Year. Sessional Parliamentary Reports, &c. General of India since Stat. 33 Geo. III. cap. 52. Home accounts of East India Company. Resolution of Court of Directors granting pension to Marquis of Dalhousie. Names of all officers who were honourably mentioned in the despatches of Lord Gough. Copies of treaties with the Nawab of Baroda, Surat, and others. Correspondence relating to examinations for Civil Service. Copies of all treaties and connections made with the Native States of India since May 1, 1834. Prices for making up regimental clothing in India. Papers relating to Oude. First, second, third, and fourth reports of commissioners on reform of judicial establishments and laws of India. Report of commissioners on manufacture, sale, and tax on salt in British India, with maps and plans. Ships and emigrants dispatched from Calcutta to the West Indies, from the West to the East Indies, and from Madras to the Mauritius. Despatch of Directors relating to Government of Oude. Papers relating to the Nawab of Surat. Territorial revenues of East India Company for 1854-5. Circular of Governor-General in Council, dated February 28, 1856, calling for opinions on the Law Commission-Reports on judicial establishments, also Memorial of missionaries of Bengal on the state of that province, with the reply of the Government. Papers relating to military education at Addiscombe. Returns of charges to East India Government in growth and monopoly of opium 71 79 81 82 85 110 111 112 Return by the East India Government of the charges incurred in the growth and monopoly of opium. Correspondence relating to expedition to Persia. Papers relating to the Nawab of Surat. Correspondence relating to the Hindostan and Tibet-road-project, with the several Reports of Major Kennedy and Lieut. Briggs relating thereto. Returns of capital due to various East Indian railways from East India Company. Return of law expenses in England charged on revenues of East India Company, or to be charged thereon for the years 1855 and 1856. Return showing value of silver coinage. at mints of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. Home accounts of East India Company. Despatch from Court of Directors relating to memorial of Missionaries. Return showing under which tenure and subject to which land-tax lands are held in the several Presidencies. Correspondence relating to torture in India. Despatches relating to confiscation of territories of Ameer Ali Morad. Returns of outlay by East India Company on Indian railways and canals. Despatch relating to police system in Bengal Presidency. Territorial accounts of East India Com pany. 117 118 120 127 135 140 166 Returns of all creditors on State of Oude. Despatch relative to Bengal Military Fund. 167 177 191 Estimate of sum to be voted in 1857, for the Persian expedition. Estimate of extraordinary expenditurePersian expedition. Account of expenditure by East India Company on China War. 193 Supplemental estimate ditto. Parliamentary Reports, &c. Correspondence respecting European troops. Despatch relating to police in Bengal. map. Return of area and population of all the Presidencies of India, and estimated population of Native States. Report of Sir C. Napier to the Duke of Wellington, on discipline of Indian army. Reprint of appendix to report on Indian territories, 1853. Extract of letter from Sir C. Napier to Duke of Wellington, June 14, 1850-Appendix to mutiny papers. Amount to the credit of "Security Fund," of East India Company under statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. cap. 85. Statement of importations, 1853 to 1855' Letter from the Court of Directors relative to the education of the Sonthals. Measures taken relative to cotton since APPENDIX A. MR. FOX'S EAST INDIA BILLS. First Bill. "A Bill for vesting the Affairs of the East India Company in the hands of certain Commissioners, for the benefit of the Proprietors and the Public;" introduced into the House of Commons, in November, 1783. WHEREAS disorders of an alarming nature and magnitude have long prevailed, and do still continue and increase, in the management of the territorial possessions, the revenues, and the commerce of this kingdom in the East Indies, by means whereof the prosperity of the natives hath been greatly diminished, and the valuable interests of this nation in the said territorial possessions, revenues, and commerce have been materially impaired, and would probably fall into utter ruin if an immediate and fitting remedy were not provided: S. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the government and management of the territorial possessions, revenues, and commerce of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, by the Directors and Proprietors of the said Company, or either of them, and all dia Bills. and singular the powers and authorities of the said Directors Fox's Inand Proprietors, or of any special or general or other Court thereof, in the ordering and managing the said possessions, revenues, and commerce, and all elections of Directors of the said United Company, be, and are hereby declared to be, discontinued for and during the continuance of this Act, any charter, usage, law, or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. S. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for the better governing, ordering, and managing the said territorial possessions, revenues, and commerce, the Right Honourable William Earl Fitzwilliam, the Right Honourable Frederick Montagu, the Right Honourable George Legge, commonly called Lord Viscount Lewisham, the Honourable George Augustus North, Sir Gilbert Elliott, Baronet, Sir Henry Fletcher, Baronet, and Robert Gregory, Esquire, shall be and they are hereby constituted and appointed Directors of the said United Company, and shall be and they are hereby constituted members of the said Company; and that the said Directors hereby appointed, or any three of them, shall have, use, possess, and exercise all and singular the powers and authorities which have been at any time heretofore vested in, or lawfully exercised by, the said Directors hereby discontinued, or Proprietors, or by the General Court of Proprietors of the said United Company, and all such further and other powers and authorities, and under such directions, and subject to such limitations and restrictions as in this Act, or in any other Act, the provisions whereof are not hereby altered or repealed, are contained, for the government and management of the said territorial possessions, revenues, and commerce of the said United Company, or in anywise relative thereto. S. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Directors hereby appointed shall, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, immediately and after the commencement of this Act, to enter into and upon and to possess themselves of all lands, tenements, houses, and warehouses, and other buildings whatever of or belonging to the said United Company; and also to take into their custody and |