account of their respective Presidencies to forward their Accounts and Returns direct to the Financial Secretary to the Government of india in lieu of to the Accountant General, as heretofore. >. “ His Honor in Council further deter- mines that the Financial Estimates and Re- turns for the Government of India and the Home Authorities, heretofore compiled in the Office of the Accountant General at Fort William, shall for the future be prepared by the Financial Secretary to the Government of India; and that, in pursuance of this Resolu- tion, the Financial Records and that portion of the Establishment of the Accountant Gene- ral’s Office which has hitherto been employed upon the Financial Returns shall be imme- diately transferred to the Office of the Finan- cial Secretary to the Government of India. 6. The Financial Secretary will take an early opportunity of reporting on the fitness of the Establishment so made over to him, in addition to that of the present Financial Secretary’s Office, fur the performance of the duties henceforth to be required of him. 7. “Itis the intention of the present ar- rangement that every operation connected with the expenditure of the public money shall eome under the review of the Government. of India through the medium of the Financial Secretary. It is, therefore, preseribed and diuistedh ihe’ every order sanctioning LEstab- lishments of any kind, or entailing expendi-ag alt SER Sattler Se 58 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS ture and requiring a present or prospective issue of money, shall be transferred from the Department in which the measure is proposed to be issued through the Financial Secretary, and the Audit Officers should require the sanc- tion of an order of that Department before passing any Bill or charge, The Deputy Go- vernor of Bengal willin like manner be pleased to issue orders that the expenditure of every branch of the Public Service in Bengal shall | pass through the Department of the Financia Secretary.’ 11. Four Departments of the Go- t vernment of India, 1843.—The fol- lowing Extract from a Despatch to the Hon’ble the Court of Directors, No. 92, dated 5th May 1843, shows the formation of four Departments out ol the Secretariat Establishments of the Government of India :— “ We have the honor to enclose a copy ' [ our Resolution, framed in communication with the Richt Hon’ble the Governor General, CxX- planatory of the arrangements made for th conduct of public business in the several Depart- ments of the Governments of India and Benegal. oS ” cc mp i eis id ] 4 ' As ‘The object oi these arrangements, which we believe to be in accordance with the inten- tions of the Imperial Legislature, and well cal- culated to facilitate and improve the general administration is, as far as possible, to relieve the Government of India of all administrative details, so as to enable it to direct its attention to important questions of legislation, of policy, and of general principles of Government, leay- ing the details to be exclusively conducted by the Local Governments. a. 1? “Pie principle of the new arrancements consists in the separation of the Offices of thi Supreme and Subordinate Gov the same Officers having hitherto been, at the sam time, Secretaries both to the Gove} nmeé nts India and Bengal.IY THE HOMP DEPARTMENT. 5 4, é¢ v fhe Secretariat Establishments of the Government of India have been formed into ‘ ee tour Departments, viz :—~ c¢ ene c:. ° Military Department, which remains on its (t).—The Office of the Secretary In the he! former footing. © cs / i ° » (11).—A Secretary in the Foreign Depart- ment, charged with the < pondence belonging to the ex conduct of all corres. o ternal and internal diplomatic relations of Government. f - 4 —_ aaah sinewe mn. 6s a : i ment, who will carry on all legislative business and conduct the all subjects beloz 41 ee ry . e . : 4 ~ WLEIT dom¢ SvLIG administration, 4 ’ »\ ‘ . i Ss . t \ r\ }« £2. secre La ry in { he J + r the Resolution of 4th January last.”? (111).—-A Secretary in the Home Depart- s correspondence of the Govern- [ India with the Local Governments on wine to the Departments of ‘inancial De- partment, to conduct the duties described in 19. Baematian af 4s @ er is, Lormation of the Bengal Office, *OAD yyy 1649.— Lhe following is an Extract from a Resolution (Home Depart- ), dated 29th April 1843, separa- ting the Offices of the Governments of India and Bengal; and prescribing anew system of business and corres- ponding arrangements to take effect from the Ist of May 1843 :— é¢ FIV ri] 41 ‘ bi) he Hon’ble ie President in Council, in communication with the Right Hon’ble the Governor General, has taken into consideration the existing arrangements for the conduct of public business in the several Departments of the Government of India and of the Govern- eats . f eu ment of Bengal. 2. “ It has appeared to His Honor in Coun- cil desirable as a means of facilitating and im- proving the general administration, and as a system perfectly in accordance with the inten- tions of the Imperial Legislature, that the Supreme Government of India, separating itself as far as possible from all administrative details, should confine its attention to the consideration of umportant questions of legislation, of policy, und of veneral principles of Government,aaa wise on general solve = 3. “© Tt is proper it by tem should ho lon Dey J re mrtmenets . once Secretary to the Supreme ordinate Government. 4. * Under th cessary to this view the two Governments, r 4} ° ¥ hshments of the 1 i] { 3 hepcetortha ot ilitary Dep Bt nt footil i. ee alia ei cd ~+ t For the othe é¢ f+ A Wa \il) —ir wf : ‘ har. 1 y kClLiL, alvcu MV gpl mati relatlh ‘ ] - ities to be solel c¢ / 4 q (Ii) —A De t 1} et nent Wao Will Ol ail i ] cl 2% j of their do! tis 7 on all su! ( i0n Of Ulvu al \ 1} . Ih ai Si LS ff 43 of the revenue 1 Reve C : vevenug, u Ol 2 aoe and the gquesi A a J . CiV~lly U O Ul mai as Oli i v5 } } ivi Wi i } } ’ pu: 1c Vv won re tio! . ind ¢ ! i NHS Corre ] } ters involving —i ewan - KY oTTTH FT IN ALE; i1( a s aoa at = se mS > > < » and Z = = sy fide i ot vom Aneiicn ? remy. da 14 } or increase of charge to the State; and except } 148 Fis bed na wéutene At c the usual Weekly Diaries or A bstrac bs = OF Pro. ’ + ww. ANL2 2 : , . Te epee es a -COaIN 2S, i pis is, 10 fact, the System at present Ses i s : = a ete Be } Sete neh Lee C 1) in use as regards the Pre: Lkuencies OF Yort a rw ty > } Bt. (seorve and Bombay =) v* a ee A MM AAWAL Hwee <4 oat lee eel oe a (Iv).—A Secretary in the Financia] De arte ment, to conduct the duties des ribed ir 4th January last. It will not, His Honor; Council thinks, be advisable to add to this - u pa Ab } 4° 1 ee es iT ae ‘ : \ thy — 4 . = ) DIS essential adutbie as an Offic [ of Pinance, nied facet v for ] 40d 1t ls only necessary for him to be acquaint- } } } 1} i } 4 , . . . aS 1n this ELVESOLU nD iiotted the G deta iS to +] ] ur . a i hh . brane the Home Hecl! ry, tO WHOM Dy their nature oe 1 } j © Py ¥ Lot rit aAlAT ’ uC nos P POCIIV Vel ne, cf / . rryy o at 1 (V).— Lhe Se tar LO the- Government f vT } . iy T : Ty Tv; e 7 f In in tbe Foreign, Home, and Financial ; TT 7 + : i] 1, huts , ‘ ley lar C r As ‘ { ‘ l . Te \} ‘ iV ) Salali o Ua ™ KO va 1 iVU S ess. Psa nually. ‘ rm nc es i i : \ i i : 5 Ul J UDOT a Mi EJ DULY md 4 4] Ly } re) etal ) l wovernment LETS ] ne bsurn : ] ] | and ¥ J isiative, (rr il, vudalk i and ihevenue ¥ - c | 7 ¥ } i Dartvment are avbolsned ¢ ee Pres ie oe 2 eeslt (ha ae ’ j a bi tl i i iil ajje a 4 ] . 7 ‘ ij inted In the foreign | lent, Who will ; 1] 7 ] oT To Peni . 17 | : wed a | y OL Hupees 12,000 annua v, Z r ’ oo; - 5 , ‘a '- \ s ss L j ; (VI } om § ‘Wwovernment ot Denali Will, ; . ' j ‘ ; >) 7 1 1 toe DM 1G] above si ited conauct all the : c . T uis O© 10S administration in the Depart. j 1 { ] e% ' = oe ¢ ; ? in LuUS il VUIOTC vied vv UU lal, mevenue, 1 . ss rr) | 1 1d (x Tai. Lpnesi 1h if cie all bu iness ] okt —— baw 7 1 } ] onnect W1 the administration of Civil and am | ' } j ? inal Justic +, and the management of Police ry NA 1 ' ‘ . : : 1 Uivul, Medical, and Ecclesiastical administratic n, | ° y . mS 2 ie collection of Revenue in all its branches o i di \bkaree, the Post Office, the Vepartment of } ~ Ly] y -¥ aD oT, Ow + rnme mdaucation, anda the internal and. external62 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS “ (rx).—Respecting Education, the Estab- lishments within the two Divisions of the Pres- dency which are now carried on under the direction of the Supreme Government, will henceforth be superintended by the Govern- ments of Bengal and Agra respectively ; the Council of Education being pi in direct communication with the Government of Bengal, ining on its presen 5} er A i “9 Ar. Tr’. TY. os (x) In ré yard to the WLBTINE, His Honor y in Council observes that, to place it under the di Supreme Government, 1t would fall 1 veniently to the Departinent of the Home itcan hardly beso | laced, 1n i Secretary. But lay ata 12 vit! tha NPN lec alra: ivd a) red consistence W1t0 Ut principies aireacy qgageciared,. Ee aa \ cee ieee aka — tha For 11 the Benegal Marine be taken into thé : . a a * ai -~ i management of the General Government ol India, so also for like reasons should the Bombay Marine. 3ut the Marine Department, requir ing in an especial manner promptitude in its 1 .< management, and bel auite local in its relations, ought always to be controlled at Calcutta as well as at Bombay by an authority on the spot. It has never been found pr tieable to bring the Marins Department of B mbay under the manage 4 cr } } i. 2 ge 4 i “. ment of the authorities at Calcutta, or to . Cn nf { remove LU from 1 LO mm ave CU trol OF tne 1 4 } i | j | r rFOVCI i OL L ricosiu lCy bO thi rt OF A ST c { ; | \¥} .} } ; 1g | 1e Vi rine * ] . ek 4 i Shee } pen i ) ] oO 1 be Manavea DY tne wy | hat ’ ' > bi ee ’ ee ion’ as tToat (FJovern- . =. 3 ‘+. % , 7 > ‘ 7 4 : ,y i "h : j ment Was stationed ll Cal UbLtad, COU! not con- i ' 1! , > V i I ‘ { Li Li} eT | ti bf ‘ Yr) ry ’ . y | > t Yr) ‘+ ry f ic AL NX i I vv ( ‘ 4 4 bit , L) A ui _ ‘ } | L 1 { y } } nia LG S| a iy)? of Loe ing LD i ] j 1. i} ee ; Cc LY resoivead to piace tae i Anis Or: tae IVLOrINe \ ly yictratin ~4 Yar o] 1 : } ¥ wl . Admunistration of Dengal, imternal and exter- no : ae L} P T ] ‘ nal, under the management of the Locai Go- -ornman?s Pikat De - ol eerie e443 vernment or that rres idency, controled Peli ral- > — =o oe we ed > * r + ae 7 « - ie = ly in this, as in al Dupreme (yovernment of India.” CN deca ee ad nr edrx . THE HOME 13 DEPARTMENT. 63 + 3. Public Department Proceedings. —The proceedings in the Public De- partment originally comprised, as already stated, the whole of the records of the Company’s Settlement at Cal- cutta. Most of these, prior to the middle of the last century, were destroyed at the capture of Calcutta by Surajah Dowla, and the existing series only commences at 1752. It should here be remarked that all Proceedings are preserved in duplicate; that is, the original papers are ¢ ypied into volumes and then stowed away in bundles. It will be sufficient to say that, as regards the Public Department Proceedings, the bundles are perfect from 1760 down to the present day. The fol- lowing is a complete List of all the manuscript volumes which have been preserved down to the year 1860, when printing was introduced, The missing volumes are specified for Office uses ; but what is wanting can be generally supphed from the bundles :— PusBtic DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. Vol 1752 ...September to December... 1] Tie. vai eo at te 108 ken ip vet ad Tga0 *. 3, : este Bw0G .;: a ee Seed as al ie 1758 J 1759 ] 1760 J 176] ] 1762 I 1763 2 1764. 1765 ] 766 a 2 1767 2 1768wer A a OR yA: i . DePARTMENT 1769 ] ’ ' ( ) 1799 LSOQ MEMORANDUM Procerpines,— (Continued , Vi Januarv to June bP April and May May to October June to December January to April, July to December. January and February, Mav. June, and ‘Octo- ber to December. January ca Marchand April,and May to July. \ TY } May to VWecember ae ‘ } January LO December January to June and O January to December 2 9 November a \d D cem | er January to June and Oc- tober to December. March to May, and Aug. vol., and October to December. J inuary to May, Septem- ber and October.IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 65 Pustic Department Procrrpincs,—(Continued.) January, February, November and December missing Mar } nm reoruary, to August, and November and December missing, January, February, June and July missing July to December missing January, February, May, July and December missing February and July missing h \ uly, I. and II. Vols., August and November i \ : , pg ou ' May LLY Aug Sept er ind N emb Ma \ mi! ind D nber m i De mber n Ln A) | M N Pa } | I ] la vy, | h, July to D I . Mars {pri ind August \ I i r r M; May July to O ber Dacembe1 Lissing January t Mar May to O berand D ber n in March t » June, und D nl n in March to M September to Decen r missin February, and Aug to D n rl in January Au ml ebri Ap! I mi . i UAry February June and ept mber to December m ig M 4¥ e tembe Nove I and De ber miss M Sing 2 February to August missing *h and June May to August missing 1801 1802 1803 L804 1805 LSO6 1807 1808 L809 1810 1814 LS16 L818 1819 L8?0 1324, 1825 March to Oetober January, April and May, September and October. March May, August to December. to and January to Jane oa March, April and June, August to November. see January, March to June, August to December. ... January, February, April, June and July, Vols. 3 to 6, September, Octo- ber and December. February to April, June, October and December. January, February, and April to October. January tu November January to March, and June to October. February,April to June... January, February, and May to July and De- cember. ... January, April, June and November. April and November ... January, February, and July to November. January, February, June to August. March to July September toDecember,.. January, March and June March to May, and July and Aucust. January to April, June to August and October. January, September to ] Jecem | Cr. ... January to April, Sep- tember to December. Vols. 9 “) Vv J ll Co onOe tte tS ie MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS 66 -as,— (Concluded.) Puprrc DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS,— ( CO”C(UACH) Vols, 1826 January to ¢ Yetober ... 6 November and December m : ~ 1827 a 9 to December aoe i 1828 January, February, and 0 March and Apri missing. May to December. 1829 _,, January to December 6 ESE Cy a a / EOE ees » i I A652 4s. 2 SS k 15o0 = xs ‘ " — 508 ss to10th November 4 Leab* , to December ... ee ee EOGO: ce. si A 3 1837 eee 9 to July see o 1836 «3 = to December 0 LOGe. nx: to March, and @ ApriltoJun July to December. 1840 ... January to December BOL Sess a aoc Ss LESS suc 3 1843... re he 1844. ..> my 1845... ‘ aoe 1846... _ oe LUST uss ms a 1845... . oe ae OGG as = ois L850 aoe a : 0b 7 ae _ a Inve . a ane 1853 a 9 e's v 1654... a eee 1650"... ‘ a ae 1856 es . ae A 1857 ae i. 12 1858 = 3 ee 12 1859 ,eGo" *:.. So 5 14. Separate Revenue Proceedings. —The Revenue Department appears to have been formed in 1790, but the Proceedings for the first three years were not apparently recorded in volumes, but the original papers were alone deposited in bundles. TheseIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Proceedings, as well as all those which follow, have been preserved in dupli- ‘ 4. manuser] SEPARATE REvE (1790 ; here are no Proceedings for these year 4 179] . 1792 1793 1794, January to May mi 1795 July to I ber 1 p 1796 Sant to D m 1797 1798 1799 1800 M - 180] . 1802 1803 1804 1805 . 1806 1807 L808 : 0 1S09 yt I i810 1812 1813 1514, January to June missing ... 18]5 1516 May to Aucust m SING ass 1817 ary to a portion of April and May to December missing ... 1818 Missing 1819 mber y we 1820 U g LOWY wie aie ~y - NUE PROCEEDINGS. cate like those in the Publie Depart- ment. The following is a List of those e pt volumes which have been r July to December 3) ses ees June to December e January to June Fes ae = to Aucust ; July to December i January tO ',. vn “a ” » July to December January to _,, ” » . I) 3) ‘ae »» to Marchand May, September to December, January, February, and May to December. April to June, and Sep- tember to December January to March October Lo December > a January to March and December January to December ”» ere a2 eee ... July to November 15th November, 15th to “7th December 1816. see Ord January to 18th April, and 5th Septem- ber to 26th December, .. 24th April, Vol. TI, eee eee October to December 67 pd Oe co wm CO eS qn58 MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS 68 SpparaTE REVENUE PROCEEDINGS,—(COX%CH tol IL ' ny Ma ovember and Dec mber m1 1821 June to O VCl ane t January to May, ! en ‘ - ose . ¥ January to JViare July January to Di AT ’ ViAaTC April to June October to DeceIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 69 15. Law Department Proceedings.— The Proceedings of the Law Depart- ment are recorded from 1784. The following is a List of the Volumes which have been preserved :— LAw DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS, January to May, and September to December miss ing Missing + ” ” ” >* ” ” >? Mi January to June missing M 2) ~~) ~~) ~ ¥ (te wo of So ~J x “J el i ee ~~) ~~) ~~) —) << a a a © © Co ~~ i —) Ne 1795 L797 1798 1799 L800 1SO] 1802 1803 1804 Volse ... June to August ie A 1 ; January to December or ] e .. January to December .. 9 . January to December ... 1 . l : x fo es I : l . July to December . January to December ... l . January to December ... lL eee eee . January to December ... l . January to December ... 1 1 . January to December 3) 33wv Wig Oe elie etn a a ae 70 MEMORANDUM ON THF RECORI Law DEPARTMENT Proceepines,—(Concluded.) ” 1824 ... we we. Sake 1825 1826 L827 e.. January to December Lone uk. - . i Szyk... m a? PG0U . it: i. oud l TBuk: wis ii bcs . Missing 1832 1853 1854 16. Ecclesiastical Department Pro- 7 snore | } Hap e 1 é | »*) 1) MAarbl- ceedings: Ihe Ecclesiastical D: } art ; } 7 a an : ment appears to have been formed 1n 1815. The following is a List of the Volumes which hay CS DCEL pres reve d — EcchEsIASTICAL DEPARTMENT Pr \ 1815 cae Novem! iL and 1) ( mber | 1816 ... June to De ym ber ., 1 -January to Ma 1817. ... January to December . Pens. ene a a 182() 182] : i }R* = ls ! 1824 | ] ) "> i ~ _ | ~ ‘ ] 33 i IsoU — — — a 1s54 Janu ry tO I embe}] | 1835 ) 8th December 1834 to 1 1600 D mber l Db * ( January 1857 to De- | 1858 a 14239 ) cember 18389, ~ >IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 71 EcciesrasticaL DEPARTMENT Procrepines,—(Concluded.) Vols, — ee ee 1840 to De- 1841... cember 184] } 1842 January to December 1 , » . 1843 » eee 1 1844 ” ee. 1&45 ‘i : 1 1846 a : l 1847 ” g 18 LS 9 2 QA 1849 5 ee c00 i) eee ©or 2 1851 7 Poy atc 1852 =p : ey 1853 : 1 gr 1s 4. »” . I Q > os 1 dv 99 ae A 1856 - 4, 1857 : cat nes from January 1857 to May LS58 oe ad up W cn Put Pro A 1 = 9 i eee eee ese 1860 June to December a’ 17. Judicial Department Proceed- ings.—The following is a List of the Volumes preserved in this Depart-. ment :— JupicrAL Department ProcreDINGs. Vols, ( Criminal. 12nd December 1834 to 5th March 1835 et 13th March to 14th May 1835 ees ees 1 1s3n J llth May to 29th June OVI eee} 1 S45 1 [ Civil os 2nd December 1834 to llth May 1835 iS , 18th May to 29th June L 1835 see 1835 July to December 1836 January to December —~ An Pe OP = ai ke ace 1855 ” a oes 1839 ‘9 aie aes 1840 99 a AN 1841 93> eee ee@MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS 7 < 12 JupICIAL DEPARTMENT Procrerpines,— (Coneluded.) Vols 1842 January to December 1843 " i oe ee 1844 ae oe 1845 oo 184.6 _ < i 1847 ae a’ 1845 re i Co 1850 ” 2 1851 y ~~ - 1S52 = 1853 ; 3 1854 i. { 1855 ” 3 1856 ” eee a qmeentenens 1857 a oA cf 1858 a es = Pr! 1859 en's =i ae 1860 June to De ember = 9 | 18. Revenue Department Proceed- ings.—The following isa List of the Volumes preserved in this Depart- ment :— REVENUE DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. 2nd December 1834 to OL) ‘) yooOr c &f(tvQ ADI Se 1834... « s i | \} : ] v eas ] 29nd December 1§34 to March 1835 are 1 1835 April to December ie 9 1836 January to Decemb yj Ne ae Te i i a, 1837 : 6 1838 = 7 1839 Z 10 1840 Z cate 1841 ss e 1842 1843[N THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Revenue Department Procerpines,—(Concluded.) Vols. 1850 January to December eee , EBON: cee.” Thy a EGQe 5 i 2 1853 ,) 2 185 1, 9] i) e wy 1855 “ 9 SHR 1856 ” 4, 1857 The Proceedings from Ja 1, 1857 to May 1860 ar | 858 bound up with the Publie Proc ’ a ceedings, S$ (1880 ... dune to Dece nber ilo 19. Legislative Department Fro- ceedings.—The following is a List of the Volumes in this Department :— LATIVE DEPARTMENT PROCEEDIN Vols 1635... 6thJuly to December ... 2 1836 January to December 3 1837 Sos... ; 8 1839 9 1840 a S 1841 a 5 1842 9 7 1843 ‘3 2 oe & 4,4, eee ) 4 an O4 ; ., IQAR Fy i i b iy eee v 1850 i 9 185] ca dl 1852 9 1853 5 eee 6 1854 8 Total oe Lig Sa eR oo TT = a = ee 4- = anaes 4 TY) v aa 20. Marine Department Proceedings. —The following isa List of the Volumes preserved in this Department :— 4 MARINE DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. Vols, 1838 ... May to December at 1839 .,.. January to December... 1Oe ei LL Te eel ay Say MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS Dupartment Procerptnes,—(Concluded.) Vols. lL MARINE 1840 January to December 1841 “ 1842 . l 1 1843 a l 1844 * 2 1845 9 2 1846 + 2 1847 2 2 1848 - 1849 - eee 1850 « ee 1851 ss as e 9 1852 an gE 1853 me 1854 * ae © 1855 oe 1856 = a 1857 ie , ee 1858 see eee poet wae The Proceedings from January 1857 to May 1860 1860 June to December 7 l } At naw ry 4. a4 91. Educational Department Pro- ceedings.—Lhe following is a List:-of the Volumes in this Department :-—~ E pUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. 1857 : 1858 see A r ar r E 1859 vas te ( 1860 ee June to De cem | el Se ' ’ Latins ln] Ag? TV lan AT vy 5 92. Electric Telegraph Department Proceedings.—Tuhe following is a List of the Volumes in this Department :— Exectric TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGs. 1857 "* 1858 oe Ee :a8* a ) re: ae eparate volumes from January . 1857 to Mav ; : rT} hates sa pect A009 a... eal ; Electric Telegraph Department for 1860 ... June to Decembe < i. ire bound up with the Public P aadiinan 23. Post Office Department Pro- ceedings.—T'he following isa List of the Volumes in this Department :— ‘ Post Orrice Deparrment Procerpy VGs 7 ~~ ~~» v ‘ +. ° a incut ‘ 1355 ike vse There e** iere are no separate volome oe cre Pidiest ee! ry 1857 to M 7 ‘ames from January Ov ee ~ , ay BO The Pro lines of the a - ! Ae ‘i te i Po Ofhc Depart for tl : : I nent for this period are 1860 .., June to December i oan ) bound up with the Public Proceedings,IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 75 24. Proceedings of Madras and Bombay.—In addition to the pro- ceedings of the Government of India, in the Home Department, it would seem that duplicate copies of the vevenue, Judicial, and Miscellaneous Proceedings of the Governments of Madras and Bombay were received in this Department. There are a few volumes only from Madras. Those from Bombay commence from the year 1786, and come down to the year 1819. The following is a list of the Madras and Bombay Proceedings :— MADRAS PROCEEDINGS. Reven we Department. Vols 1781 and 1782 = iene 1782 ae oa ee 2 1783 ae ne a » - 1784 ‘s 5 1784 and 1785 l 1785 2 1793 1 1799 6 Judicial Department. 1799 2 1807 and 1805 l 1811 1 Miscellaneous Papers. Miscellaneous Papers 1799 cake a General Orders 1799 .. ce General Report of the Revenue 1 Board 1811. Correspondence. Correspondence regarding the Judi- 2 cial system 1814 to 1815. Country and other Correspondence 1792 _ Siz (hath 1797 a ons 1 1798 and 1799 ie ee 1802 aesoe = vi POR Re EN EN CTT MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS Board of Revenue, Opvum Department. 1788 and 1789 1790 and 1791 1792 17938 Board of Revenue, Salt Department. 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 BoMBAY PROCEEDINGS, Revenue Department. oe . 8 5 ~ 7 7 7 SS eee 5 1790 1791 a 1793 ie 1794 1795 1801 1802 18038 1804 a 1805 = 1806 1807 Ls 1808 = 1809 1810 +7 1811 ae 1812 18138 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 ee Judicial Department. leo) 1802 1808 Vols. ay — Or CH WW 72 72> —IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, of Customs, sioners in the Ceded and Conquered Judicial Department. (Concluded) 1804 1805 1806 1807 1805 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 Law and Public Departments. Law Proceedings 1802 Public Proceedings 1801 ed :— 1793 1795 1783 1790 1791 Vols. em Be Cc ™ Cc Monr Pr WwWWwNwws fF Oo 25. Straits Settlement Proceedings. —The following volumes are preserv- Vols, 96. Cededand Conquered Provinces Proceedings.—The following volumes comprise the Proceedings of the Board the Board of Commis- Provinces, and the Board of Revenue in the Central Provinces in the Customs Department, commencing from the year 1783 down to 1834 :— Vols.Oe DE ad lead en ca ee ail Fi * MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS CEDED AND CONQUERED PROVINCES PROCEEDING Vols, 1792 . 2 1792 2 1804 4, 1805 1 1807 1 J808 he 1809 5 1810 4. 1811 3 1812 ° 18138 6 1814 ia S L815 1, 1816 6 1817 6 aGLG 1819 & 1820 10 82 5 — { 1823 e 1824 G 1825 f 1826 1 1835 > 1834 1 27. Original Records,—It has already been stated that the originals of the papers recorded in the Proceedings have been preserved in bundles. Although these papers are duplicates, still their preservation seems desirable, inasmuch as it is more convenient to refer to papers than to bulky volumes. More- over in most cases they supply the place of missing volumes. Details as regards these bundles appear to be unnecessary, and they are, therefore, submitted in an abstract form. Public Department Sep. Revenue Department ... s,—(Concluded.) from 1761 to 1860 » 1790 to 1860 Bundles. see 6,322 3,110Law Department i Keclesiastical Department Judicial Department Revenue Department Legislative Department larine Depattment maucational Vepartmen mi gs es a by Mlectric Lelecraph Department 7 i i Post Ofhice Department : Ss HPettiement Fort Marlborouch ‘ : 1 , ' ] eded and Conquered 4 OverDnol] (seneral S Fro { HOME DEPARTMENT, Bundles. 1794 to 1835 _ to eae L$16.f0 1960 . ‘ing i Pee 3D4 to 16 Co. a. Olu 18384 to 1860... AT 89 05 to 1864. ... oa x 92 bao £6 1600... ... es ae, 938 ISB7 $0 1860: 2 coe pe 173 L657" to 1860 =... a " 185 790 to 1792 to 1794... 61 | i fo 180s —... et ae to £806... o 763 ) 18,482 28. Indexes to the Home Department Proceedings.—Tie Indexes to the Pro- ceedings in the Home Department are of a voluminous character, and are comprised in more than 800 folio vo- lumes. They are of considerable value as ameans of reference. Since 1860 they have been printed like the Pyro. ceedings, and are Consequently more available. Pustic Department INpDExgs. & 1753 to 1769 5 1770 to 1773 1 1778 ; 1 1774 to 1776 i Litt to 1779 1 1780 and 178] L 1782 | 1783 jes i 1784 2 1785 1 1786 1 17387 : l 1788 ; l Pree... s ay 1790 cae ie Ia ———— - a alan inet ee Pusuic DePpaARTMENT INDEXE 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1795 1799 1800 1801 1S02 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 LS16 1817 1818 1819 1820 182] 1822 1825 1224 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1850 1531 832 ] 183: 18: ] ad MEMORANDUM ON THE RECORDS $ — (Continued). ee ee ee ms — ee ee ee — — _— _— — ped ed i Juan inl idl = LeadIN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, IID con ke go Bl : + PuBLic DepaRTMEN1 InpExEs,— (Concluded.) 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