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1. Euphrates Expedition
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 69 of 1840, dated 16 September 1840.A note in black ink states that the enclosure to Bombay Secret Letter, Number 68, dated 28 August 1840, is not in this collection.The enclosures to No. 69 are numbered 3-13 and are dated 18 May-25 October 1840.They consist of correspondence relating to the Euphrates Expedition, and specifically the auditing of its accounts, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Blosse Lynch.Correspondents include: the Military Auditor General, Commander Lynch, and the Secretary to the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (24 folios)
2. Letter from Henry Fawcett to Harford Jones
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- Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Fawcett, Accountant-General and Civil Auditor of the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 21 September 1799.The letter states that Jones’s accounts for the period September 1798-June 1799 have been audited and passed by the Governor of Bombay without objection.A duplicate of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/83.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
3. Letter from Henry Fawcett to Harford Jones
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- Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Fawcett, Accountant-General and Civil Auditor of the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 21 September 1799.The letter states that Jones’s accounts for the period September 1798-June 1799 have been audited and passed by the Governor of Bombay without objection.A duplicate of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/101.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
4. Letter from Henry Fawcett to Harford Jones
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- Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Fawcett, Accountant-General and Civil Auditor of the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 16 April 1800.The letter reports the audit of Jones’s accounts for the period July-October 1799, with comments from the Governor of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
5. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 54 of 1843, dated 18 July 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-43 and are dated 21 March to 17 July 1843.The enclosures mostly consist of correspondence, minutes of the Governor of Bombay subscribed to by the Board, and audits of disbursements, relating to affairs of Aden and the Northeast African coast. They concern matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that relations between the Arab tribes in the neighbourhood of Aden continue to be ‘tranquil’, that supplies into Aden are plentiful, and that the three convicts who escaped from confinement had not yet been apprehendedHaines reporting the return of the Honourable Company’s brig of war Tigrisfrom Zanzibar and the north-east coast of Africa, and submitting a report by the commander of the Tigris, Lieutenant William Christopher, of his proceedingsThe approval of the Governor of Bombay in Council of Christopher’s proceedingsThe Government of Bombay enquiring of the Government of India whether there is any objection to the Government of Bombay publishing a portion of the journal which would promote commerce with the places at which Christopher ‘met with a friendly reception’Haines making a requisition on the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Lieutenant Young, for the services of one of the Honourable Company’s vessels of war to proceed to Mussowah [Massawa or Mitsiwa], and from there to visit all ports along the Northeast African coast as far as Bunder Gassim [Bosaso]The proposal of the Governor of Bombay in Council, George Arthur, for the reduction of the Garrison at Aden by the withdrawal to Bombay of the detachment of the 16th Regiment Native Infantry, without reliefHaines submitting the names of persons who have received grants of land for building upon at Aden, his opinion that those people are hesitant to erect permanent buildings until a final decision has been passed by Government regarding the camp limits at Aden, and his proposals for the amount of Quit Rent to be leviedAn investigation by Haines into the conduct of the Aden Police Jemedar [Jemadar], and a party of Police, resulting in the Jemedar being found not guilty of theft, but guilty of assault on the Duffedar [Dafadar] of the Poona [Pune] Auxiliary Horse, Bahadoor Singh [Bahādur Singh], and the opinion of the Governor of Bombay in Council on the punishment which should have been imposed on the JemedarAudits by the Civil Auditor, Bombay, Edward Eden Elliot, on the disbursements of the Political Agent at Aden during the periods May to October 1841, 1 November 1841 to 31 January 1842, and 1 February to 31 April 1842The Government of Bombay commenting on certain items in Haines’s disbursements and cautioning him to limit his expenditure on the entertainment of different ‘Chiefs’ visiting Aden, and on presents given to visiting ‘Chiefs’, as much as possibleHaines being informed by the Government of Bombay that it does not approve of the tone of a letter from him, in which he provides an explanation for expenditure on the entertainment of ‘Chieftains’ visiting Aden, and on presents for themHaines’s explanation, requested by the Government of Bombay, for debiting to Government 250 Rupees per month for the salary of Shaik Tyeb Ibrahimjee [Shaikh Ṭayyib Ibrāhīmjī, also spelled Sheikh Tyeb Ibramjee in this item] during the period he was employed as Coal Agent at Aden, and also charging to Government the same rate of salary when Shaik Tyeb Ibrahimjee was sent by Haines to Maculla [Mukalla] to purchase provisions.The main correspondents are the following: Haines; the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, L R Reid; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; Lieutenant William Christopher, commanding the Honourable Company’s brig of war Tigris; and HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat, Captain Atkins Hamerton. Other correspondents include Seid ibn Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Imaum of Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (219 folios)