3: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the...

IOR/L/PJ/3/1057 No.11

3: Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the General (Miscellaneous) Department, for the 3rd Quarter of 1857

Jan 1856-Dec 1857

The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page, a table of contents, and an extract from the Narrative, No.26, dated 1st December 1857:. Coll 1, Reports on the public charities assisted by Government in several of the districts under the Bengal Presidency in 1857; Coll 2, Application for the appointment of an additional Assistant Surgeon to the Western Division of the city of Patna, March to December 1857; Coll 3, Report of the Inspector of Dispensaries, Lower Provinces, on the Kishnaghur Charitable Dispensary, 7th April 1857; Coll 4, Names of the gentlemen who had been appointed Members of Committees of Charitable Dispensaries and Hospitals during the 3rd quarter of 1857; Coll 5, Papers regarding the temporary smallpox hospital connected to the Medical College, February to December 1857; Coll 6, Sanction of the Supreme Government to the entertainment of an Establishment for the efficient management of the Lunatic Asylum at Bhowanipore, February to December 1857; Coll 7, Papers regarding the additional Establishment for the Native Insane Hospital at Dullunda, May to December 1857; Coll 8, Correspondence regarding the postponement of the erection of wards for refractory patients at Bhowanipore Lunatic Asylum, June to December 1857; Coll 9, Correspondence regarding the establishment of charitable hospitals and dispensaries in the Bengal Presidency, and the aid afforded by Government to them during the 3rd quarter of 1857, March to December 1857; Coll 10, Correspondence regarding rewards to certain native doctors deputed by the Magistrate of Barasat into the districts during the late prevalence of cholera, March to December 1857; Coll 11, Accounts and Statements relating to the Calcutta Native Hospital and its attendant Dispensaries for the year 1856; Coll 12, Correspondence regarding four Sub-Assistant Surgeons placed under the orders of the Principal of the Medical College, due to the unsettled state of the country, until such time as they may be directed to join their appointments in the North Western Provinces, June to December 1857; Coll 13, Monthly Returns of patients in the Bhowanipore Lunatic Asylum for June to August 1857; Coll 14, Correspondence regarding the dismissal from the public service of a Bengali class native doctor named Peary Mohun Gupto, July to December 1857; Coll 15, Statement of the disbursements on account of the Prossonath [Prosonath] Dispensary at Beauleah [Banleah] and the School and Dispensary at Nattore [Natore] for the 2nd quarter of 1857, and the account current for the Prosonath Roy Fund for the year 1856; Coll 16, Papers and minutes by the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal on the subject of the preliminary examination of candidates for employment in the higher grades of the uncovenanted services of Government, January 1856 to December 1857; Coll 17, Correspondence regarding Chaplains not being entitled under the Stationery Rules of February 1851 to receive supplies of stationery from the Government stores, May to December 1857; Coll 18, Correspondence with H Ricketts, Commissioner for the revision of Civil Salaries and Establishment throughout India, regarding the process observed in the Bengal Secretariat in placing a case before the Lieutenant Governor and taking His Honors orders thereon, and the opinion of A R Young, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, as to whether the labour and responsibility of a Secretary to a Governor in Council are greater or less than the labour and responsibility of a Governor without a Council, January to December 1857; Coll 19, Allegations made H Piddington, Geological Curator to the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, that the Society had misused public money entrusted to their care, December 1856 to December 1857; Coll 20, Correspondence regarding an unfounded statement in the Hurkura newspaper of the 19th June 1857 regarding the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, June to December 1857; Coll 21, Items written off to profit and loss in the accounts of the Deputy Commissioner of Assam, April to December 1857; Coll 22, Correspondence regarding Sudder Ameens [Sadr Amins] at detached stations being allowed to send letters on the public service free of postage to all Judicial authorities, June to December 1857; Coll 23, Correspondence regarding damages paid to Seetaram Sahoo on account of the detention of his two boats, which were seized by the Collector of Bhagalpur, July to December 1857; Coll 24, Correspondence authorising the Medical Board to have printed monthly such number of copies of the Meteorological Registers furnished by the Medical Officers of the several stations of the Bengal Presidency as was considered necessary for distribution to the public institutions and societies in Bengal to which such returns might be useful, October 1856 to December 1857; Coll 25, Correspondence showing the steps which were taken to distribute the 47 certificates awarded to contributors to the Paris Exhibition resident in the Bengal Presidency, May to December 1857; Coll 26, Memorandum on certain matters (not connected with education) to which the attention of W G Young, Director of Public Instruction, had been drawn during his recent trip to Assam, with related correspondence, February to December 1857; Coll 27, Papers relating to the examination of junior civilians and uncovenanted officers who were liable to examination in October 1857; Coll 28, Correspondence regarding the completion of the Burrisaul [Barisal] Station Library and donations of books thereto, September to December 1857; Coll 29, Correspondence regarding licenses granted to use printing presses under Act XV of 1857, January to December 1857. Includes lists of newspapers, books and pamphlets published in the various divisions of Bengal during the year 1856; Coll 30, Measures taken for the preservation of grain in the Lower Provinces, July to December 1857; Coll 31, Indent from the Reverend R Norman, Chaplain of Dum Dum, for stationery required for a depot school at that station, August to December 1857; Coll 32, Correspondence concerning the unsatisfactory explanation of H A Mangles, Second Assistant Accountant General, regarding his non-attendance at the examination of assistants which took place in April 1857, August to December 1857; Coll 33, Items of expenditure (disbursements) passed during the 3rd quarter of 1857

For the original Draft Despatch, No.11 of 1858, dated 29 September 1858, see IOR/L/PJ/3/1035 pp.42-59.

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