Madras Select Committee Proceedings; appointments at Madras.

(1) pp. 3-193, Extracts from Madras Select Committee Proceedings as to the powers vested in Sir Eyre Coote by the Governor-General and Council in exclusion of the Madras Government 3rd Feb. to 30th June 1782. (2) pp. 201-350, Correspondence between Madras and Bengal Councils on the same subject 7th July to 3rd Oct. 1782. (3) pp. 351-416, Proceedings of the Madras Select Committee relative to the appointment of Paul Benfield as Paymaster at Permacoil 1st Oct. to 18th Dec. 1783. (4) Proceedings of the Court of Directors and Correspondence relative to. pp. 419-25, Appointment of John Hollond as Governor of Madras 6th Oct. 1784; pp. 427-9, Appointment of Messrs. Corbett and Boyd as Joint Masters Attendant at Madras 24th Nov. 1784; pp. 431-44, Appointment of Gen. Abercrombie or Thomas Wallace as Governor of Madras 28th July 1813; pp. 449-53, Appointment of Lord Hobart as Governor of Madras 9th Oct. 1793; pp. 461-3, Appointment of Major-Gen. Alured Clarke as Commander-in-Chief and Member of Council at Madras 28th April 1795; pp. 469-71, Appointment of George Hilaro Barlow as Governor-General and of Lord Cavendish Bentinck as Governor of Madras 10th Nov. 1802; pp. 481-503, Attempt of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the Board of Control, to force the Court of Directors to appoint Thomas Wallace as Governor of Madras under pretence that such appointments must be subject to the approval of the King's Ministers.

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