Papers on judicial and revenue Matters.

(1) p. i, Contents. (2) pp. 1-9, ''Memorandum respecting Sir George Barlow's promised Digest of the Answers to Lord Wellesley's Queries regarding the advantages of the Bengal Judicial System and Permanent Settlement circulated amongst the Judges of Bengal in the year 1801.'' By James Cumming (a clerk in the Secretary's Office, India Board) October 1808. (3) pp. 13-23, ''Memorandum respecting the Irregular Transmission of the Regulations from India.'' By James Cumming, India Office, 2nd Dec. 1809. (4) pp. 25-98, ''Abstract View of the General Provisions of the Judicial System of Fort St. George in regard to Civil Justice.'' Not signed, but apparently by Cumming, with autograph notes on slips pinned to certain pages, July 1811. (5) pp. 99-166, ''Permanent Settlement,'' Notes of the Correspondence since the year 1734 between the Court of Directors and the Madras Government in regard to a Permanent Settlement and the proceedings adopted up to 1803 for introducing that Measure, with an outline of the leading principles on which it is founded. By James Cumming, 1st Jan. 1811. (6) pp. 169-70, ''References to Measures respecting the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Administration of Justice in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces.'' (7) pp. 173-208, ''Notes respecting the Rules of Police in the Lower Provinces of Bengal and an account of the state of it in 1808 as taken from the Dispatches received,'' March 1811. (8) pp. 213-6, Paragraphs (not complete) intended for insertion in a Judicial Dispatch to Madras 29th April 1814, relative to use of Muhammadan Law, Note by Cumming to the effect that the Board preferred to let the matter stand over. (9) pp. 217-37, Account of the Progress of Judicial Administration in the Bombay Territory. By James Cumming, 1809. (10) pp. 241-79, ''Memoranda of leading points in the Revenue Administration in the Territories subject to the Bombay Government since the establishment of the India Board.'' By James Cumming, 1809.

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