'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 84.

The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into fourteen items:. Disposal of the Old Lids of the Iron Post Boxes Used for the Closed Mails between England and India (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 4-8); Persian [Iranian] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 9-136); Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 137-170); Persian Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 171-237); Reports on the Progress Made in the Formation and Training of the Recruits of the Three New Regiments of Native Infantry Being Raised Under the Bombay Presidency (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 238-245); The Construction of Defence Works at Aden (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 246-276); Persian Gulf Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 277-330); Aden Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 331-360); The Suggestion of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia of Increasing the Duty Levied at Bussorah [Basra] on the Export of Horses (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 361-370); The Arrival of Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood at Bombay, and the Large French Naval Force Collected at Bourbon [Réunion] (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 371-381); The Sawunt Warree [Savantvadi or Sawantwadi] 'Insurgents' in Confinement at Goa (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 382-435); The Proposed Defences of the Fort and Harbour of Bombay (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 436-440); The Scinde [Sindh] Prize Property (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 441-547); Aden Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 548-577); The copies of enclosures to despatches are dated 1 October to 2 November 1846, but one of the items (IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 331-360) includes a note dated 29 October 1906, recording that two enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are missing from the item.

The enclosures to each despatch within the volume (each item) are divided by blue dividers. The sets of enclosures to despatches are arranged in numerical (by despatch number) and chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. The enclosures within each despatch are preceded by an abstract of contents (except IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 4-8 and IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 277-330), in which the despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1, the abstract of contents 2, and the enclosures 3, 4, etc. The numbers listed in the abstract of contents are recorded for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure, along with the original reference, and a description of each enclosure.

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