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COMMISSIONER'S  RECORD
Introduction
The record acquired from the office of the then Chief Commissioner in Sindh is generally
known as Commissioner's  Record. It is a rich source of informational, historical,
monetary and
evidential value pertaining to Sindh. The British Government established
record rooms for the preservation of archives in the subcontinent. All the records
preserved in the record room were of
the Commissioner's Offices . It was the prime
government office in Sindh working under Bombay
Presidency.
History
In the Record room of the Commissioner Office, the arrangement and storage of earliest
records started as early as 1831. The files were arranged chronologically on racks,
numbered
permanently. They were all in six ranges containing 62 racks which were
again divided into 558 compartments. Each set of records was kept together and arranged
according to the following
arrangement (then called classification) adopted in the
index or list of files:

1. a. The Sind mission files containing papers describing events up to the battle of Meanee
in 1843, and
b. Records of Sir Charles James Napier about his administration in Sindh from 1843
to 1847 were kept separate from those subsequent to 1847. The basis of sub-arrangement
was according to the nature of correspondence contained in them.
2. The perusal of records from 1843 to 1847 reveals that government work was not divided
into departments. This practice continued up to October 1847 when Sir Charles James
Napier
retired and the province was annexed to Bombay Presidency. Through the appointment
of Commissioner, the government work for the first time was divided in the departments
in
September 1847. Government business was distributed into three main departments
as under: 
a. Revenue,
b. Political, and
c. General.

The records of English and Vernacular up to 1857 were kept in separate

racks according to departments,
Mr. Richardson prepared 192 manuscript files in 1913, and
Indexes and
catalogues of 212 files were made.

1. In 1851, an attempt was made under the orders of the Bombay Government to introduce
the compilation system of keeping records both in the Commissioner's office and
in the
offices of the district officers. According to this system, certain fixed
numbers were allotted to different subjects under departments. Each subject head
was again divided into several
sub-heads and papers relating to each subhead were
filed chronologically in a white cover, the compilation being identified by numbers
given to them in serial order. At the close of the
year, all correspondences were
scrutinized and bound together in volumes of equal thickness, selected after the
appraisal. The files were kept without alphabetical arrangement. This
compilation
system was brought into force in 1857 and files had been arranged chronologically
of each department for the periods 1857 to 1909 and 1910 to June 1922.
2. The Maxwell System of office procedure was introduced in the Commissioner's office
in June 1922. Since then, the arrangement for keeping the files was completely altered.
According to this system, a separate case on a subject was given to an individual
number and the whole correspondence on the cases was kept in chronological order.
A general index
was prepared in which all cases belonging to the several departments
of the office were entered. It was printed and a copy of it was kept in the record
room for the purpose of
reference After sixty years when Sindh became an independent
province on April 1, 1936 (Solvent, 1995, p-830), the practice of preserving record
also went into oblivion. According to
former. All the important record of general,
judicial, political, public works and revenue departments preserved at Sindh Archives
belong to pre 1920 era. All Commissioners offices in
the subcontinent deposited
their 20 years old records in the record rooms. When Sindh became the independent
province, the process of depositing old record was stopped. The
precious record
preserved in the Record room was also neglected and laid in dark rooms without care
from 1936 to 1992. Pakistan got independence and Karachi became the capital
of the
country in 1947. Consequently, a department of National Archives and Libraries was
set up in 1949 under the Ministry of Education. When Islamabad became the capital,
a
Provincial Archives was built and after establishment there was a need to get
archival record for preservation. The attention was paid to the neglected record.
To take the care of this
important record, it was handed over to Sindh Archives
for preservation. Importance of Record

Most of the records are in English with only a few in Persian and Hindi. These records
contain correspondence, circulars, directives, memorandas, exchange of notes, treaties,
etc between the
concerned agencies, i.e. President and Governor in Council, Chief
Secretary to Government of Bombay, the Government of India, Colonel Pottenger, Meers
of Sindh, Sir Charles James Napier,
etc. When we look on the importance of this
record in the history of province, only few references are worthy of mention:

1. Three finding aids which were prepared by the commissioner office, (a) Alphabetical
catalogue of the contents of pre-mutiny records of the commissioner in Sindh-1857
in 1931,
printed by the commissioner's printing press, Karachi, (b) A hand book
of the Government records lying in the office of the commissioner in Sind and in
district offices in 1933,
published by commissioner printing press, and (c) Catalogue
of files kept in the commissioner's office library from 1857 to 1909 (Zafar, 1990,
p. 504).
2. The records of British period are well preserved in the IOLR in form of numerous
reports. An important series of the reports was Annual Administrative Report of
the Bombay
Presidency from 1861-1933 and there were also annual administrative reports
of each department of the province of Sindh. Another series of the reports was Revised
Survey and
Settlement Reports of each Taluka of the Province issued every 10th year
since 1871 to 1932. The reports carried statistics on crops, crop areas, irrigation
areas and population of
each Taluka. The census reports besides statistics give
important information on languages, ethnic groups, castes and tribes. All these
reports are rare in Sindh Archives but are
preserved in the IOLR London.

Details of Record
The commissioner office records in SINDH ARCHIVES dates back to early 19th century
covering the period from 1820 to 1935. The quantity of this record comprises 34465
sub files. The
record can be divided in to two periods

a. Records relating to Pre-mutiny (Independence Movement) from 1832 to 1857 and records
from 1858 to 1935.

Political Record
Political Record of Commissioner Office from 1832 to 1860
File Subject and Contents Years Pages
4 Political Matters 1849 180
4 Khairpur State 1844-50 4
6 Jagheers Kurrachee, Dewan Chandeeram of Tultee 1844-51 99-194
8 The Governor General passes through Sind 1850 114
13 Inward and Outward Register 1832 772
 Miscellaneous (white lock, lieutenant, post master at Tatta Scinde).
21 1839 711
Native
Infantry Regiment
Temporary Dak between Roree and Jeysulmere for the detachment of
29 1858-60 322
Sind Horse 
Civil and Police furnished India Army Commission in England and
29 1859 204
Hajee Ahmed Sindee
banished from Hyderabad/ Nizam's 
33 Kelat Affairs  1859 860
41 Political Miscellaneous Weekly Frontier Reports  1848-51 324
41 Accounts of Captain Eastwick (Political agent at Shikarpur) 1848-51 64-51
49 Ex Amirs of Sind and their Families Hyderabad and Mirpur  1855 486
55 Circulars 1850 195-242
58 Commissioner in Sinde Pay and Allowances fixed 1848-49 353-382
78 Frontier Posts 1847 73-138
98 Hill Tribes 1847 223-308
103 Jagheers Hyderabad 1855 180-475
105 Frontier Posts  1850 75-98
111 Political Matters  1841-42 340
113 Public Works  1848 653-706
116 Political Matters  1852 198
123 Political Matters  1852 178
125 Major Jacob recommends the release of some Mazaree Belooch 1848 383-640
 prisoner and prisoners
of war 
130 Khairpur State  1852 504
134 Khairpur State  1843-51 528
145 Two British officers in Political Employ murdered at Mooltan 1848 286
146 Khairpur State 1850 45-74
146 Boundary between Khelat and Sind  1853-61 472
Punjab about belonging to the Late Durbar brought down the Indus for
155 1850 347-364
sale 
Rajputana States Jodhpur, Recommendation from the Commander of
157 1847-49 308
the forces in Sind 
140 Kelat Affairs  1851-52 270
163 Khairpur State 1850 365-368
183 Political Superintendent on the Frontier Establishment  1848-51 707-802
184 Petitions of Khairpur, Erection of a house for the resident  1850 25-44
191 Trade  1838-41 526
197 Iron and Property found in the Forts of Mittee and Islamcote  1848-49 352-352
Copies of the correspondence of Sir Charles Napier with Government
201 1843-51 453
of India 
204 Political Agency in Lower Sind 1850 243-318
210 Steamers of the Indus Flotilla Freighted 1850 13-24
211 Political Miscellaneous  1839 711
212 Political Appointments and Affairs  1839-44 774
213 Representation made to H.H. Ali Murad in matter of demand  1850 345
345 Standing Orders (1821-1847)  1847 311-306
245 Shikarpore Collectorate, Sanads and Jagheers  1847 72
245 Matters relating to Families of Ameers 1852-55 730
 Hyderabad Collectorate relating to the Exchange of Land between H.H.
260 1847-51 266
Meer
Ali Murad and the Govt. of Scinde 
Mir Ali Murad and Allah Buksh, Ismael Khan Talpur, Kurrum Ali Shah
275 1852-54 635
etc 
277 Miscellaneous Khelat  1839-42 873
278 Miscellaneous Kelat Military Operations  1839-42 590
287 Affairs of Sind 1838 462
288 Affairs at Luss Beyla  1839-40 202
302 Affairs of Scinde  1833-39 1186
339 Pay Master Shah Shoojah's force 1839 166
vi Political Bills and Receipts  1848-49 327-392
viii Accounts of captain Eastwick Political Agent at Shikarpur  1848-51  641-652
Jagheers and Free Grants in the Taluka Mohabat Derah 1855 127-179
Diraries, English Letters received  1840 272
Disturbance in Naggur Parkur 1859-60 778

Note.The spellings of all the words are included as in the contents of original
files like Scinde or Sind instead of
Sindh, Khelat or Kelat, Kurrachee
instead of Karachi etc. The arrangement of the files is according to file
numbers.
Contents of the Files of Political Record from 1833-1860
All the contents are included as it is taken from the original files of the Commissioner
Office Records used by the staff of that time. There are many words those had different
spellings and
pronunciation at that time when compare them with the present usage.
Original correspondences on the following subjects are present in the files given
under:

Affairs of Scinde 1833-39

1. Correspondence between the native agent in Scinde, resident in Cutch and the Ameers
of Scinde.
2. Report in detail on the negotiation with the government of Scinde during
the Governor General's agent for the affairs of Scinde.
3. Proceedings of the resident
in Scinde, Sir Alexander Burnes on a mission to Kelat and the arrangement of reserve
force for Scinde.

Political Agent 1838

Political agency in lower Sind, sum advanced in 1838 by the political agent in Rukish
Arabia to the agents of Meer Nusseer Khan towards the repair of a canal at Kerbaella.

Affairs of Sind 1838

1. Erection of beacons at the Hujjamree and Kuddamaree month of the Indus to mark the
entrance of the channels of outer Buoy
2. Ill treatment by the subject of Ameers of Sind to dealers and boatman, the fleet
of boats freighted by Maharajah Runjeet Singh and other merchants of Punjab with
merchandize for the
Bombay market
3. Contribution or annual tribute for H. M. Shah Soojaool Moolk by the Ameers of Sind
4. Lieutenant East Wick and Leekie appointed assistant resident in Sind
5. Lieutenant Ramsay appointed assistant quarter master general in Sind
6. Responsibility of native chiefs for property plundered from their countries
7. Intercepted letter from Mehrab Khan of Kelat to Meer Mahomed at Hydrabad & other
8. Establishment of Dawk between Hydrabad and Ajmere
9. Steam communication between Bombay and the mouth of the Indus
10. Iron steamer for
the River Indus for service in Sind
11. Pretended Vakeel of Persia offering his
opinion as to the evil effect of granting passport and other Corres
12. Survey of
Kurrachee harbour and the coast of Sind
13. Report of a journey from Mandavie to
Hydrabad by a member of the Sind mission
14. Treaty of friendship between the EIC
and the government of Sind in 1800-20
15. Treaty with the government of Sind Hydrabad,
1832
16. Supplemental treaty with the government of Hydrabad in Sind 1832
17. Commercial treaty between EIC and the government Hydrabad in Sind 1834
18. Treaty
with Meer Roustam, Chief of Khyrpoor 1832.

Trade 1838-41
1. Town duties at Shikarpoor (1838 41)
2. Import & export duties levied at Kandahar
3. Track of Sonmeanee
4. Papers regarding
5. Trade of Kurrachee
6. Statistics
for 184849 to 1850 51
7. Trade of Sind
8. Measures for improving, Kurrachee
fair, Improvement of the harbour for Kurrachee and abolition of frontier duties
(1850)
9. American trade with the Mekran coast papers relating to (1853); and 
10. Slave trade, traffic between India and ports in the Persian Gulf, (1852 55).

Affairs at Luss Beyla 1839-40

1. Existence of copper & antimony near Shah Bellawul in the territory of Luss Beyla
2. Transfer of Sonmeanee by H. H. Shah Nawaz Khan to British Government since the merchants
heavily taxed on the road by the Belooch Sirdars; and
3. Letters to Jam of Beyla.
Miscellaneous Kelat Military Operations 1839-42
1. Proposals on the subsidizing of the Khan of Kelat doing the continuance of certain
military operations and other matters connected with the progress of Sir John Keanes
army in 1839
2. Mr. Ross Bells age calling for information on various points connected
with the organization of establishment etc at Dadur
3. Sanction to the expenditure
of Rs.5550/- on account of damage done to the crops by the passage of the army through
the district of Shawl
4. Mr. Ross Bells letter to Sir A. Burnes pointing out the
precarious state of the country on account of disturbances on the frontier in Sind
and lamenting why Mehrab Khans territory was
not occupied by the British troops
5. Appointment of Lieutenant Besant in place of Major Griffiths in charge of political
affairs at Dadur
6. Feelings of Sayyed and other prominent people of Shawl and
Mastung in consequence of the unsettled state of British relations with Kelat and
resource to conciliatory measures;
7. Measures for the punishment of Mehrab Khan (Khan of Kelat) for the contumacy cruelty
and perfidy displayed by him doing the campaign of 1839
8. Information about re-enforcement
required for keeping communication open with Afghanistan and for chastising Baloches
etc
9. Shah Nawaz Khans efforts to regain the throne at Kelat
10. Mehrab Khans
understanding to abdicate on the condition of being allowed to remain at Kelat and
have portion of territory assigned for his expenses
11. Kelat affairs, deposition
of Mehrab Khan and placing Shah Nawaz Khan on the throne operations against Kelat
12. Kelat affairs, An account of Jutgals and their possessions, transfer of the provinces
of Cutchee, Shawl and Mastung to the government at Kabul Gandawa
13. A detailed
account of improvements etc. effected by Shah Nawaz Khan after his assumption of
authority on 24th November 1839
14. Arrangements for the policing of northern Cutchee
15. Affairs at Kelat, Shah Nawaz Khans surrender and his abdication
16. Mahomed Hasan
allies Naseer Khan son of Mehrab Khan taking possession of the throne
17. Incidents
connected with the recapture of Kelat
18. Sir W. H. Macnaghtans letter of May 1841
discussing the tenure of lands held by Brohees & the system of administering the
courts of Shawl and Mastung
19. Instructions to Mr. Ross Bell on the policy to be
followed by him in consequence Naseer Khans flight to Mekran and government disapproval
of his sending for Shah Nawaz Khan to
Quetta
20. Brohees instruction attributed
to the resumption of their lands etc
21. Arrangements for the settlement of Kelat
affairs, Major Butran succeeding Mr. Ross Bell in Upper Sind. Naseer Khans arrival
at Mastung
22. Kabul government mandate conferring the countries of Cutchee and
Mastung on Naseer Khan
23. Dispute between Mir Naseer Khan and Mir Shah Nawaz Khan
arising from Gul Mahomeds petition for the restoration of his family living with
Mir Shah Nawaz Khan at Shikarpoor; and
24. Relations between the British government and the Khan of Kelat etc.

Political Appointments and Affairs 1839-44

1. Messrs Bell and Young appointed resident and assistant resident respectively in
Upper Sind and other political officers
2. Major General Sir Charles Napier appointed
to the command of troops in Sind and Beluchistan
3. Abolition of agency Sind and
Beluchsitan from November 01, 1842
4. Captain Mallet resident at Khairpoor; (6) Lieutenant
Gordon appointed agent at Sonmeanee
5. Dr. Gillander appointed to the medical charge
of the post of Quetta and Boolan
6. Suggests that captain W. Pottinger be attached
to reserve force
7. Captain J. Outram political agent lower Sind and instruction
from Colonel Pottinger on the affairs of Sind
8. Major J. Outram appointed political
agent, Sind and Beluchistan and instruction to Lieutenant Leccie assistant political
agent Hydrabad
9. Reverend C. Lang appointed Captain of Hydrabad also the question
of salary
10. Salary of H. E. Governor of Sind fixed rupees 8000 per month
11. Appointment of Mr. Maclerd
in survey department and the question of salary
12. Salary of the secretary to government
of Sind
13. Mr. Macleod appointed collector of customs Kurrachee
14. Lieutenant
McPherson appointed on special duty
15. Lieutenant Brown appointed assistant political
agent
16. Captain Pontardent assistant political agent
17. Lieutenant Brown
and Postan claim for acting allowance from the salary of the political agent, Upper
Sind
18. Temporary allowance to Captain Kennedy during his employment at the court
of Meer Rustam Khan of Khairpur
19. Lieutenant Colonel Stacy appointed on special
duty at Khelat
20. Lieutenant Pelly appointed third class assistant
21. Allowance
to captain Hart for the duty of interpreter; and 
22. Kelat affairs from January
to September 1840.

Advances to Khan of Kelat on Emergencies 1839-52

1. H.H the Khan of Kelat's application for aid in repressing the depredations of
the Murree Chiefs
2. Determination of the question of boundaries pertaining to
certain areas known by the name of Bagh between the Kelat state and the British territory
3. An account of certain tribal disturbances on the border and in Baluchistan
4. Khan of Kelat's request for pecuniary assistance from the British in view of
the Qanhar Sardar's preparations to attack Kelat to avenge the defeat of a detachment
of their troops which
had invaded the territory at Barege, the Khan attribute the
hostility of the Afghan to his ship with the British
5. Proposals to assist H.H
the Khan by a payment of rupees 50,000 on certain conditions. Major Jacob's view
as to the permanent mode of fixing the Kelat boundary so as to prevent
future disputes
6. An account of political relations with Kelat during 1850; and
7. Periodical
statements showing
i. Europeans and East Indians employed in a civil military or
medical capacity in the service of the Khairpur native state, and
ii. Lapses of
Jagir grants to the British government.

Political Matters 1841-42

1. British relations with the Ameers of Sind
2. Duty on articles for the Ameers of Sind
3. Reports on the conduct of the Ameers and of the receipt of tribute from the Ameers in Sind
4. Disputes between the Ameers
5. Protection of roads from the country of the Ameers of Hydrabad on the frontier of Shikarpur and the proposed guards and

Sir Charles Napier Correspondence 1843

Copies of the correspondence of Sir Charles Napier with the Government of India.

Khairpoor State and Mir Ali Murad 1843-52

1. British relations with Khairpur
2. Miscellaneous papers connected with Mir
Ali Murad
3. Re employment of Mirza Den
Mahomed Beg by H.H. Mir Ali Murad as his minister who was formerly dismissed for
being involved in certain questionable transactions (1848 - 1850)
4. Boundary disputes
with H.H Mir Ali Murad (1843-1848)
5. Resumption of territory from Mir Ali Murad,
measures adopted in taking possession of reduced territory
6. Trial by court martial
of Major R.L. Shawe, 22, 130-N. light infantry
7. British relations with Khanpur
8. Interrupted letters from Mir Ali Murad
9. Proposed of Mir Ali Murad to visit England
10. Minor Amirs residing at Khairpur
11. Dismissal of Munshi Ali Akbar Khan
12. Claim by Khemchand Wisundas
13. Forts surrendered to Jesulmere
14. Political superintendent on the frontier establishment sanctioned for Sinde
and Beeqarry canals, H.H. Mir Ali Morad obliged to supply labourers for the clearances.

Hill Tribes 1847

(1) Hill tribes, The Mundrancees, defeat by Lieutenant Young Husband, grant of the title of Khan Bahadur to Allif Khan, native adjutant of the Shikarpur police of 1848.

Frontier Posts 1847

Frontier posts, wells, three Puckah, authorized to be sunk at Khanghur & Khyree-Ke-Gurhee & two more and Dil Morad & Hussein-Ke-Ghurree.

Rajputana States Jodhpur 1847-49

1. Rajputana states Jodhpur, two Thakours under the accused of harbouring robbers who plundered on the borders of Sind
2. Rajputana states
3. Recommendation from the commander of the forces in Sind not to permit Syed Eneut Shah to enter British territory
4. Remains of the Late Ex-Ameers Mir Nusseer Khan
 5. Sutherland on the working of the international court of wakeels in Rajputana
6. Political miscellaneous papers.

Major Jacob Releases the Prisoners 1848

1. Major Jacob recommends the release of some Mazaree prisoners of war, and
2. The captain of police recommends the release of some Belooch prisoners of war
at Hydrabad (Prisoners of War).

              

Ex Amirs in Sind 1849

1. Removal of the families
Gahazipur (NWFP)
2. Relations and servants permitted to proceed to Calcutta and
return to Sind
3. Shah Nawaz Khan Kalora dynasty;
4. British relations with Afghanistan
5. Afghanistan Amirs Dost Mahomed Khan dispatch of arms and treasure (Special file
of 1856)
6. Flight of Pukar Khan, brother of Kakar Chief Gaffoor Khan
7. Lieutenant
Hammersley's explanation regarding the defences at Hy Kulzie
8. Destruction of
the rebel Goolam Khan's village
9. Early history of Kharan and the arrangement
of the city of Kelat by Shah Nawaz Khan the Prince of Khelat
10. Sunnuds to the
ancestors of Rehmuttoolla
11. Treaties with Shah Nawaz Khan and Meer Nusseer Khan
of Khelat
12. Pensions to Gool Mahomed, Abdool Kurreem and Guffoor Khan Chief
of Kakar
13. Pension to Mahomed Syed and Beebee Laha
14. Conduct of Shah Nawaz
Khan and his detention at Shikarpur that of Futteh Khan
15. Protection of Eastern
Cutchee frontier and Boolan pass, also memo on the passes with Jhallawan frontier
and its protection
16. Lieutenant Lovidays death at Kelat and the disposal of
his property, his conduct of while at that station reward his servants
17. Intelligence
of the dispatch of a Cossed by Dost Mahomed Khan Mehrab Khan of Kelat
18. Intelligence
that the Russians advance upon Khan
19. Soutee of revenue of Shawat, Cutchee and
Moostoong also occupation of Seebee and repairs to fort
20. Captain J. Outrams
journey from Kelat to Sonmeanee
21. Political agent at Quetta allowed to interfere
with the territorial right or privileges of any class of persons in Shawt or Moostoong
22. Pension to Naz Beebee mother of the Late Hasil Khan of Golundauz
23. Pension
to Moobarak Shah and grant of reward for services rendered to government
24. Pension
to the son of the late Laskar Khan Khyree
25. Proposed permanent residence for
prince Timour Shah at Benares or Allahbad and presents made to him by Sir Napier
on his reaching Sukkur
26. Pension to the widow of the late Goojar Khan Dufferdar
No 15
27. Proposed residence for Meer Shah Nawaz Khan of Kelat at Larkana
28. Reward to Durriah Khan Jukkranee
29. Rupees 6772 to Durriah Khan Jukkranee due
to Syed Mahmood Shurreef may be kept in deposit until it is claimed by that person
30. Instruction to the Khan of Kelat by H.E the Governor of Sind regarding the
punishing of the rebellions tribes
31.  Report of a conspiracy against Meer
Nussar Khan of Kelat formed by the Mahoree Sirdars.

Mir Ali Moorad and Others 1852-54

1.  Miscellaneous cases of Mir Ali Moorad and Allah Bukhsh
2. Ismael Khan
Talpoor (Nowshera and Kundiara district
3. Charitable grants, correspondence
and decisions
4. Jageer claims in Nowshera & Kundiara
5. Kurrum Ali Shah of Arban
6. Nubbee Shah
7. Mohbut Khan Murree
8. Kurrum Khan Talpoor (Jageer
boundary of Deh Batil)
9. Tabular statement of Jageers in Mora Talooka
10. Durya
Khan, Gazee Khan and Meeran Khan, Rinds
11. Najjooma Deea of Deuraz & some
correspondence on the subject of supply of the Jageer office
12. Draft, Summunds
for class A, in register of charitable grants, Nowshera and Kundiara
13. Buksha
and Abdul Khair Peerzadas of Kundiara
14. Allah Buksh Izhak Shah, Syuds of Nowshera
15. Noor Mahomed Boodul Khan Lall Bukhsh & Kalundur Bukhsh Julbanees
16. Syed Rojun Shah of Hellance
17. Sher Mahomed of Abad
18. Jullal Khan Murree
19. Mr. Teas dale
20. Yoosuf Khan Goolchanee
21. Mukdoom Meer Awul, and Mukdoom
Roshun Ali of Bella in Nowshera
22. Register of claimants of Free lands in Nowshera
23. Statement of sums received from the rubber crops of 1852 by certain mercenaries
of his highness Meer Ali Morad Khan
24. Jadeen Derwash
25. Faqqueers of Hullanee
26. Adhur Kullora; and 
27. Jiaffee Shah Syud.

Matters Relating to the Amirs 1852-55

1. Claims of Meers Zungee and Mooreed Hyder to Kohera
2. Report upon the petition
of Meer Zungee Khan for the production derived from four wells and four Charkas
3. Claims of Meer Jam Ninda to Deh Gujar and Deh Bunnud and Sobah Derah
4. Regarding disposal of the Jagheers of the late Meers Zungee Khan
5. Regarding payment of
pensions of two Khyrpoor Meer residing at Mehrabpur from Hyderabad treasury
6. Petition from Meer Ghulam Mustafa Khan asking for a grant and fodder etc. Various
correspondence regarding
7. Forwarding petition from Meer Hussan and the widow
of the late Meer Rustam praying that his highness Meer Ali Morad be prevented attending
the funeral of the late Rais Meer
Roostum
8. Petitions from widow and mother of
the late Meer Dost Mahomed Khan and from the widow of the late Meer Roostum and
senior Derah of Meer Nuseer Khan
9. Reporting death of Beebee Zenaib widow of
the late Meer Roostam
10. Petition from Wakeel of Meer Mahomed Khan son of Meer
Ghulam Hyder Khan
11. Petition from Meer Mahomed Khan Talpoor of Khyrpoor to be
put in possession of Deh. Kulora in Rohri
12. Meer Moorad Hyder Khan
13. Pension
to daughter of Meer Moorad Hyder (deceased) stopped in account of her marriage
14. Provision of senior Derah of Meer Nusseer Khan to be deducted from his pension
15. Debts of minor Meers proportion for residence
16. Forwarding petition from
Meer Allah Dittah grandson of Soliman for Share of Kohera
17. Claim against Meer
Ghulam Shah by Zemindars of Buttee for Rs. 109 Rs 20
18. Petition for small grants
of land for fodder from Meer Ali Murdan, Ali Akbar and Ghulam Mahomed of Mehrabpoor
19. Petition from Meer Ali Murdan Khan to be allowed to change the Jagheer of Bound
Maree
20. Lately granted to his son Moosuffer Ali for that of Bhartee in Noushera
21. Temporary pensions to members of Khairpur house
22. Claim to produce of Charkhas
on the Meer Wah
23. Forwarding copy of letter from Meers Ali Mahomed (Wali Mahomed)
regarding new building
24. Report on the petition of Meer Ahmed Khan
25.  Claims
of Meer Ghulam Hajee Mustafa Khan to Jagheers in Naushera and various correspondence
relative to the levy of certain shares on Jagheers in Naushera
26. List of Jagheers
in actual possession in Noushera and Kandiara at the time of resuming the districts
together with tree showing relationship by marriage and otherwise with reigning
family
27. Summary of and report on claims of Meer Roostum's sons and family
28. Meer Jam Ninda's mother in law information on regarding claims of Naushera
29. Calims and commissioner's decision thereon of Beebee Sumut widow of Meer Shahdad
Khan to Jagheer in Naushahra and Kandiara
30. Meer Mahomed Khan case
31. Memorandum
showing the provision which has been recommended for the maintenance of the minor
Meers of Khyrpoor House
32. Roll of stipendiary of the Khyrpoor house
33. Meer Chakur Khan of Khyrpoor

Boundary between Khelat and Sind 1853-61

1. Boundary between Khelat and Sind in 1853
2. Survey of the boundary between
Khelat & Sindh by Lieutenant E.I. Steuart in 1854
 3. Boundary between Khelat and Sind. 1855
4. Survey of the boundary between Sind & Khelat in 1856
5. Lieutenant C.I. Steurat map of the boundary between Khelat & the British territory
in 1857
6. Boundary between Sind and Khelat in 1860-61.

Ex Amirs in Sind 1855

 
1.  Pension to the widow of the late Meer Ali Moorad Khan, father of the Ex
Ameer Sher Mahomed
2.  Return to Sind of the Ex Ameer
3. Residences for the Meers
returned from exile. The buildings erected for them to be regarded as the private
property of the Meers
4. Death of Meer Mahomed Khan and provision for his son
Meer Shah Nawaz, his family and departments.

Jagheers 1855
1. Statement of Jagheers and free grants of every description in this Taluka Mohabat,
Derah Deputy Collectorate of Mahomed Khan- Ka- Tanda, Hyderabad collectorate Goonee
inclusive
of Agree.

Kelat Affairs 1858-59

1.  Measures adopted by the Khan to bring the Murrees to order extra subsidy to
the Khan
2.  Futteh Khan Brahooee, son of Beebee Saheb Khatoon
3. Remarks and
suggestions by Major Green as to the policy to be adopted by the British Government
toward that of Khelat (forwarded to Colonel Munro)
4. Gangaram the Ex Minister
of Khelat
5. Sirdar Jellalloodein of Candahar
6. Assistant surgeon Wake Field
in medical charge of the Khelat agency
7. Establishment for assistant surgeon Cook of the Khelat agency
8. Increase to the pay of the poll agents Moonshee
9. Subject of Khelat and their affairs not to be noticed except in judicial proceedings
10. Geological to Colonel Munro with commissioner
11. Presentation of the horse
Argus to the Khan
12. Morasilas
13. Assistant surgeon Cook to be attached to
the Brigade of Sind Horse
14. Photographic apparatus supplied to Doctor Cook
15. Complaint of maltreatment against the Khelat authorities by certain Afghan
traders.

Amirs of Sind 1858-60

1.  Temporary Dawk between Roree and Jeysulmere for the detachment of Sind Horse
2.  Bills, indents and abstracts of the levy
3. Morasilas
4. Mir Futteh Khan
offers to accompany Lieutenant Tyrwhitt against the rebel
5. Route from Jeysulmeer
to Bikaneer
6. Presents to the Rowal of Jeysulmeer and other chiefs
7. Major
Goldsmiths mission to Jeysulmeer
8. Dawk line between Roree and Jeysulmeer.

Political Matters 1859

1.  A statement of the civil and police furnished the India army commission in
England
2.  Hajee Ahmad Sindee banished from Hydrabad / Nizams
3. Narrative of the proceeding
of the Wagheers in Okha and rebellion there
4. Copy of correspondence from the
old records of the political agent office Sind and Belochistan forwarded to government
5. E. R Princep Esquire charged with the care of certain presents from the Maharaja
of Cashmore to be assisted in the execution of his commission
6. Administration
report for 1858-59 expedited by government
7. Proposition to embody into the Beloch
battalion certain Mekranies and Belochies of Hussan Khans levies at Ahmadabad
8. Miscellaneous.

Disturbance in Nuggur Parkur 1859-60

1.  Attack by the rebels of the June 20, 1859 on Nuggur Parkur
2.  The Rao of Cutch Rana and Akkajee
3. Trial of prisoners at Nuggur Parkur and return of
Captain Lambert to Hydrabad
4. Rana and Bhoput Sing sheltered in Cutch Enquiry
into the causes of the outbreak
5. Colonel Evans report
6. Squadron of Sind
and carriage of arms and accoutrements of the police
7. Confiscation of property
of rebels
8. Tents, shelter for troop at Nuggur, jailor for Nuggur.

Judicial Record

Judicial Record of the Commissioner Office from 1841 to 1860

1 Jail affairs in Sind 1859 278

4 Miscellaneous police  1859 588
6 Bills and accounts of police  1853 211-382
9 Sind expedition 1843 116
9 Regarding the insufficient accommodation for the number of prisoners in jail   1856 322-351
13 Establishment police  1859 518
17 Noomryahs (Mulk Ahmed Khan Noomryah) 1843 579
20 Military commissions, trial in Upper Scinde 1844 842
21 Hydrabad military commission proceeding of trial  1844-46 760
1844-
23 Trials of military commission 688
1848
24 Inspection report of Lt. Dureat Adjutant of Kurrachee police 1860-61 599-652
38 On the subject of apprehension & convictions in the Zillahs under the Bombay
presidency 1844-53 13-22
41 Regarding certain bad characters confined in the Larkana jail  1855 163-172
42 Correspondence regarding a military department being stationed 1855 223-232
Regarding the men to be taken in preventing the act of suicide on the part of the
prisoners
45 1855 256-273
while in confinement
50 Circular  1853 12-309
50 On the subject of the testimony of tracker becomes very strong evidence of identity  1853 12
59 Petitions Shikarpoor collectorate  1851 83-298
59 Lunatic prisoners to be sent to the presidency asylum  1856 308-321
59 Returns of prisoners in the district Jail in Sind  1849 572
68 Rules for the horse & clothing funds of the Sind police corps 1855 173-233
1857-
69 Authorizing augmentation to the Sind police  352-263
1858
72 Retention of Jackranee horse for further period  1860 488-537
83 Reports from the Thannadar of Allayar's Tanda on the subject of a dispute which
occurred 1854 103-115
between some of Ameer Sher Mahomed's followers and the mounted Sowars stationed
 there 
93 Regarding a complaint made by Dr. Trumpp against the Fouzdar of Kurrachee  1855 234-255
93 Company's allowance to the adjutants of police in Sind  1860 581-598
96 On the subject of the testimony of tracker becomes very strong evidence of identity  1854 115-120
96 Regarding the convict Oomeid Ali widow Goolun Rinds case for shaving his head &
beard 1858 391-400
97 Instructions for the apprehension of the convicts who escaped from New Goa.  1860  538-556
Regarding the prisoners in certain cases sent with in 48 hours to the assistant
magistrate
100 1858 385-390
without the complainant 
101 On the subject of changes in the police department being reported to the magistrate  1855 274-307
102 On the subject of the mounted police lines, Hydrabad  1855  121-162
102 Regarding the prisoners imprisoned in default of security  1860 557-568
A return of the description relative to the irregular, local & police corps
in the civil
102 1858 401-467
department 
105 Regarding insolvent debtors 1859 468-475
Regarding pension granted to certain men of the Hydrabad police or those who died
in
107 1860 569-580
Nagar Parkar outbreak  
111 Letters written in red files  1847-48  286
120 Returns of criminal trial held in the province of Scinde 3 to 56
123 Repairs to police lines  1848 383-448
125 Proclamation relating nuisance committed within the town and suburbs of Kurrachee  1858 321-338
130 The Sudder towns placed under the jurisdiction of the lieutenants of police 1848 449-578
Relative to the re-establishment at Kurrachee of a court of arbitrators for disposal
of all
131 1859 476-487
disputes where in Caffilla merchants may be parties 
150 Fees to Cazees  1848 181- 210
Police department, Lieutenant E. Young Husband, acting lieutenant of police at Shikarpoor
157 1848 411-448
refuses to appear before a court of request 
176 Trial of Buhadoor Sing and Rugoonath Sing for murder  1848 153-180
Arif Khan Bahadoor native adjutant of the Sind police prohibited from receiving
land in
183 1847-48 579-604
Jagheer from H.H. Meer Ali Morad
193 Works of public utility  1841  486
Recovery of awards by a military court of request against members of the secretary's
198 1848 57-152
establishment 
247 Female suicide, reports by the several magistrates on the subject in Sind  1848 21-140
286 Administration of criminal justice  1849-51 1010
Hydrabad, trial of Mahmood and others for passing false coins  1848 20
Hydrabad, trial of Sooliman Shah Syud passing false coins  1848 449-474
Kurrachee colllectorate, dispute between the Muslemin of the town (Disputes)  1848 141-204
Investigation of accounts in the case of two government defaulters named Chubbildass
&
1853 23-102
Myaram. Kurrachee 
Military commission, proceedings in 14th trial  1848 410
Reports regarding how the matron during the past year has performed her duties 1858 233-264

Contents of the Files of Judicial Record from 1841 to 1860

Kurrachee District 1841

1. Traveler's bungalows at Kurrachee, Guah, Gujah and Tatta
2. Manora, convalescent
hospital, tank and wells
3. Road between Syedpoor and Lakpoor
4. Traveler's
bungalows, buildings at a total cash of Rs.600 along the line of route from Kurrachee
to Kotri
5. Minor works, collectors of districts authorized to spend annually
up to Rs.1000 on works of public utility such as dharmsallas, serias, wells and roads
6. Wells, grant of lands on favorable terms as to assessment of cultivators
who sink Pakka wells
7. Wells, rules for the digging of wells for irrigation
8. Minor works, return of the several authorities in Sind rested with poser to
extend sums on works of improvement of the districts
9. A sum of Rs.50,000
placed at the commissioners disposal for the execution of emergent works.

Noomryahs and his Family Members 1843

This file is about Noomryahs family (Mulk Ahmed Khan Noomryah, Mulk Sirdar Khan
widow of Sobdar Khan, Pahar Khan Noomryah, Sirdar Khan, Mulk Boola Khan Noomryah
Oonerpoor and
Jeyund Khan Noomryah etc).

Military Commission and Proceeding of Trial in 1844-46

1. Trial of Jaffer Chandia for murder
2. Trial of Zlanda Seedianee for aiding
and abetting in murdering a woman
3. Trial of Bhaye Khan Fukeer for murder of
a boy
4. Trial of Gean Buniah for murder of his daughter
5. Trial of Alladeen
for murder
6. Trial of Khanum and others for murder
7. Trial of Chundiram late
Kardar of Sehwan for embezzlement of Government property
8. Trial of Nujjuf Ali
late jemadar of police Hydrabad
9. Trial of Futteh Khan Nawul for murder
10. Trial of Nizzamuddin and Jumboora for robbery and assault
11. Trial of Bohawal
Luggaree for murder
12. Trial of Mittoo Shikaree
13. Trial of Maun Sing Jemadar
Nundeeram Monshee for reading false report and creating unnecessary alarm
14. Trial of Mussora Radhum, Mahmood Hussain and Bahadoor for murder
15. Trial of
Allah Rukhya for murder
16. Proceedings of the court of enquiry related to
the late discovery of treasury in the fort of Hydrabad.

Military Trials and Commission Upper Sind 1844 ,1848

1. Trial of Monshee Mahomed Ooner, head moonshee in the collector and magistrate
officer, Sukkur;
2. Trial of Uleem accused of having committed murder in the village
of Langursha
3. Report of the court of enquiry regarding the failure at Poolajee
with governors remarks on them
4. Trial of Yarroo Lugaree and Huddeeat Lugaree
for murder
5. Trial of Puryoo for murder
6. Trial of Punjoo, Hubeeb and Choohur
for robbery
7. Proceedings of a court of request
8. Trial of prisoners Allanda
and Gungul alias Khan Mahomed for robbery
9. Trial of Jamal Zurdaree for murder
10. Trial of Brijdoss late kardar of Shikarpoor for embezzlement of government money
11. Trial of Nubbee Bux Mullah for murder of his mother
12. Trial of Syuud
Buchal Shah for murder
13. Trial of Abdool Kadeem for murder.

Military Commission 1844-1848

1. Trial of Soochayt Sing, Duffadar of police for gross prevarication in having
given evidence at variance with a former statement made in the case of Souliman Variah
2. Mohun Singh survey of the corps robbing with force of arms the government
treasury at Larkana
3. Nobut and Mehrab Boardee inhabitants of Cuchee in the Khan
of Kelats territory murder
4. Sobdar Naiteh Fakeer inhabitant of Cuchee in the
Khan of Kelats territory, murder case
 5. Notha and Janjee, Skikarpoor, highway robbery
6. Sonah, Abrah, Skhikarpoor murder case
7. Moondoo Mooghalree, Larkana,
highway robbery
8. Kasim Mashoree, Larkana, murder case
9. Allah Bukhsh Khikarpur
Distric murder case
10. Purriah, Suckoo and Chalon, Larkana District , highway robbery
11. Police establishment
12. Management of police and administration
of civil and criminal justice in Sindh
13. Argumentation in the police force,
rural police, mounted police and city police
14. Uniformity of police in Sind
15. Proposal for employment of 100 Chandia Sowars
16. Appointment of native adjutant of police in Sind
17. Establishment police; (18) Puggeos or tracer for police, entertainment
18. Chandia horsemen employed in police
19. Muster rolls of camel
and police corps
20. Increase to the salary of Mr. Mackeson joint magistrate and
lieutenant of police
21. Increased salary to the Kotwal of Skikarpoor
22. Lieutenant
Young Husband appointment as lieutenant of police Shikarpur
23. Increase to the pay of city police at Hydrabad
24. Batta to the party of city police proceeded
to Bombay in charge of lieutenant
25. Trial of Zurdaree for murder.

Meer Ali Morad 1847-48

Alif Khan Bahadoor, native adjutant of the Sind police prohibited from receiving
land in Jagheer from H. H. Meer Ali Murad. The son of Alif Khan granted a Jagheer
by H. H. Meer Ali Morad
which he gave up.

False Coins 1848

Hydrabad

a.  Trial of Mahmood and others for passing false coins on April 29, 1848
b.  Trial of Sooliman Shah Syud passing false coins

Prisoners Returns Sind Jails 1849

1. Returns of prisoners in the district jails in Sind
2. Police miscellaneous papers
3. Kurrachee collectorate
4. Returns of prisoners in the district
jail.

Criminal Justice Administration 1849-51

1. Administration of criminal justice;
2. Judicial miscellanies papers
3. Regarding
Mr. Kinmerleys case
4. Appointment of police officers, disbursements on account
of and distribution returns of DCO (Photocopy not original).

Defaulters 1853
Investigation of accounts in the case of two government defaulters named Chubbildass
& Myaram Kurrachee April, 1853.

Ameers of Sind 1854

Reports from the thannadar of Allayar's Tanda on the subject of a dispute which
occurred between some of Ameer Sher Mahomed's followers and the mounted Sowars stationed
there.

Suicide 1855
1. Regarding a complaint made by Dr. Trumpp against the Faizdar of Kurrachee, regarding
the means to be taken in preventing the act of suicide on the part of the prisoners
while in
confinement
2. Regarding certain bad characters confined in the Larkana jail.

Jail Affairs in Sind 1859

1. Excess of Rs.1910 spent on the enlargement of the Shikarpur jail
2. Sanction
to an expenditure of fourteen annas for suit of a new jail dress for convicts in
the Shikarpoor jail
3. Diet of prisoners in the Mehur and Larkana jails
4. Statements
of receipts and disbursements of the factories in the jails of Sind
5. Execration
of capital sentence and transportation for life
6. Escape of prisoners from the
jails in Sind
7. Release of state prisoner Dajee Rao from the Kurrachee jail
8. Petition from Ismail Khan Kurmettee late Naib Jailer of Kurrachee for the restorations
of his appointment
9. Honor to be paid by a jail guard to the officer in charge
of a jail, regarding correspondence.

Police Miscellaneous 1859

1. Arrival and departure reports, and address of letters
2. Removal of the police
Thanna from Jam Ke Tanda, Meer Mahomed Khans complaint, and final dismissal of
Russuldar Khuzzan Shah and other Police Officers
3. Traveling allowance to Major
Marston while detained at Kurrachee as remount agent
4. Memo by Mr. Gibbs on the
Sind police (Sent to secretary to the chief commissioner Sind and Government)
5. Sowars to be placed at the disposal of the deputy post master Hydrabad for expression
for the commissioners camp Burkundaze to be employed at Kurrachee to admit of the
police
taking military guards
6. Measures taken by the police for the prevention
of disorder during the Hoolie festival
7. Desertion of Naique Shadee Khan and
sale of his horse
8. For correspondence regarding transfer of prisoners from the
Hydrabad to the Kurrachee jail
9. Filling up of the Foujdarship of Shikarpoor
10. Certain guards to be taken by the military department
11. Printed correspondence
of Madras police
12. Guards for the chief engineers office and police escort
for the chief engineer
13. Dockyard guard at Keamaree to be taken by the police
14. Three Sowars for government house
15. Major Marstons request to have the
order of 10 percent reduction on his contingent allowance cancelled
16. At the
request of the harbor deputy magistrate, the police ordered to strengthen the guard
at Keamaree and furnish a guard at Manora (also order for nauseating the police
from the
aid granted by the municipality)
17. Major Marston brings to notice the
increase of robberies in the Kurrachee town and requests that the city police be increased
18. Increase to the police guard at Khell
19. Duffadar Mair Shah
charged with bribery.

Police Establishment in Sind 1859

1.  Police returns furnished to government and Sind discontinued by order of government
2. Check on the half salary drawn by Lieutenant Gillespic as assistant of the Hydrabad
police & application to government for its removal
3. Gratuity of Rs.40 to
Naique Mudday Khan of the Hydrabad police
4. Compensation of Rs. 4, monthly each
to the Sowars of the Kurrachee mounted police
5. Removal of checks from the salaries
of the captain & lieutenant of police for February and March
6. Atkinson to
officiating as lieutenant of Hyderabad police during the temporary absence of Lieutenant Fraser
7. Carbines for the Kurrachee mounted police
8. 50 Burkundane for the
Hydrabad police
 9. Discharge of and gratuity of Rs. 100 Subedar Mahmoed Khan of
the Shikarpoor police
10. Burkundaze to be employed at Kurrachee to admit in the police taking military guards
11. Retention of the Shikarpoor Jackranee Horse
12. Mr. Hansens resignation (Jailor of Shikarpoor)
13. Conduct of a small party of police in the Thur and Parkur
14. Discharge and Gratuity to private Kallay
Khan of Upper Sind rural police
15. Statement of the strength and cost of the
Sind police since 1851
16. Statement of the cost and capital of the three jails
17. Discharge of and gratuity to Naique Tajaram, Naique Owsayree, private Rampirsad,
private Shair Khan
18. Discharge and gratuity to private Elahee Bukhsh of the
Shikarpoor police
19. Permanent police forced for the Thur and Parkar and disturbance
in Nuggar Parkkur
20. Bills of the Shikarpur Jackranee Horse returned by the
civil auditor for the heading of new levy to be changed to Jackranee Horse.

Caffilla Merchants 1859

Regarding insolvent debtors, relative to the reestablishment at Kurrachee of a court
of arbitrators for disposal of all disputes where in Caffilla Merchants may be parties.

General Record

General Record of the Commissioner Office from 1839-1856

1 General Miscellaneous  1859 702

1 Sind coal mines  1859-60 410
1 General Miscellaneous  1859  692
2 Petitions  1851 299-542
3 Electric telegraph  1859  462
5 School Kurrachee  1859 270
6 School Hyderabad 1859 271-318
7 Hydrabad collectorate Board of conservancy  1851 15-72
7 School Shikarpur  1859 319-492
14 Boat establishment, construction of boat  1851 543-664
17 Appointments and leave general  1859 100
17 Appointments and leave general  1860 64
18 Indents  1860 65-232
20 Books, Pamphlets and Maps 1860 233-704
21 Examinations in native languages  1860  705-818
23 Arts Sciences and Antiquities 1858-60 244
23 Buildings  1853 403
25 Municipalities  1859 599-912
25 Post  1849  59-401
28 Returns general  1859 312
30 Circulars political  1859 407-494
30 Circulars general  1859 313-406
33 Miscellaneous 1851 215-390
36 Census 1850 257
39 Marine  1847 426
44 Public works 1851 357
48 Medical vaccination, Bills  1860 496-582
49 Caves, temples and monuments  1851  73-146
52 Kurrachee Harbour 1845-1855 516
60 Indents 1847 520-573
61 Petitions Kurrachee collectorate  1851 36
66 Reports on the season 1853 66
Kurrachee collectorate, Board of conservancy  1851 3-276
67 Marine Miscellaneous  1850 59-428
82 Apothecaries attached to the collectors 1848 396-485
82 Marine department 1849 187-310
83 Census of all natives of Great Britain and Ireland residing in Sind  1851 305-356
84 Marine  1854 320
85 Bombay Miscellaneous  1847 588-617
92 Kurrachee, Shikarpur etc Collectorate-petitions  1847 922
94 Sind- population returns  1850-51 55-97
95 Khety Municipality  1852-57 414-622
101 Sind school establishment  1852  24
105 Miscellaneous  1840-47 946
106 An assistant apothecary stationed at Gorabaree 1845-1847 200
108 Superannuation pension granted to Ramneddee Mookerjee head writer in the Hyderabad
post office  1845-48 281-348
Mookerjee head writer in the Hyderabad post office  1845-48 281-348
112 Ecclesiastical department, death Mr. Lawrence, Roman Catholic priests in Sind 1847 574-587
Roman Catholic priests in Sind  1847  574-587
121 Public works  1851 465-528
139 Cantonments in Sind limits  1850 505-534
141 Sindhi dictionary and grammar (Languages)  1849  58
143 Employment of junior civil servants  1851 8
150 Miscellaneous 1851 54
152 Postal matters  1849-56 641
166 Roads in Sind  1852-54 474
175 Road leading to and Bunder at waghodur  1851 14
175 Shikarpoor collectorate Rahooja Bund 1845-46 201-280
179 Hyderabad collectorate-petitions  1851 37-82
180 Flotilla Indus  1850  343-358
185 Great Trignometrial survey, Extension of Sind  1850 18
195 Sind Road and ferry tolls in subsequent companies  1851 277-304
196 Civil hospital at Shikarpur  1851 147-214
214 Establishment  1839 767
238 Marine 1839-45 991
278 Survey, Extension of the great trignometrical survey in Sind  24 1848
survey in Sind 1848 24
330 Post offices in Sind, Bills and Accounts 1848 559
332 Shikarpoor collectorate, Boundary survey of the Roree district 1847 28
370 Roads in Sind 1852-60 25-222
iv Supply and Transport  1847 457
viii Military Miscellaneous 1839-46 413
viii Post offices in Sind  1849 146
Papers circulated and returned  1855-60 623-722
Cholera at Hyderabad & in the districts  1851 529-554
Post offices in Sind  1848 25-320
Public works  1851 98-239
Cantonments in Sind limits  1849 420-504
Survey 1849 402-419
Marine Miscellaneous 1848-49 349-434
Ecclesiastical  1849 147-56

Contents of the Files of General Record from 1839 to 1860

Establishment 1839
1. Establishment of Belooch levy and their movement
2. Establish of Boolan rangers
and their reorganization
3. Enlistment of Arabs for service on Sind
4. Salary to political agent Shawal
5. Establishment to political agent Quetta
6. Establishment for the political agent lower Sind
7.  Seth Nao Mulls services to the British government
8. Establishment for packet boat between Kurrachee and Sukkur
9. Discontinuance of drawing Batta white stationary and question of increase salary
Mr. Surtees head clerk.

Marine 1839-45, 1847, 1850, 1854

1.  Regulation and rates of charges for accommodation of passengers and conveyance
of goods on the government steam boat on the Ganges and Indus
2. Orders regarding
sunglass for vessels entering Kurrachee harbour
3. Harbour masters department
4. Relating to the ferry boats at Kotree
5. Accounts of the boat department of
Sukkur, Kotree and Hydrabad
6. Relating to the employment of the steamer of the
Indus Flotilla, for mercantile purpose
7. Loss of a boat, purchased for the engineer
department, Kurrachee
8. Relating to the issuing of mutton to the Indus Flotilla,
by Commissariat

1. Steam communication with Mooltan

2. Fuel for river steamers from the forests
3. Slip or floating Dock
for the repair of vessels of the Indus flotilla
4. Allotment of tonnage on steamers
between Kurrachee, Mooltan, Complaint by deputy collector custom
5. Statement
called for the total period in each year during which the flotilla has been deprived
of the flats owing to their having been sent to Bombay for repairs.

1. Navigation of the Indus under L.T.S.H. Wood

2. Return of boats
3. Fuels
for steamer between Sukkur & Ferozpur
4. Steam communication between Kurrachee and Bombay
5. Opinion expressed by Lieutenant Jardine Jacob and Dr. Winchester
on the subject of improving the steamer on the Indus
6. Survey of the Narra by
steamer Metior, resulting in the cutting of a bund to compensate a loss of Rupees
15,000 sustained by the Ameers of Hydrabad also navigation of Arrel, Narra
and Munchur Lake
7. Statement of pay allowance of the several naval establishment and regulation
under which engineers and other apprentices are serving
8. Captain Ball claim
for the allowance of duties performed by him superintendent of boat department
9. Rules regulation and scale of passage, money by Commander Charles for passengers
and packages conveyed by the vessels of the flotilla
10. Navigation of the Sutleg,
report of the voyage of the steamers Meanee, Napier to Ferozpur and other vessels
11. Increase to the salary of fuel agents at several stations
12. Engineers for
steamers of the Indus flotilla
13. Proposed coal depot at Kurrachee
14. Coal,
seed, godown at Kotri and workshop
15. Repairs to steam vessels the Indus
16. Purchase of certain buildings at Sukkur for store rooms
17. Bridge of boats or
Pantoon train for river Indus
18. Fitting up a boat as a Dredge
19. Seats of
Sawyers for Indus steam flotilla
20. Passage charges, allowances for civil and
military functionaries when on board the EIC's ships
21. Native vessels trading
from Bombay, Cutch of Zanzibar and other ports on the coast of Africa carrying British
colours without permission
22. Supply required for the Indus steam flotilla department from Bombay
23. System of Indus flotilla payment and proposal for the appointment
of a paymaster.

Miscellaneous General 1840-47

1. In these files fees to Cazees
2. Sind camel corps transferred to the Bengal
presidency file of 1850
3. Report on the general revenue of miscellaneous subject
4. Return of public buildings constructed in Scinde since the acquisition of the province
5. Extract of income and expenditure of the government garden in Scinde
6. Correspondence regarding the breed of leeches and change of food in the European
hospitals in Scinde
7. Civil justice
8. Replies to queries on the trade and
manufactures of Scinde
9. River and sea borne trade
10. Criminal justice, police
11. List of the officers and establishments of the Hyderabad collectorate
12. Detailed list of canals in the district of Upper Scinde
13. List of criminal cases
decided in the collectorate of Kurrachee during the year 1840
14. Memorandum on
the duties on fish as levied at Kurrachee
15. Pearl Banks and Fisheries
16. Instruction to deputy collectors of Hyderabad regarding the collection of grain
revenue in the collectorate
17. System of canal clearance pursued under the British government
18. Report on police by judge advocate general
19. Report on the
commission of crime by Captain Anderson
20. Deputy judge advocate of Hydrabad,
replies to questions regarding the revenue of the Kurrachee collectorate
21. Extract of circular letters from the collector and magistrate of Kurrachee to the
deputy director collectors dated August 30, 1844 and memorandum of the chiefs and
men of
importance residing in the Kurrachee collectorate.

Apothecary at Gorabaree 1845-47

In both files the information about an assistant apothecary stationed at Gorabaree
at Sehwan are given who was attached to the collector.

Harbour Kurrachee 1845-55

1. Bar at the entrance of the Kurrachee harbour
2. Pilotage
3. Arrangements
for the pilotage of boats in the Kurrachee harbour
4. Survey of the Kurrachee
harbour by Lt. Grieve I. N commanding the Brig. Enphrates
5. Harbour masters department abolition of 1849-1850
6. Kurrachee harbour 1850
7. Entrance into Lenoyed
8. Harbour masters department bills and
9. Dredging machine for the
Kurrachee harbour.

I d 1847
Indents 1847
1. Stationery miscellaneous commissioners office
2. Deputy collector of customs Kurrachee
3. Jageer department
4. Collector of Kurrachee
5. Indent on commissariat
department for certain articles required for government house
6. Political superintendent
U.S. frontier meteorological instruments
7. Collector of Shikarpoor
8. Educational inspector
9. Port officer Kurrachee
10. Collector of Hydrabad
11. Postal
department.

Supply and Transport 1847

1. Grain for the commissariat department
2. Embarkation of her Majestys 86 regiment
at Kurrachee
3. Exorbitant rate charged by the commissariat officer
4. Hydrabad
to the ordnance department for yellow Ochre
5. Reduction of dolly bearers in Scinde,
Scinde camel corps
6. Regarding to charges on account of grain the Torage supplied
to the camel of the baggage corps
7. Camel baggage corps
8. Regarding Mr. Assistant
Surgeon Youngs allowances
9. Papers alluded to in Sir. Charles Napiers last
confidential report (Military Dept.)
10. Dispatch from Bombay of 600 water casts
to the commissariat department
11. Camel baggage corps
12. Camels belonging
to Lieutenant Lawrence
13. Camel belonging to Mr. Lawrence late local lieutenant
Sind camel baggage corps seized by the government
14. Shikarpoor collectorate,
road between Sukkur & Shikarpur.

Kurrachee, Shikarpoor Collectorate 1847, 1851

1. Kurrachee petitions
2. Khyrpore, sanction for the erection of a house for the resident
3. Shikarpoor collectorate petitions
4. Hydrabad collectorate
5. Halla, deputy collectors Bungalow
6. Public works relating to the river bank
at Kotree
7. Kurrachee collectorate regarding non-interface in the town of Kurrachee
8. The post office at Kurrachee and the building made over to the superintendent of
canals at Hydrabad
9. Canal and forest department relating to the Shikarpoor.

Ecclesiastical 1847-49
Death of Mr. Lawrence Minezes Roman Catholic priests in Sind, appointment of European
Clergyman Mr. Joseph.

Post Office and Postal Matters 1848-56

1. Superannuation pension granted to Ramneddee Mookerjee head writer in the Hydrabad
post office
2. Extension of the great trigonometrically survey into Scinde
3. post offices in Scinde
4. Bills and accounts
5. Agreement made by the Bombay
steam navigation company for the mails between Bombay and Kurrachee in 1849
6. Experimental lack between Hydrabad and Kurrachee between Tatta and Bhuj
7. Hydrabad and Sukkur, Sukkur and Shikarpoor
8. Transfer of the Scinde post offices to the
control of the post master general Bombay
9. Mr. Coffeys report of his annual
tour for 1854/55.

Cantonments Limits 1849-50

Limit of all cantonments in Scinde required by government for notification.

Census 1850-51
1. Orders for the taking of a periodical census in Sind
2. Population of Sind in 1851
3. Population of Sind in 1852
4. General instructions for census in 1856
5. Census of all natives of Great Britain and Ireland residing in Sind on
March 31, 1851.

Caves, Temples and Monuments 1851

Caves, temples and monuments of antiquities, search to be made in Sind.

Building 1853
1. Shikarpoor district: Collector's Kurrachee at Shikarpur
2. Sukkur District.
Military buildings in Sukkur fort of Bukker
3. Residency at Shikarpoor
4. Arsenals
fort of Bukkur
5. Staging bungalows rules
6.  The Sukkur residency

Roads in Sind 1851-56

1. Construction of a road from Kurrachee to Kotri in 1852, Construction a road
from Hydrabad to Subzul Cote in 1855
2. Larkana to Shikarpoor road in 1852
3. Sukkur to Shikarpoor road in 1852
4. Thar and Parkar district road in 1853, Upper Sind Frontier
5. Kurrachee to the frontier
6. Bunder road Kurrachee, roads at Kotree
7. Kurrachee to Kotree, Lukkey pass and report on roads construction by
Maj. J. Jacob in the Upper Sind Frontier in 1853
8. Embanking the road between
Gholam Hyder Ka Tenda and Tulhar
9. New road from Shahpoor to Sanghur. Ditto from
Mukooda Sind to join the postal road near Suvair Khan Talpoors village
10. Road
between Nuseerpoor and Qoderalal
11. Reference from the chief engineer in Sind
regarding the line of road between Hydrabad and Kotree on H. H. Meer Ali Moorads
frontier and requesting to be informed for the authority
on which the time is being
proceeded with by the deputy collector of Nowsherah. Rs.400 sanctioned for a line
of road from Brahminabad to Kippra. Rs.1200 sanctioned for metalling
road in the
vicinity of Hydrabad
12. Extension of the river and Bellasis road and planting
trees along it and compensation to owners of houses removed to make way for the road
13. The charge for the road that runs from the residence of near Mahomed
Khan Talpoor near the entranced camp at Hydrabad along the river face to the Bunder
road made over to the
near and half the proceeds of the Feray Sind placed at his disposal
14. The inspecting post master in Sind brings to notice the bad state
of the road from Hydrabad to Chang
15. Clearing road from Islamkote to the
boundary of Chaokree and form Islamkote to Deepla.

Education in Sind 1852

1. Appointment of Moonshee Pribdass as assistant school master to the English school
at Hydrabad
 2. Committee for the supervision of education
3. Mathlee school
and petition from the school master at Alyar Ka Tanda
4. Grant of Rs 400 for the
purchase of furniture for the European and Indo European school at Kurrachee and
continuance for another year of the monthly subscription of Rs. 100 on the
part
of government
5. Assistant master for the vernacular school at Sehwan
6. European and Indo European school
7. Closing of the English at Kotree
8. School house for the Roman Catholic Children
9. School at Mugribee, English school at Tatta
10. Application for special sanction to the establishment of the Kurrachee English
school and the normal class are included and these information are taken from the
office of the
educational inspector in Sind
11. Rules for regulating the fees
for the English school at Sukkur
12. School at Shikarpoor, Larkhana
13. Rutta
Derah and Buckrana schools
14. Appointment of Mahomed Shuraf as assistant teacher
in the vernacular school at Shikarpoor
15. Engineering instruments for the use
of the English school at Sukkur
16. Traveling expenses to Mr. Chaintaman Sakharam
English school master at Sukkur
17. Report regarding how the matron during the past year has performed her duties
18. Scinde dictionary and grammar complied
by Lieutenant Stack.

Arts Sciences and Antiquities 1858-60

1. Expenses incurred in excavating the ruins Mukan Ke Thool
2. Bills of expenses
for farming certificates of merit awarded by the exposition universally to persons
in Sind
3. Organizing of local committees in Sind with a view to promote the success
of the central museum at Bombay
4. The forest ranger in Sind requested to collect
a complete set of specimens to the vegetable products of Sind both raw and manufactured
for the Royal Museum
5. The captain of police requested to furnish two complete
sets of specimens of articles manufactured in each of the Kails
6. Punjab produce,
Mr. Cope as agent for the Kurrachee and Bombay museums
7. Specimen of the Lyneah Valley
8. Large glass fronted cases for the Kurrachee Museum
9. Dr. Bird Wood
acknowledges receipt of specimens from the Lyneah Valley and requests specimens
of the woods of Sind of Hydrabad embroidered and lacquered ware
10. Hydrabad lacquered ware
11. Coral for the Kurrrachee Museum 
12. Miscellaneous, Hail Storm etc.

Circulars General and Political 1859

1. Political officers in charge of lapsed and attached lands to furnish statement
similar to those rendered by the collectors
2. Directions against making public
any official document whether printed or not
3. Name of persons dismissed and
period of service to be shown in returns of stipendiary officers drawing, more than
10 rupees
4. Political officers directed to account regularly for all sums of
money from whatever source derived which came into their hands or under their controls
5. I. D Inverarity Esquire commissioner in Sind arrival announced to the chiefs
in the province
6. Arabs The practice of government officers offering appointments
to members of another establishment without consulting the officers under whom they
are serving discouraged
7. Ancient buildings on ruins not to be disturbed without permission
8. Controlling officers to record their opinion of their subordinates
on quitting office
9. Service telegraphs messages to be condensed
10. Anundrow
Rugoonath Jee readmitted in government employ
11. Office waste paper to be soaked
in water and afterwards sold
12. Reduction to be made in the quantity of official correspondence in Sind
13. What papers should be sent under cover to the address
of the assistant commissioner
14. Proscribed public servants
15. Treatment of
mutineers and rebels who may surrender themselves subsequently to the January 01,
1859 and has been taken advantages by mutineers, deserters and rebels
16. Annual statement of fines levied by Sind police to be forwarded direct to the civil
auditor in future.

General Miscellaneous 1859

1. Fares for public conveyances in Kurrachee
2. Captain H.G. Ravertys dictionary
and text book of the Afghan language
3. Proposed amalgamation of the two libraries
at Kurrachee
4. Information relative to area and population of Sind for Mr. Bettington
5. The detention of Dr. Steadwan in the commissioners camp owing to the illness
of a patient
6. Route from Kippra to Jeysulmeer
7. Route from Jeysulmeer to Bikaneer
8. Route from Bikaneer to Khanpoor
9. Route from Khanpoor to Nuggur Parkur
10. Reports of the Kurrachee benevolent society the erection of a Dhurrumsalla
at Muggur Peer
11. Paper parchment for government offices
12. The Moonsiff of
Sukkur to examine the commissariat chest monthly
13. Domestic ceremonies of the
Sind and people of Tatta curtailed
14. Piracy or Barratry committed in table Bay
15. Congratulations and fare well letters to Sir Bartle Frere from Jewanram Dewane
Chund. From Chintamun Sukkaram and others of the English School Sukkur
16. Slabs
from the new quarry near Roce and Jeysulmeer for lithographic purposes
17. Macleod
memorial fund
18. Vernacular papers placed at the disposal of the paper
19. Curator central museum Bombay requests to be furnished with a series of all the
foreign articles obtaining a ready market among the natives of Sind
20. Moonshee
Mooklis Ali editor of the Moofurra-ul-Kuloob asks for official advertisement and paper
21. Prospectus of the Madras school of industry
22. Proclamation for the
celebration of a solemn thanks giving for the restoration of peace and tranquility
in India and part taken by the inhabitants of Sind
23. Ten copies of a Sindee
translation of Her Majestys proclamation forwarded to the secretary to the government
of India
24. Reports of two outrages committed by the men of the Belooch regiment
and crew of the planet, Mittree station
25. Assault by crew of Lawrence Dubtlee
Vichola Bunder
26. Assault by crew of the steamer Indus seta Bunder
27. Non
payment for supplies by troops S.V Lawrence, Khaiee station
28. Complaints against
river Cotwalls
29. Establishment of a, Victoria museum and gardens in Bombay
30. Puttora fair held between Meerpoor and Oomercote
31. Resignation by Sir Bartle
Frere office of chairman to the Kurrachee General Library
32. Mr. W.H. Mc Donald
applying for the acting appointment of deputy collector of customs
33. Mr.
Restomjee Byramjee Bantras scheme for raising new taxes.

Municipalities 1859
1. Fixing municipal limits
2.  Anonymous complaint against the Fouzdar of Kurrachee
and members of the Kurrachee municipality
3. Dr. W. Niven appointed member of
the Kotree municipal commissioner and Jeevirt Bunya & Khujal Iregoon to the
Janghar municipal commissioner
4. Municipal receipts and disbursement for 1859
5. Lighting the camp bazaar and town with gas
6. List of the Kurrachee municipal
commissioners and additional appointment of member file 25/60
7. Annual report
and accounts of the Tatta & Jerruck municipalities for the years 1857/58 &
1858 /59
8. Appointment of three municipal commissioners for the town of Sehwan
in the place of those deceased.

Electric Telegraph 1859

1. Telegraph office at Taroo Shah in the Nowshera districts
2. Discontinuance
of Mr. Hower's contingent allowance on accounts of electric telegraph stores
3. State of the telegraph posts on the Hydrabad and Kotree line
4. Lieutenant P.Z.M
completes the electric telegraph line from Kotree in H.H. Meer Ali Morad's territory
to Shawallee
5. Red Sea and Indian telegraph
6. Miss conduct of subordinates
and correspondence on the subject with government and Sir W.O. Shanghuessy
7. Defaulting signalers threatened to be sent to Sind as to a penal province by Sir
W.O. Shanghuessy correspondence with government & Sir W.O Shanghuessy
8. Unsatisfactory
working of the telegraph between Kurrachee and Jacobabad Telegraph
office at Hydrabad
9. Mr. Smith's complaint of heavy charges for the conveyance of electric
telegraph poles in the Mahomed Khan's Tanda district
10. Mr. Nelson's report on the state of the line from Hydrabad to Nuggur Parkar
11. Mr. Smith's departure,
Mr. Nelson placed in charge of telegraph office
12. Mr. Nelson's resignation
 13. Appointment of Captain Magrath as deputy superintendent of electric telegraphs
Sind and Punjab levies
14. Discontinuance of horse patrols on the electric telegraph
line between Kurrachee and Hydrabad, Hydrabad & Bedeen and Mohmbra and Deesa
15. Proposed abolition of telegraph offices at Keamaree and Ghizree.

Return General 1859

1.  Half yearly civil lists
2. Half yearly returns of Europeans tea employed in
a civil
3. Military or medical capacity under native states
4. Quarterly return
showing the manner in which the assistants to the commissioner in Sind are employed
5. Annual statement of fines levied by the Sind police for 1858/59
6. List of all periodical returns & a furnished by the collectors in Sind
7. Returns
of sums expended on account of charges for printing forms and other papers during
the year 1859
8. List of all persons drawing 50 Rs. and upwards on the establishment
of the collector of Kurrachee and recommended for promotion.

Appointment and Leave General 1859-60

 In these files the appointments and leaves of different officers are included

1. Appointment of justices of the peace

2. Departure for England of Brigadier
General G. Lawrence and appointment of Major Eden to the Rajpootana Agency
3. Appointment of Meer Wulleedad Khan Talpur as extra assistant collector and magistrate
4. Appointment of Captain Nixon to the Koudhpoor political agency and Serohi political
superintendence instead of Captain J. C. Brook
5. Report of Sir Bartle Frere K.C.B
and J.D Inverarity Esqure having respectively delivered over and received charge
of the office of commissioner in Sind
6. Service of Captain L. Pelly placed at
the disposal of the secretary of state for employment under H. Ms envoy in Persia
7. Lieutenant W. Dickinson, appointed to act as assistant political superintendent
U.S Frontier during absence of Captain Briggs
8. Commander A. MacDonald, appointed
superintendent of the Indus flotilla and superintendent of boats vice Captain Daniell
9. Captain G. B. Tyrwhitt leave
10. Assistant surgeon Asher's appointment as
acting civil surgeon at Hydrabad
11. Captain W.C Brigadier resumption of office
of assistant political superintendent U.S Frontier
12. Assistant surgeon H. Cooke
/ Khelat agency / leave granted and
13. Major Malcolm, deputy consulting engineer
Sind railway deputed to Bombay on duty.

Canals and Irrigation 1859-60

1. This file is about the general estimates for canal clearance
2. Rules
3. Difference between the superintendent of canals and chief engineer authority
4. Abolition of certain officers and recommendation to commerce the canals from Roree
to Hydrabad
5. Canals clearance estimates for 1860/61
6. Establishment for water gauges
7. Reduction of canals department by His Excellency Governor on public
works and report by committee and circulation about the assimilation of canal clearance
in the financial year
harvests and installments vide file 22 of 1860/61.

Sind Coal Mines 1859-60

1.  The coal mines leased to the Sind railway commissioner
2. Temporary discontinuance of coal being supplied to the Indus flotilla
3. Compensation
to widow of a Miver who accidentally lost his life at the Lyneeah colliery
4. Progress at the Miver & Mr. Inmans employment under the collector
5. Mr. Inman allowed to reside at Kurrachee
6. Discovery of a seam of coal by Beloochees
in the hills of Runny Ke Cote
7. Report By Mr. Inman of smoke having been seen
issuing from the shaft of the coal mine on the morning of the 25 instant
8. Return of the number of collieries and amount of coal roused in Sind

Books, Pamphlets and Maps 1860

1. Bombay, Bengal, Madras and Punjab selections
2. Punjabee almanac for 1860
3. Books supplied to educational inspector and commissioners office
4. Maps and plans
5. Books in the Urdu and Persian characters received
from Calcutta
6. Hindustani version of Mr. Wilsons speech on the financial pressure
in India
7. Publication of a book entitled Majmooa Mufied by Moonshee Nizamoodeen
of Poona.

Examinations in Native Languages 1860

1. Rewards for passing in Sindee not applicable
to civil servants
2. Examination of Mr. Burra C.S /deputy collector in colloquial Sindee
3. Lieutenant Gambier, public works department in Sindee
4. Captain Henderson,
lieutenant of police Shikarpoor, Sindee interpreters examination
5. Messrs W.A.
Ingle and F. Morris
6. Settlement department Kurrachee Sindee and interpreters
examination and Mr. G.B Coulson C.S in colloquial Sindee.

Medical Vaccination, Bills 1860

In this file bills, abstracts, vaccination report
for the year 1859 and employment of local vaccinator in district towns to be paid
from local funds are included.

Military Record
Military Record of the Commissioner Office from 1847-60

File Subject and Contents Year Pages

1 Mutiny of Bengal Army 1857 407

16 Land Property belonging to the convict Von Geyer 1851 391-4436

30 Military Miscellaneous 1849 363-576

33 Supply and Transport 1850 11-18

34 Cantonments Kurrachee, Hyderabad Cantonment 1852 510

34 Miscellaneous Military 1850 19-170

39 Marine Miscellaneous 1860 262

39 Marine Miscellaneous 1859 325

39 Marine Miscellaneous 1859 628

39 Marine Miscellaneous 1860 478

43 Sind canal corps transferred to the Bengal presidency 1850 253-298

45 European discharged soldiers & individuals and five expired men 1859-60 723-856

45 Military Miscellaneous 1860 254

47 Medical Miscellaneous 1860 255-495

71 Ordnance, Flint Fuzils and muskets in the Arsenals 1847 205-236

86 Military Miscellaneous 1847 29-204

91 Military Public works 1849 311-362

Destruction of some boats at Mandavie at the time the 16th
115 1847 372-453
Regiment Native
Two Nishan burdars of the second regiment Scinde horse accused
124 1848 321-395
of having committed
a murder many years since in Burdoan
127 Cantonment in Sind Limits fixed 1851 437-504
156 Camel belonging to Mr. Lawrence Late local Lieutenant Sind  1850 299-342
178 Sind Troops relief 1850 171-252
205 General orders 1846 3-446
205 Supply and Transport 1851 49-56
Scinde camel corps   1847 237-250
 Military, Cutch relating to the ruinous state    Sir Wm. Cotton
takes,
1847 251-299
the command of the Bombay army 
Government of Bombay Sir T. Mc Mahon proceeds to England, 1847 300-371
Government of India relating to the propriety of women & children
1847 454-519
accompanying
Native regiments

Contents of the Files of Military Record from 1846 to 1860

General Orders 1846
General
orders, by his Excellency Major General Sir C. J. Napier G. C. B. commanding the
forces in Scinde.

Sir T. Mc Mahon and Sir Wm. Cotton in Bombay Army 1847

Government of Bombay Sir T. Mc. Mohan proceeds to England; Sir Wm. Cotton takes
the command of the Bombay Army. Government of India relating to the propriety of
women and children:
accompanying native regiments and the regular payment of remittances
from soldiers on foreign services to their families.

Military Miscellaneous 1847 and 1860

1. Correspondence regarding requisitions and
reception of Mall Liquor required for European troops
2. Steamer Hugh Lindsay
placed at the disposal of Sir William Monsfield
3. Departure report of Brigadier
General Hale on being relieved of the Sind divisional command and other minor matters
4. Application for civil officers to examine and report on condition of commissariat
stores at Sukkur
5. Application from Corporal Ryland, Surveyor Jageer department
for his discharge from the Army
6. Appointment of his Excellency Lt. General Sir
William Mansfield K.E.B. as commander in chief of Bombay army
7. Fatigue parties
from European regiments for deceased seamen at Kurrachee
8. Contrasted statement
showing strength of the Sind police in 1847 and 1860
9. Arrangements for the reception
at Kurrachee and onward progress to Mooltan of the families of soldiers shortly
expected from England by the star of the south
10. Volunteer Rifle corps organized
at Kurrachee
11. Major Golds appointment as commandant, Mr. Deyells appointment
as Captain of No.3 company, Merrs Brunton & Warrens appointed as captain &
lieutenant of a company and
indents for certain articles from the advance stores
12. Dispatch of the 8th Punjab infantry from China to Kurrachee, on return from
field service
13. Pedals for European troops at Kurrachee; (n) Return of the first
grenadier regiment from service
14. Proposal from the military authorities
for the reduction of Puekaul camels employed with the frontiers field force at Jacobabad.

Supply and Transport 1851

a. Invalids of her Majestys service sent by water from
Ferozepur to Bombay and Sind camel corps transfer to the Bengal presidency.

Cantonment in Sind 1851-52

1.  Alteration in the limits of and correspondence relating
to the right of civil officers to reside in Kurrachee,
2.  Boundaries of the cantonment
limits of Kurrachee
3. Hyderabad cantonment demarcation of the limits
4. Sukkur
cantonment and transfer of the Sadar bazaar from the cantonment to the civil authorities
and consequent charges
5. Larkana cantonment and compensation granted to owners
of land for the handling over of the Larkana fort to the civil authorities
6. Conversion of fort Fitz Gerald into accommodation for the Kardar of Larkana.

Mutiny of Bungal Army 1857

1. Transfer of third troops to Bombay the fourth troop
H.A. sent instead
2. Tonnage to Mandavue
3. Collection of carriage
4. Horses required for military purposes
5. Formation of a new battery for field
service.

Medical Miscellaneous 1860

1. Withdrawal of assistant surgeon Mott from Jacobabad
to Shikarpur and grant of additional allowances to that officer
2. Application from Mr. Ramsay apothecary commissioners establishment for increase
allowances
3. Proposed employment of Mukdoom Noor Mahomed of Boobue as native vaccinator and
dispenser of fever medicines
4. Hospital assistant temporarily detached for duty
at the Buddeen telegraph office
5. Annual medical report of the Hyderabad collectorate for 1859 / 60
6. Prevalence of cholera at Khetty, Keamaree, Kurrachee, Sukkur
and Roree
7. Leave to Mr. Ramsay, apothecary commissioners establishment.

 Public Works Record

Public Works Record of the Commissioner Office from 1857 to

1860
File Subject and Contents Year Pages

Canals and Bunds

67 1860-61 442
General

69 Canals and Bunds 1859-60 773

73 Public works General 1859-60 1160

Public works
73 1859 184
Miscellaneous

Public works Hyderabad

75 solitary cell at Meerpoor 1859-60 647
etc

Public works Shikarpoor

76 1859-60 764
& Frontier

80 Returns 1859-60 292

80 Returns 1859-60 528

81 Public works 1859-60 68-91

82 Public works Kurrachee 1859-60 92-371

Public works Roads

83 1859-60 372-587
Hyderabad

Public works roads

84 1859-60 588-809
Shikarpoor and Frontier

Kurrachee water
107 supplies, 1857-62 27-328
correspondence

Contents of the Files of Public Works Record from 1857 to 1860

Kurrachee Water
Supplies, Correspondence 1857-62
Correspondence from 1857 to 1862 containing correspondence
on several schemes for supplying Kurrachee with water.

Public Works 1859

1. The
Chief Engineer in Sind submits a list of roads in Sind that will be taken charge
for repair by the executive engineer from first May
2. The chief engineer enquiries
whether the correspondence placing certain portions of the trunk roads under the
executive engineer has been communicated to the revenue officers and
on the subject
of repairs to district roads in Sind from Tatta to Jerruck to Mirpoor.

Public Works
Kurrachee 1859-60
1.  An advance of Rs. 10,000 sanctioned for the repair of the
civil and military roads at Kurrachee
2.  Raising of the Tatta roads and completing
the bund in the Dubbrin forest near Shaik Taroo. (Talooka Jerruck)
3. Culverts
on the Kurrachee and Tatta roads
4. Repair to the road from Kotree to Durwat
5. Tramway across the Muleer at Jemadar Ke Landee
6. New roads at Kotree
7. State of the road between Jim Peer & Jerruck
8. Road from Veron towards the
Indus in the direction of Sunn & Lukkee
9. Construction of road way from the
high water mark at Keamaree to the eastern limit pillar of the railway terminus
10. Representation from captain Phillips deputy collector Sehwan regarding the state
of the road between Kurrachee and Tatta
11. Repairs to the Meanee road at
Kotree at the joint expense of government and the local funds
12. Improvement
of the high road near the Bharun river; and (13) Raising, rolling, metalling and
gravelling two roads at Kotree leading from the town bund to the market square and
Edgah.

Public Works Roads Hyderabad 1859-60

1. Improvement of the continuation
of Bellasis road from the foot of the incline to the fort
2. Sanction of Rs.400
for side paths to Bellasis road
3. Do, Rs.310 for improving the slope to Cowra
Jemadars Charee
4. Do, Rs. 300 for completing the Dhurmsalla at Halla  
5. Road from Gotana to the Indus
6. Road from Meerpoor to the boundary of Shahdadpoor
7. Clearance of a road between Adam Ke Tanda and Gotana
8. Embanking the road
between Gholan Hyder Ka Tenda and Tulhar
9. New road from Shahpoor to Sanghur,
Ditto from Mukooda Sind to join the postal road near Suvair Khan Talpoors village
10. Road between Nuseerpoor and Qoderal
11. Reference from the chief engineer
in Sind regarding the line of road between Hyderabad and Kotree on H. H. Meer Ali
Moorads frontier and requesting to be informed for the authority
on which the time
is being proceeded with by the deputy collector of Nowsherah
12. Rs.400 sanctioned
for a line of road from Brahminabad to Kippra
13. Rs.1200 sanctioned for metalling
road in the vicinity of Hyderabad
14. Extension of the river and Bellasis road
and planting trees along it and compensation to owners of houses removed to make
way for the road
15. The charge for the road that runs from the residence of near
Mahomed Khan Talpoor near, the entranced camp at Hyderabad along the river face
to the Bunder road made over to the
near and half the proceeds of the Feray Sindh
16. The inspecting post master in Sind brings to notice the bad state of the road
from Hyderabad to change
17. Clearing road from Islamkote to the boundary of Chaokree
and form Islamkote to Deepla
18. Police lines at Mahomed Khans Tanda embank
out of road to Tulhar.

Public Works Roads Shikarpoor and Frontier 1859-60

1. Emergent repairs to the Sukkur
and Shikarpoor road also state of Ditto
2. Improvement of the road, between Larkana, Kumber & Kumber and Nusseerabad
3. Raising the road leading from the Lukkee
gate and joining the same to the Shair Bagh road and other lines of communication
in the city of Shikarpoor
4. Rs.170 sanctioned for making possible two rocky ascents
in the road, from Boda to Schuyun and from Oomerpoor to Lynean
5. Watering the
roads near Larkana on Captain Fifes plan for watering roads in Sind
6. Roads
from the bridges over Biggaria at Hourejah & Sukkur to Jagun being 14 miles
7. Metalling the road round the Hujaree, learning and leveling the two lines of
road from the same, running in the directions of Jacobabad and Sukur
8. Widening
and embanking the road. Connecting the Shikarpoor city with the cantonment
9. Construction of a new road from the Rafoderah bunder in the Mehur district to join
the Schwar as grand trunk road
10. Construction of a road in the line of road from Shikarpoor to the cantonment of
Sukkur
11. New roads in the Mehur district also sanction of Rs.100 for an approach to the town
of Mehur from the high road leading to Sehwan
12. Proposal to raise the road between the Nowshera and Kurrum
gates of Shikarpoor
13. Raising portions of the high road leading from Larkana
to Kumber, from Larkana to Nasseerabad and from Ruttaberah to Kumber
14. Raising the Larkana road between the Futtehpoor and Larkana
 15. Repairing the Sehwan road
between the two portion of the Rookur bund
16. Classification of roads and
their protection from injury.

Public Works General 1859-60

1. Principles to regulate sanction for emergent on
earthquake
2. Reports on earthquake
3. Koombart grant road
4. River encroachment
above the railway terminus at Kotree
5. Civil engineers for service in the canal
department in Sind
6. Rewards for manual on road and bridge making
7. Government house Kurrachee
8. Plans for Dawk bungalows, for the first and second class roads
9. Barracks material received from England
10. Sawing machinery
11. Public
works code for the collector of Hydrabad and Kurrachee
12. Iron framed barracks
correspondence regarding
13. Brick making machine sold to Sind railway company
14. Returns from irrigational works in Sind also water gauges (report to government)
15. Colonel Cottons letter on the improvement of Indus and harbour of Kurrachee
16. Telegraph offices at Kushmore and Tarooshah
17. Junior appointments in the
public works department in India
18. Nussurpoor glazed files for public buildings
19. Mr. James Collins a civil engineer solicits employment
20. Iron road rollers
21. Remedies against white ants
22. Want of water in desert districts in Sind for the people and cattle in Jeysulmere
23. Charge of travelers bungalows transferred
to public works department, improved accommodation at Kurrachee and Kotree
24. Model water mills
25. Annual report of public works in Sind for 1859-60 with
statement of entire expenditures

Canals and Bunds 1859-60

1. The Surfrazwah
2. Mr. Beattys report on the canals
of the Hydrabad collector for the year 1857-59
3. Sanctions of Rs.3000 for erecting
a fence to assist in fixing the sand on the Surfrazwah & Kosana canals
4. Canal clearances for the year 1859, also bridges over canals
5. Re measurement
of the Surfrazwah clearances
6. Canal clearances at the tail of the Surfrazwah
7. Modification in the proposal channel through ridge in the bed of the Nasra below
the village of Kipra
8. Proposed improvement of the Jamrow sang
9. Construction
of second bunds around a portion of the town of Sanhur
10. Application from the
deputy collector of Mahomed Khans Tanda to expend an additional sum of Rs. 20,000
for completing the clearance of the Dadra canal
11. Bund for the protection of
Ismail Shah ka Tanda for the Toolalee flood
12. Irrecoverable balances standing
against the canal depart in the Hyderabad collectorate
13. Charges prepared against
Mr. Barrett a canal survey
14. Report of inspection of the channel of the foolailee
15. Canal clearances.

Public Works Shikarpoor & Frontier 1859-60

1.  Annual repairs roads and bridges
2. Additions and alterations to senior naval officer's quarters at Sukkur
3. Buildings at Jacobabad to be repaired by the public works department. The chief
engineer considers the practice objectionable of making over to the public works
department which
have been built by other departments
4. Six pillars or obelisks
to carry sire over the Indus at Sukkur
5. Supplementary estimate for repairs to
building in the Shikarpur collectorate during the year 1858 and Nein roof to Kardars
Kutchery at Mehur
6. Clearing out drains around the Sind Horse lines at Jacobabad
7. Want of accommodation at Jacobabad for Jacobs Rifle regiments and proposal
of the quarter master general to appropriate the lines at Shikarpoor or the Barracks
at Sukkur and
commencement of lines at Jacobabad
8. Rebuild the old town of Shadadpoor
in the Kumber Talooka Larkana district rest houses
9. Well at peer Munchur Shahs
Mukan near Shikarpoor
10. Residence for the English school master at Sukkur
11. Repairs to the residence at Larkana of Beebee Sahib Katoon of Khelat
12. Door
and window to the quarter guard of the rural police at Shikarpoor
13. Increasing
the size of the Magranee bungalow compound
14. Filling up hollow out side the
Luckie gate Shikarpoor city
15. House for the jail hospital assistant Shikarpoor
16. Well in the desert at the village of Thaim in the Shikarpoor and Sukkur district
17. Serais at Soojawul and Bungul derah
18. Bridge over the Mahomed wah on the
Shikarpoor and Larkana road & Bridges over the trenches cut to supply water
to the trees in the Shikarpoor camp
19. Travelers Landee, and a Pucka well with
cattle through at Mithtow , on the Jessulmere road
20. Out houses to the travelers
Landee at Roree
21. Bridges over roads in the frontier district
22. Bridges over canals from Larkana to Fordwah
23. Improvements city street at Shikarpoor
24. Wells from Roree to the Jeysulmere Frontier
25. Bridging Noorwah, Rohree
and Kohawur canals Kumber and Shadadpoor road
26. Mehur Jail
27. District post office Roree
28. Proposition to convert a dilapidated bungalow on the river bank
at Sukkur into a hotel and to build a towing path
29. Annual repairs to roads bridges & public buildings for 1859-60
30. Stone on the Roree side of the
river above the old mouth of the Qoumurkus canal
31. Bridges over canals between
Nyaderah and Muddajee
32. Tuppadars Landees at Rojan and Mumanghur
33. Landee
for Mooktyarkars office records, treasury at Mehur
34. Compensation to the contractor,
for loss sustained in constructing the police Chowkies and stables at Marah 
35. Shikarpoor jail enlargement.

Public Works Hyderabad Solitary Cell at Meerpoor 1859-60

1. Solitary cells at Meerpoor
2. Bridge over the Fullalie on the Alyar ke Tanda
and Oomercote road
3. Repairs to river bank from the southern termination of the
entrenched camp to Gido ke Tanda
4. English Church Hydrabad
5. Repairs to government
house Hyderabad hell at now Bahar Shah ke Gote, Talooka Muttaree
6. Compensation
to contain Syuds for buildings at Hyderabad taken possession of shortly after the
conquest for the police
7. Tanks at Falee Ke Gote and Kejuaree in the Oomercote Talooka
8. Supplementary statement of annual repairs to government buildings in
the Jooda Talooka
9. Lockups at Nuggur, Mittee and Deepla in the Thur & Parkur districts
10. Filling up pits and building a tank near the jail at Halla
11. Well at Karora / Oomercote Talooka
12. Wells at Naggur Parkar for electric telegraph department
13. Well at Shukkeel Khoosa on the road from Mohomed Khans Tanda to
Ghoolam Ali Ka Tunda
14. Well at Syudabad
15. Well at Rutnow near Sekra holy
way Oomercote and Guddra
16. Two wells along Bellasis road
17. Masonry recess
and shed for the Persian water wheels in the government garden Hyderabad
18. Deepening
the tank at Buddeen
19. Well at Fakeer-Ke-Gote Talooka Meerpoor
20. Office accommodation
fort two extra Tuppedars for the Nowshera and Kundiara districts
21. Police ladies
at Moondwa, Adegum, Mokliah, Chneeda, Cooleeveree, Beron and Ranaveree until the
Rebel Rana is arrested
22. Public works suspended in the Halla districts and compensation
to contractors
23. Telegraph offices Hyderabad and Kotree
24. Annual repairs to public buildings and repairs to roads for 1859 -60
25. Compensation to Mukkoo
Kismutgar for less sustained in making the eastern approach to the new bridge over
the Fullailee near Hyderabad
 26. Two bridge over the Ali Gunj canal
27. Road
between Dowlutpoor and Cazee ke Gote
28. Repairing out house near the deputy collectors
bungalow for the settlement officers establishment Mahomed Khans Tanda
29. Unfinished
works in the Halla districts
30. Timber for the construction of bridges in the
Meerpoor districts
31. Temporary wooden bridges over the Fullialee
32. Permanent
wooden bridge over the Foolailee & proposed Masonry bridge deferred
33. Two
stone bridges over the new Follailee supply channel
34. Compound wall to Kardars
Dhera at Naggur Parkar got sanctioned
35. Enquiry respecting the plans of Punjab Cutcherries
36. Shool and well at Mohomed Khans Tanda.

Returns 1859-60
1. Return of sanctions by the commissioner forwarded to the auditor of public works
accounts and chief engineer in Sind
2. Monthly returns of sanctions given by chief engineer
3. Statement of remunerative works in the Hyderbad collectorate for 1859-60
4. Returns of works of pubic utility executed by private individuals during 1859
5. Return of roads, canals, bridges and public buildings for 1859-60
6. Annual return of public works from 1851 to 1856-57
7. Public works returns for 1857-58
8. Public works returns for 1858-59.

Canals and Bunds General 1860-61

1. Revised rules for canal department
2. Form of general estimate for canal clearances
3. Difference between the superintendent of canals and chief engineer authority
and position of each defined
4. Employment of the canal department: abolition
of certain offices and recommendation to commerce the canal from Roree to Hyderabad
5. Canal clearance estimates from 1860-61
6. Redistribution of the subordinate
canal establishment
7. Form of estimate of Hyderabad canal clearances on File of 1858-59
8. Establishment for water gauges
9. Reduction of canal department.
Minutes by His Excellency the Governor on public works and report by the committee
10. Assimilation of canal clearance with financial year.

Revenue Record

Revenue Record of the Commissioner Office from 1845 to 1857 

File Subject and Contents Year Pages

3 Arts,Industries and Manufactures 1847-52 290

   
3 Revenue Hyderabad
1855 192-334

4 Revenue Shikarpoor 1858 346-442

8 Revenue Management Accounts Kurrachee 1859-60 153-280

9 Taluka Mehur and Tigr Rolls 1855 86-191

11 Revenue Management and Accounts Hyderabad 1859-60 245

 
12 Leases and remissions Hyderabad 568
1858

13 Revenue Management and Accounts Frontier 1859-60 499-580

13 Revenue Management and Accounts Shikarpoor 1858 658

14 Jagheers and Free grants 1855-57 211

17 Petitions Hyderabad 1860-61 870

17 Petitions Hyderabad 1859-60 842

23 Circulars 1859-61 239-490

26 Trafic Returns 1859 216

26 Trafic Returns 1860 286

26 Trafic Returns 1858 236

27 Canal (Inundation Reports) 1859 206

29 Cotton Reports 1859-60 284

34 Tolls and Ferries 1858-61 384

35 Revenue returns 1858 237-481

36 Government Collector of Shikarpoor, Hyderabad, Kurrachee and Police 1859 287-496

37 Gardens Shikarpoor, Hydrabad etc 1859-60 285-533

46 Rules and General instructions 1852-56 604

50 Rough Survey and Settlement Shikarpoor Districts 1856-57 151-443

51 Revenue Trade Returns 1858 482-558

52 Dead Stock 1860-61 164

53 Bills and Accounts Commission office 1860-61 550

63 Boat returns 1859-60 638

63 Boat returns 1858 559-631

63 Revenue Reports Hydrabad 1852-53 387

63 Annual Reports Hydrabad 1850-52 450

64 Annual Revenue Reports 1859-62 499

64 Annual Revenue Reports 1858-61 300

65 Departmental Examinations 1860-61 165-206

68 Canals and Bunds Frontier Kurrachee 1859 207-306

69 Canals and Bunds Hydrabad the Narra 1852 69

69 Canals and Bunds Hydrabad the Narra 1853 217-358

69 Leases and remissions Kurrachee 1859-60 281-396

70 Canals and Bunds 1858-59 509-912

71 Cotton Cultivation in Sind 1852 356

71 Canals and Bunds Frontier 1860 949-958

71 Canals and Bunds Frontier 1859-60 913-948

72 Cotton General Reports 1852 357-426

72 Jagheers, Puttahdarees grants 1853 337

73 Revenue Management Kurrachee Collectorate 1857-58 150

73 Leases and remissions Kurrachee 1857 211-446

73 Managements and Accounts Kurrachee 1857 210

86 Revenue Survey and settlement 1856-60 657

86 Survey and Settlement General 1860-61 528

91 Topographical Survey 1859-60 130

91 Topographical Survey of Sind 1860-61 529-666

92 Trade and Frontier duties Salt 1860-62 443-758

92 Trade and Frontier duties Salt 1859 442

93 Jagheers (Lands) Alluvion and Diluvion rules 1850-56 862

95 Local Funds and Libraries Revenue 1852-56 312

102 Jagheers Kurrachee 1853 440

104 Jagheers Shikarpoor 1852 168

105 Charitable and other Grant Hydrabad (Pir Shah son of Akil Shah Nowshera District) 1852 169-366

Jagheers of Hyderabd collectorate Meer Ahmed Khan son of the late Meer Mahmoud Khan
105 1851 27-124
Talpoor

156 Revenue Management Accounts 1846-50 346

201 Salt works (Thur and Parkur Districts) 1846-51 509

 
 236 Monthly price currents 1856 236

Relating to a body of Persian Vagrants sent down from Lahore to be dispatched to

their own
245 1847 139-22
country

246 Petitions (Nao Mull, head Kardar of Kurrachee and others) 1847-49 290

Jagheers (Grant of Jagheer to Jaffer Khan S/O Durya Khan Thora, Buchal and Jehan
Khan
272 etc Arts, Industries and Manufactures Changs etc        
                       
                       
                    1847-54 357-476
   
                       
                      

Contents of the Files of Revenue Record from 1845 to 1860

Jagheers and Grants to Jagheerdars 1845-54
1. Grant of Jageer to Jaffer Khan S/o
Durya Khan Thora
2. Buchal and Jehan Khan sons of Meer Mahomed Talpoor. Thora,
Pullio and Dost Mahomed, cousins of Buchal
3. Baji Khan and widow of Ghulam Hyder Khokur
4. Jehan Khan Khokur
5. Khudabux and widow Mewa Khokur
6. Bhero Khan Khokur
7. Bahdoor Noon
8. Sher Mahomed and widow Dingana Khokur
9. Yusif Noon
10. Moobarik Khan s/o Rustom Khan
11. Urzee Khokur
12. Bhao Khan Jageerdar
lays claim to land thrown up by the river Shikarpoor collectorate Taluka Sukkur
13. Lushkur Khan and six other Noohanees
14. Duoo, Mehrab, Syed Khan
15. Easan,
Mooreed, Ally Khan, Shano and eight other Noohanees
16. Yousoof, Talha, Chootha,
Taja, Billawul, Noohanees
17. Raheem, Taja, Meer Khan, Sobha and four other Noohanees
18. Sohrab, Sall Khan, Jetha, Jehan Khan, Jam and 11 Noohanees
19. Mahomed
Khan Noohanee Talooka Iyotree Kurrachee collectorate.

Revenue Management and Accounts 1846-50

1. Mr. Pringles administration.

2. Cash rents conversion of corn rents into cash rents in the Gozah division of Mehar
3. Collector of Shikarpur authorized to commute cash rents in kind in certain cases
4. Mr. Pringles circular calling for reports
5. Thar & Parkar district
6. Report by lieutenant S. N. Raikeb (political agent and deputy collectors &
magistrate Thur & Parkur)
7. Revenue accounts
8. System in the Shikarpur district in 1849
9. System of accounts in the Kurrachee district.

Salt work in Sind 1846-51

1. Salt works; Mokye salt works (Thur & Parkur district).
2. The entire control of the secured by the government of Sind, transfer of the
Mokye works to British control and views of Sir Charles Napier on the question of
the levy of duty on salt.
3. Salt beds on the right bank of the Roree Creek and
report on (Shahbunder sub division) by Lt. J. H. Burke of the 130 engineers.
4. Salt duty, excise duty on salt exported from ports in Bombay presidency and wastage
allowance on shipments.
5. Salt trade, report by Mr. H. B. E. Frere on the state of the trade in salt in Sind
(1851).
6. Duty on salt export from Sind.

Arts, Industries and Manu Accession 1847-52

1. Leather
2. Linseed
3. Cultivation
4. Sind Pottery
5. Prices and wages
of labour in Sind in 1839
6. Saltpeter
7. Inquiry as to the capabilities of
Sind for exporting saltpeter
8. Silk trade; and (9) Report on the winding and
dyeing branches of the silk trade of Kurrachee.

Changs 1847-54
Files on the families of

1. Khooda Buksh, Tuth Khan & Gholam Mahomed Changs

2. Meerum Surdar & Hayat Chang, Nuseer Chang, Cummal Wullud Yaroo Chang, Moonda,
Dosh Ally, Wullio, Firoz Hayat, Alla Buksh Changs, Iara, Rohil, Kubbur & 13
others Changs, Barka,
Dhoola Changs, Chuto, Mitto and others Chang, Nuseer and Boodho
Changs of Hydrabad
3. Saindad, Muggar, Shahak, Ghoram, Ghulam Hussain, Ali Morad
and Gull Mahomed Changs of Hydrabad.

Jagheers and Lands 1850-56

1. Employment of a prisoner for the supervision of the government garden Kurrachee
2. Rules for the adjudication of claims to lands in Sind
3. Rules for the grant of lands for building purposes
4. Garden lands, Mr. Freres instructions regarding
the assessment of garden lands or orchards in Sind
5. Gardens in Kurrachee district
6. Shahbunder gardens
7. Appointment of a committee to ascertain the working
and result, financial and general of the government garden at Kurrachee and accounts
of the government garden
8. Government gardens at Kurrachee and Hydrabad
9. Gardens Hydrabad district, Faiz Bagh
10. Gardens of Sukkur district
11. Levy
of the following imports abolished: Ruksutanah, Dhurut and Nazarana
12. Shah Bagh at Shikarpur
13. Gardens of Larkana district and nursery gardens
14. Sale of
government gardens in the Rohree districts
15. Kurrachee government farm.

Cotton Cultivation 1852

1. Egyptian cotton
2. Sea Island cotton
3. Sind cotton (exported)
4. Heerat cotton (Imported)
5. New Orleans cotton
6. Egyptian cotton cleaning machine
7. Appointment of superintendent cotton experiment
8. Price of cotton in Sind fixed
9. Supply of medicine for Mr. Prince.

Local Funds and Libraries 1852-56

 1. Road and educational fund, proposal to levy a cess for roads and education,
compulsory education of children of agriculturists
2. Libraries, Sind association
and library (Frere Hall Library) of 1851
3. Libraries and museums
4. Kurrachee general library and museum
5. General library and establishment of library
at Hydrabad.

Charitable and other Grants at Hydrabad 1852

1. Piri Shah son of Akil Shah of Nowshera district
2. General statement of Grants in Nowshera
3. Shah Ali Buksh and widow of Syud Sooltan Shah
4. Boodum Shah and Gool Mahomed
5. Sons of Puril Shah,
Laik Poor and Shikarpur
6. Gool Mahomed Fukeer
7. Son of Mahomed Saleh of Larkanah
8. Syuds Chuttun Shah and Wuril Shah of Roree.

Jagheers Shikarpoor 1852

1.  Abduoola Khan and Rawut Khan Talpoor Bukrani
2. Ahmed Khan Lughari
3. Alla
Buxsh widow Neeal Khan Murree
4. Ali Akbar Shah and Mooreed Aly Shah of Roree
5. Ghulam Ali Shah, Fukeer Ali Shah, Suwarl Shah of Roree
6. Ghulam Shah
7. Kootub Ali Shah and Gool Shah
8. Boolund Ali Shah son of Kootub Ali Shah petition
9. Moobaruck Shah and others of Roree.

Rules and General Instructions for Jagheers etc 1852-56

1. Jageers:
a. Enquiries
b. General question
c. Definition of shares
d. Transfer of shares
e. Collateral succession
f. Superficial measures employed
in measuring
g. Dates to be accorded to first proof of holding in actual Jagheer,
exclusive of Seree and minor allotments
h. Respecting disposal (from date of Jageerdars
demise) of proceeds
i. Suggestions for the disposal of claims
j. Suggestion
for the disposal in regard to five years produce
k. Boundary marks, and proposed
settlement and surveys of the Jageers of the Great Talpoor families

1. Title deeds to re grantees

2. Lapsed estates:

a. Rules respecting claims of holders

b. Period to be assigned for calculating the proportionate division
c.  In case
of preparation before demise of Jageerdars, heirs allowed to reap the produce
d. Government shares
3. Lands:

1. Resumption
2. Succession (by grants on to
grand fathers)
3. Regarding rates in Churka
4. Grants

a. Respecting shares
in less than 50 Beegas in charitable,
b. By others than the Rais of Upper Sind,
c. In payment of (10 years to invalidated claims), and
d. Rule respecting Mamool
and Seree;
5. Taxes: Rule respecting remission of Hueeaba (water)
6. Rule respecting succession by nomination
7. Jageerdars: Practice observed on demise of a member
of the four great Talpoor families and 1st class, jurisdiction of the police over
the villages belonging to and
maintenance of destitute widows
8. Debts: Settlement against Jageerdars
9. Religions establishments
10. Rules for the adjudication of claims to money or grain held by individual for the support
11. Felony:
a. Practice with regard to Jageerdars conviction
12. Surrinjam: Regarding submission
of report of records and accounts in all future recommendation for pension or lapse;
13. Sunneasee: Orders respecting persons
14. Appeals and petitions:
a. On decision
of Jageers,
b. No notice to be taken without commissioner's endorsement
15. Genealogical
table: Rules observed in the Inam commission
16. Documents: Presentation of certain
classes
17. Forest Limits: Inclusion of Jageer land
18. Rule respecting holders
of alienated revenue
19. Canal clearances
20. Summary of rules
21. Seree:
a. Wijoohal
b. Mulazim derivation.

Jagheer Puttahdarees Grant 1853

The information on

1.  General report on Puttahdaree

tenure and claims
2.  Hubeeb Ollah, Puttahdar
3. Report on petition of Abdool
Ahid, Ulawee, Fakhroo Deen and other Puttahdars
4. Ghulam Mustapha and Ghulam
Moortuza Puttahdars
5. Moorban Khan son of Suliman Khan deceased Puttahdar
6. Abdool Kareem and Jooma Shah of Muddajee of Nowshera Abro district
7. Mahomed Hussain son of the late Ali Murdan Moghul
8. Ghulam Shah, Ghulam Kadir and Buchul of Syudabad
9. Puttadaree of Gosurjee
10. Gadoo Khan Puttahdar of Aurungabad
& Amroot
11. Hatim Shah, Puttahdar of Muddajee
12. Bhao Khan Misree, Puttadaree
of Sukkur
13. First class Jageers, Puttahdars & Khyratdars and second and
third class Puttahdars are present in this file.

Jagheers Kurrachee 1853

1.  Allah Buksh and Ghoolam Shah (Syuds) Talooka Naing

2.  Balech Khan Rhind, Mureh
and Mhow Jagheers
3.  Boolah Khan Noowria
4. Futteh Khan Chandia
5. Gool Mahmomed Lugharee
6. Jan Mohomed son of Mohamed Ali and the sons of Roostum Talpoor Thora
7. Jam Meer Ali Jokea
 8. Jaffer Khan Talpoor Thora
9. Kaisur Khan Noowria
10. Kurm Khan and Dhunee Buksh (Syuds)
11. Koorban Ali Khutiyanp
12. Lall Khan
son of Beelooch Khan Murree Hajanee
13. Progress of enquiries in Kurrachee collectorate
and transfer to the assistant commissioner for Jagheers
14. Real Jagheers. Loonds,
death of a share without heirs; (14) Re Grouts of Jagheers rules
15. Sher Mahomed Khan Lugharee
16. Sher Mahomed, Hakeem, Bahadoor and others, Lugharees Brimain
17. Sirdar Khan Noomria (Mulik)
18. Statement Jagheer preparation of and
Jagheer enquiries.

Taluka Mehur and Tigri 1855

Information about different cases in Mehur and Tigri

1. Sabur Khan Chandia by his

Vakeel Moorad Machee
2. ; (2) Shukkul Khan son of Chupper Khan Murree; (3) Sirdar Khan
widow Mehrab Khan Bhoorqaree; and (4) Doda Powhur

Talukas Baghban Inclusive of Mehur 1855

1.  Shikarpoor collectorate, deputy collector of Mehur
2. Description of Jagheerdars
in Sind; and (3) Sirdar or presumed Sirdars.

Jagheers and Free Grants 1855-57

Different cases and correspondences of

1.  Talookas Shikarpoor and Oboura roll and

correspondence
2. Nowshera Abra Talooka, Sukkur, Ghotekee and Roree
3. Meer
Mahomed Khan of Khyrpoor, (Roree)
4. Hajee Khan and Yar Mahomed Khan of Iltas
Bagranee Jagheerdare of Khan Beyla
5. Meer Mahomed Khan case in roll for Talooka Nowshera
6. Syud Ameer Ali Shah and others of Hoossein Belee, case no. 22 in roll
for Talooka Roree
7. Abdullah Barukzaie
8. Syud Khy Mahomed Shah son of Allah
Wurraya Shah and other Jageerdars and Zemindars of Hoossein Beylah Taluka Roree
complaining against the imposition of certain taxes.

Monthly Price Currents 1856

List of articles in the market of Kurrachee, Hydrabad, Shikarpoor, Frontier of Upper
Sind showing the retail quantities and numbers sold for one companys rupee, during
the month of January to
December 1856.

Revenue Survey and Settlement 1856-61

1. Government letter to commissioner, No 1317 dated 16th April 1856 with accompaniment
etc
2. Revenue surveyors reply No 167 dated the 4th September 1856
3. Government
endorsement to commissioner No 3218 dated the 26th August 1856
4. Commissioners
reply No 346 dated 11th September 1856 etc
5. Commissioner endorsement to collectors
Hyderabad & Shikarpoor and Revenue surveyor in Sind No 218 dated the 12th February 1857
6. Revenue surveyors letter to commissioner No 265 dated 27th February 1857
7.  Letter from superintendent Sind revenue survey to commissioner, dated the 2nd
July 1857
8. Collector of Shikarpoors reply No 230 dated the 15th June 1857
9. Commissioners memorandum to collector of Shikarpoor No 565 dated the 3rd April
1857
10. Collector of Shikarpoors memorandum to commissioner No 148 dated the
8th April 1857 with accompaniments
11. Government resolution to commissioner No
4811 dated the 7th November 1857
12. Commissioners reply No 8 dated the 7th January 1858
13. Government reply No 1288 dated the 6th April 1859
14. Government endorsement
to commissioner No 2219 of 8th June 1859
15. Commissioners endorsement to collector's
Kurrachee & Shikarpoor No 1319 dated 15th June 1859
16. Government endorsement
to commissioner No 1489 dated the 18th April 1859
17. Commissioners letter to
collectors of Kurrachee and Shikarpoor No 1053 dated the 13th May 1859 with accompaniment
18. Commissioners letter to revenue surveyors No 1054 dated the 13th May 1859
19. Revenue surveyors reply No 789 dated the 17th May 1859 with accompaniment
20. Commissioners endorsement to collector, political superintendent Upper Sind
Frontier and Revenue surveyor in Sind No. 2434 dated the 21st September 1859
21. Commissioners: memorandum to the collector of Shikarpoor and settlement officer
Sukkur. No 2777 dated the 17th November 1858
22. Commissioners endorsement to
three collectors' and political superintendent U.S. Frontier No 89 dated the 7th
January 1860; (22) Memorandum by Mr Stewart dated the 3rd March
1860
23. Demi,
Official from captain Macdonald to Major Goldsmith dated the 23rd March 1860
24. Commissioners letter to government No 159 dated the 28th July 1860
25. Collector
of Shikarpoors endorsement to commissioner No 271 dated the 17th September 1860
26. Deputy surveyor generals letter to commissioner No 12 dated the 8th February 1860
27. Commissioners endorsement to revenue surveyor No 2433 dated the 20th
November / 60
28. Endorsement from the collector of Hydrabad No. 393 dated 14th
March 1861. In this file 135 letters which are replies, endorsements, surveys and
memorandum about Karachi,
Hyderabad, Shikarpur, Sukkur and Upper Sindh are present
covering the period from 1856 to 1861 written from different government officers
working in the relevant fields.

Rough Survey and Settlement Shikarpoor District 1857

1. General instructions
2. Quarterly reports
3. Putvarees
4. Establishment
5. Deputation allowance of settlement officers according to the Punjab scale
6. Comparison of measurements as made by Lieutenant Macdonalds and Captain Days establishments
7. Contingent allowance succeeded by Captain Day
8. Robbery of Rs.151156 from
captain Days office
9. Captain Day and establishment granted free passage from Sukkur to Ghizree
10. Annual progress reports for 1856-57

Management and Accounts Kurrachee 1857

1. Irrecoverable balances on the books of the collectorate 1855-56
2. The Hill districts
3. Moorad Khans project to construct irrigational works at the Hubb river
4. Tuccavee advances in the Shahbunder districts
5. Settlements and remissions in the Ghorabaree Talooka
6. Tuccavee advance to Mulk Jhan Khan Jhutt
7. Tuccavee advances in the Jerruck districts
8. Detailed list of Dehs in the Sewan deputy collectorate
9. Revenue settlements in the Sehwan deputy collecotrate
10. System
of assessment in the Behla Kardarate
11. Assessment in the Hill district. The
collector requested to report the result of five years remissions on rain land cultivation.

Leases and Remissions Kurrachee 1857

1. Leases of Dehs Kumaon, Boottee, Koobee and Machee of Talooka Mahjainda

2. Leases of Mukan Sitya of Taluka Kotree, Dehs Bundee, Kandee, Faduk of Sehwan, Bagh
Mijawut and Bootra of Johee
3. Lease of Noorpoor garden in Talooka Mahjinda
4. Leases of garden lands of Channa, Taluka Johee
 5. Gahir Taluka Sehwan
6. Lease of Deh Singool of Taluka Sehwan
7. Lease Deh Garandee, Taluka Sehwan
8. Leases Dehs Tandoo Shabazee of Taluka Sehwan
9. Leases in the Shahbunder district
10. Leases Dehs. Dhera Hiat, Taluka Sehwan
11. Leases of Dehs Boota, Treenee,
De Mookan, Gumbratch, Vulleedad Dhera, Sandanee of Taluka Sehwan
12. Leases of
Mukan book, Deh Chana, garden in Tuppa Kuchar, Deh Jooa, Deh Khoodabad, Four Beegas
of land in Tuppa Moondur, Mukan Baghan, Fishery of the Kinjur and Sonerea
Dunds
13. Leases of Mukans Surree & Multara, Mukan Oodejanee and Mukans Cholunder
14. Leases of Deh Kate Baroche Tuppa, Jangar, Kutehee, Bag Eusuf, Mukan Sehwan
and Deh Sehwan of Taluka Sehwan
15. Remission to the farmer of the fishery of
certain Dunds in the Sehwan Talooka
16. Leases in Mukan Mookee, Tuppa Hubb, Taluka
Kurrachee, Mukan Kookul, Tuppa Mulleer of Taluka Kurrachee
17. Remissions in the
Sehwan & Shah bunder districts
18. Leases entered veto by the deputy collector
of Jerruck
19. Leases of Sehwan deputy collectorate.

Revenue Management Kurrachee 1857-58

1. State of the assessment in the Sehwan district
2. Appoint of Captain L. Dunsterville as deputy collectorate
3. Settlement
and establishment.

Revenue Returns 1858

1.  Quarterly returns of new appointments for the quarters ending 31st March. 30th
June 30th September and 31st December 1858
2. Dismissal returns for the half year ending 30th June and 31st December 1858
3. Delay on the part of the deputy collector
of the Thur and Parkur in forwarding to the civil auditor his return of establishments
and allowances for 1857-58
4. Monthly returns of fines inflected by the forest ranger
5. Quarterly returns of grain sales
6. Statement of decreases
7. Monthly statements of leave.

Boat Returns 1858

1.  Boat returns received from superintendent of the Indus flotilla
2. Renewed
sanction for the entertainment of the establishment for the registry of traffic
on the Indus.

Traffic Returns 1858

1. Returns of traffic between Larkana and Sehwan,
Larkana and Sukkur
2. Returns of traffic submitted by the officers of police
3. Returns of traffic passing Kurrachee Bunder, Seergunda, Boot, Khetty Bunder,
Unnee Bunder and frontier districts Upper Sind.

Revenue Shikarpoor 1858

1. Information solicited by the collector of Shikarpoor regarding the heading under
which Hakkab or water tax should be credited
2. Checks against the Shikarpoor
collectorate on account of certain disbursements from May, 1852 to January, 1855
3. Mr. Surties deputy collector of Mehur complains of difficulty in drawing
4. Reference from the collector of Shikarpoor for information as to whether he is to
omit any past of the revenue collector or brought to account during last year from
the statements for
1858-59
5. An irrecoverable balance of Rs.371,13.2 for the
years 1854-55 & 1856-57 written off
6. Lieutenant Wallace applies to be allowed
to carry on at Sukkar the duties of officiating collector of Shikarpoor
7. The collector proceeds into the districts resumption of land in the town of new
Sukkur required for government purposes.

Revenue Hyderabad 1858

1. Sanction of rupees 20 for the purchase of matting Kardars. Dhera at Mora in
the Nowshera district
2. Alteration in the mode of management of the Pullah fisheries vide
3. Matting for the lower rooms of new Cuthcerry
4. Sanction of rupees 400
for the purchase of Loongees for the canal Jamadars in the Meerpoor district who
exerted themselves in the clearance of canals
5. Compensation to a Tuckeer named
Misree for a Mango garden & a Pucka will destroyed in cutting a new mouth to
the Gaja canal also grant of 28 Jerebs of land for another garden
6. Matting for
Kardars officers in the Meerpoor and Thur & Parkur
7. Compensation to the
purchases of a camel belonging to the Faiz Bagh
8. Report by Captain Lambert,
on the revenue of the Mohomed Khans Tanda district.

Revenue Management and Accounts Shikarpoor 1858

1.  Amalgamation of the Sukkur and Abdoo Kardarates
2.  Rent free lands to Patels
in the Shikarpoor collectorate
3. Transfer of the Sudder bazaar at Sukkur and
sent of a building used as a Kotivalee
4. Alteration of Talookas in the Shikarpoor collectorate and transfer of Mukhtiarkars
5. Reduction of assessment on Sylabee land in the Larkana deputy collectorate
6. Reduction of assessment in Sylabee lands in the Meerpoor districts.

Leases and Returns 1858

1. Settlements made in the Sukkurund and Shahdadpur Talokas
2. Checks on remissions in the Thur & Parkur
3. Remission to Zamindars of
the Nowshero, Kundiara and Mora Talukas also remarks by the commissioner on applications
remissions by the above Zamindars
4. Lease, Mukan Bairain Shah, Tuppah Khokure
Talooka Gooree to Haider Shah wallud Syed Hashmi Shah
5. Lease, Alibur canal and
lands to Meer Khan Mohamed
6. Settlements effected in the Hydrabad collectorate
under the provisions of the rules of 1855 relative to digging wells for irrigation
7. Leases of Muhammad Khans Tanda; and (8) Revenue settlements in the Halla and
Meerpoor deputy collctorates.

Canals and Bunds Shikarpoor 1859

1. Canal works in the Larkana district
2. Canal clearances for 1858-59
3. Extension of the Edenwah
4. Sluices to three
canals in the Mehur deputy collectorate
5. Transfer of Rs.1500 from the sum allowed
for cleaning the Ghar to the clearance of the Nusout canal
6. Report by Mr. A.
R. Macdonald C. S. on the irrigational works executed in the deputy collectorate
of Larkana during the year 1858-59
7. Widening of the tail of the Noorwah (one
of the lower branches of the Ghar) transfer of Rs.2000 from the sum allowed for
the clearance of the western Narra sanctioned for the
purpose
8. Enlargement of
the tail of the Shah Hummeer from a part of the amount sanctioned for the clearance
of the Ghar
9. State of the canals in the Shikarpoor collectorate
10. Additional
Abkalanee expenses in the Mehur district
11. During the present year 1859
12. Overflow of the Ghar, distinction of houses in the town of Larkana consequent there
on assistance of Rs.400 to the poor, Inhabitants to enable them to rebuild their
houses also Rs.100
to be placed to canal expenses for repairing & constructing
the bank of the Ghar
13. Entertainment of a staff of 150 laborers for two &
half months @ Rs.8 each for watching the Bunds of the new mouth of the Sind canal
14. Transfer of Rs.2325 from the Roree district canal clearances to the Sukkur
& Shikarpoor district for the protection of the Gunee Tehgha Bunds
15. Appointment
of Mr. Johnstone as canal surveyor as a temporary measure
16. Advance of tent
age to Mr. Newnham assistant collectorate for canals
17. Rs.500 sanctioned for
Abkalanie expenses in the Larkana District
18. Proposal to repair the Rookun Bund
on the Trunk road between Sehwan & Larkana
 19. Irrigational improvement to
increase the supply of water in the Sind canal
20. Proposed extension of the tail
canals of the Ghar in the Larkana deputy collectorate
21. Relative to the introduction
of native agency in place of European in the Shikarpoor canal department
22. Estimate
of canal clearances for 1859-60
23. Embankment of the left bank of the river
above Roree on account of flood.

Annual Revenue Reports 1859-61

1. Annual revenue reports for 1859 from political superintendent on the frontier of
Upper Sind
2. Collectorate of Shikarpoor, Hyderabad, Kurrachee Commissioner
3. Institutions regarding preparation of Jummabundy
4. Rubbee reports 185860
5. Political superintendent on the frontier of Upper Sind

Topographical Survey in Sind 1859-60

1. Returns of field work

2. Lieutenant Macdonald revenue survey brings to notice
the employment in the electric telegraph department of a computer dismissed from
the survey department for neglect of duty
and insolence
3. Lieutenant Mac Donalds
report of 1857-58
4. Probable period of completion of the Sind revenue survey
and reference to the deputy surveyor government relative to the want of a map of
Sind on a large scale
5. Complaint from the Punjab authorities against Lieutenant
Mac Donald revenue surveyor in Sind for demanding beggar Labourers from the Bhawulpore
authorities

Tolls and Ferries 1859-60

1. Accounts, Hyderabad and Shikarpoor collectorates for the half year ending 31st October
1858
2. Expenditure of surplus ferry funds in the Hyderbad collectorate
3. Alterations in the terms of ferry licenses
4. Additions to the ferry boat
plying between Giddoo Bunder and Kotree
5. Accounts, Kurrachee, Hyderabad and Shikarpoor collectorates for the half year ending
30th April 1859
6. List of ferries
in Sind and of boats provided with single and double landing boards
7. New rates
for the Sukkur ferry employment of Mr Howe
8. Increased scale of tolls on Public ferries
9. Improving the river bank at Kotree from ferry funds
10. Metalling
and raising the Meanee Mooltanee road at Kotree
11. The deputy collector of Sehwan
allowed to expend up to Rs.200 from the ferry funds without sanction
12. Accounts, Kurrachee, Hyderbad and Shikarpoor for the half year ending 31st October
1859
13. Accounts, Kurrachee and Shikarpoor for the half year ending 30th April 1860

Annual Revenue Reports 1858-59

1. Political superintendent Upper Sind Frontier

2. Collector of Shikarpoor,
Hyderabad, Kurrachee and Jemuabundy report to government

Canal Inundation Reports 1859

1. Inundation report and estimate for canal clearance
on the frontier for 1859-60
2. Inundation report canal estimates of the Shikarpoor collectorate for 1859-60
3. Inundation reports of the Kurrachee collectorate
4. Inundation report of the Hydrabad collectorate.

Canals and Bunds Kurrachee 1859

1.  Scheme proposed by Captain Tife for Mulleer
and other valleys near Kurrachee by means of Dams
2.  Repair of the Khunder bund 
3. Repair to sluices in the Shah Bunder district
4. Balances on account of canal
clearances and protection to Futtehpoor bund from the Abkalanee funds
5. Fixing
permanent bench marks in the beds of canals in Kurrachee collectorate and censure
passed on Mr. Elander for negligence
6. Report by Mr. Elander on the present system of canal clearance in Kurrachee collectorate

Canals and Bunds Frontier 1859-60

1. Improvement & enlargement of the Mukkmoahee canal at Kacomabad Rs.1900
2.  Rupees 26100 sanctioned for canal clearances 1859-60.1859-60.

Cotton Reports 1859-60

1. Returns for 1853-59
2. Sind specimen forwarded to Dr.
Forbes civil surgeon and superintendent of the Dharwar cotton gin factory
3. Correspondence on cotton cultivation
4. American cotton seed from Chamber of Commerce Bombay
cotton seed and gins from Manchester cotton supply association
5. Report on
cotton cultivation and cotton damaged in transit through the commissariat department

Petitions Hydrabad 1859-60

1. Ramsing Son of Vadhoo Sing compensation for losses sustained on account of the
Ijara Tax on gram in the Nowshera district
2. Atmaram late head Moonshee Halla
Deputy collectors office
3. Puhoonchbaee wife of Buduldass
4. Buradia, contractor
for the Pulla fishery
5. Obdha boatman of Hyderabad Fukeer and other fishermen
of Khanat in Re Pulla fishery
6. Sobha Chang (appeal)
7. Ayulmull son of Khuttunmull
of Hyderbad
8. Geehee son of Ayul of Halla
9. Jooma son of Khoobur Kumbranee
and Moosa son of Waliana Oonur jemadars of canal clearances at Sukkurund
10. Ghulam
Mohomed of Kuddooree, Taluka Shadadpoor
11. Hajee Hukkoo of Hyderabad, Syud Hyder
Shah and others of Wussee for Mohomed Khans Tanda
12. Munthur Naim and Janee Joonijo
13. Tumachee Bubro of Halla
14. Ali Mohomed Jumali, by his vukeel Jam Khizmutgar
15. Kaisur Khan Rind
16. Poorsoor, a canal contractor
17. Hajee Khatee
18. Girdhurdass son of Hotechund
19. Hajee Sahtoo, Kurm Khan Zemindar
of Nowshera employed as a moonshee in the Larkana district
20. Ibrahim Khan Khizmutgar,
Khooda Buksh Nizamanee, Rukhial Jumal Khan and others, Koura Mull of Hydrabad
21. Ghulam Hyder and other Zemindars of the Doeba Taluka
22. Mohomed Hussain Nizammanee,
Khan son of Gunna Rajpoor, Mohomed Khan and Aboo Bukkur,Hazee Mohomed Sadik of Halla,
Syed Shurfoodeen compensation for land included
within forest limits, Munucck Sing,
Late Mookhtiarkar of Tabba prays for employment, Mahomed Ali, Arbab and other cultivators
of Jame Tande, Gool Mahomed Faqueer Ahmad
 Munjo and Mahmood, Mahomed Shah, Sooltan
Ali son of Mahomed Hussain Nizamanee, Koobaredass son of Mooljee suddur bazar, Hyderbad,
Syed Ali Achur of Dundee, Moonshee
Pahoo Mull, Samun Hindoo of Halla, Kaim Wullud
Bkkur and Syed Alim Shah, Alana and other Mohanes of Halla
23. Khyr Mahomed Wullud
Wessaya of Abjee Nowshera Talooka, Allah Buksh Wullud Ibrahim Khan Jageerdar of
Mahomed Khan Tanda, Nusseer Khan Wullud Jaffer Khan, Ayo Khan
Wullud Morad Ali Khan,
Kamil Khubar, Raj Mahomed and other zemindars of the Sukkurund Talooka, Syed Nawaz
Ali Shah and Gehee Bunya, Lalloo Wullud Gungaram, Compensation
to Mahomed Zumma
of Sekat, Compensation to Ram Rukhio Wullud Mithun, Ghulam Bubbee Nizammanee, Meer
Khan Wullud Purya Matchee vs Peer Meer Ali Shah ? Appeal, Abdoola
Khan Pummun Bunyah
24. Aissa daughter of Bhairoo Khizmutgar, Abdoola Wullud Soomur of Muttaree, Lall
Khan, Kubool Mahomed of Muharee, Moolchund wullud Ramdass Hindoo, Abdoola Muree
of
Newshera, Wudduer a Khysur Khan and Mahomed Ali Murree, Mohandas of Hydrabad,
exemption from Taxation, Hussain Khan Lugharee Wullud Durya Khan Bramanee
25. Gachul Esso, Mohomed Ali and other Zemindars of Nowshera Talooka, Rahil Wullud Hallpotha
Ali Mahomed and Khumeesa, Emam Buksh and Ali Buksh, Jadeen Raqveer of Hallanee,
Buchoo Daee, Mean Bukhsh of Muttaree, Ghulam Wullud Chibbur zemindar, Emam Bukhsh
Wullud Bhaee Khan Loher
26. Hajee Kaka, Nimree Wullud Naleechunga, Claim on the
Engineering Department by Rustomjee Peroze Shah contractor, Vurrial Singh wullud Thakoordass
27. Morad Khan and Mirza Moreed Ali Mogul.

 
Revenue Management and Accounts Hydrabad 1859-60
1. Captain Cowpars revised assessment for the Halla districts, Rupees 1867 written
off as irrecoverable from the books of the Nuggur Parkar Talooka
2. For irrecoverable balances in the Mittee Kardarate

Revenue Management and Accounts Shikarpoor 1859 -60

1. Irrecoverable balances, due by Wahid Bux Zamindar of Tagur written off

2. Mamool allowance to Patels
3. Outstanding balances of Revenue for 1857-58 written off
4. Irrecoverable balances of Sayed revenue due by Hurdass & Gunnomull
written off

Revenue Management and Accounts Kurrachee 1859-60

1. Report by Captain
I. B. Dunstervilles on the pasture lands at Mulleer
2. Tuccavee advances in the
Jerruck deputy collectorate
3. Revised assessment for the Talookas of Sukkur & Ghorabaree
4. Cultivation of land reclaimed from the Mancher Lake by cutting the
new drainage channel
5. Rates of assessment on cultivated land in the Kohistan districts
6. Outstanding canal balances for the years 1855-58 written off the accounts
7. Proposed arrangements of the Jerruck deputy collectorate.

Leases, Remissions and Settlements of Kurrachee 1859-60

1. Revenue settlements in the Shahbunder Talooka

2. Leases with the Zamindars
of Bada, Rajur & Kotree Talookas cancelled
3. Refund in a Jageer case
4. Lease: Mukkan bund in the Tuppa of Bhan to Syed Gool Mahomed Shah
5. Suggestions
by the settlement officer Sehwan for canceling certain leases and granting remissions
to Zamindars in the Sehwan and Bhan Kardarates
6. Leases by Messers Trader and
company of the Salt Peter land in the Sehwan districts
7. Leases Shahbunder
districts.

Gardens 1859-60

1. Shaee Bagh Shikarpoor advances

2. Shaee Bagh accounts Shikarpoor
3. Accounts Hyderabad
4. Lease in the Hyderabad and Goonee Talooka
5. Lease for ground at
Sukkur to one Toolsia
6. Kurrachee and Hydrabad expenses and realizations for 1858
7. Lease of two gardens near the towns if Hydrabad and Alyar to Revendass
and Mehurchand
8. Employment the government garden at Kurrachee
9. Ground at
Mulleer for a garden
10. Sunnuds to Goor Ramchund of Hundiara Peer Toorab Allyshah
of Nowshera for Puttahs for free garden grants
11. Akhoond Hubbeeboollah extra
assistant collector & magistrate Hyderabad Gullee garden
12. Government
garden Kurrachee.

Circular Financial 1859-60

1. Civil auditor empowered to exempt pensioners from personal attendance to receive
their pensions
2. Introduction of the pre-audit system Sind exempted
3. Contingent bills in duplicate
4. Security of treasure while under the charge of military
or other guards
5. Date and hour of transmission to be shown in all official telegrams
6. Government officers prohibited from drawing permanent traveling allowance
7. Printing or lithographing the headings of pay abstracts
8. Service under municipal
commissioners of Rajaram
9. Form of statement for receipts on account of interest
paid on promissory notes to be forwarded as a voucher with cash account
10. Remarks
on Bills of unpaid salaries of the Hyderabad Collectorate, for August 1859
11. Prohibiting the issue of drafts on treasuries at the presidency
12. Remittance
list to be used
13. Balance on account of costs on suits exhibited under miscellaneous
14. Advances to be transferred to a distinct heading of costs on suits
15. Instructions
regarding preparation of estimates of increase to establishments
16. Discontinuance
in public accounts of the heading Bengal Muting
17. Substitution of drafts for
remittance lists
18. Exemption from pre-audit of alienated allowance and allowances
to district and village officers
19. Discount on stamps to be brought to account
in the same manner as the sale of postal stamps
20. Original authority to be furnished
for amounts detailed in accounts under Profit and Loss on account of outstanding
balances written off
21. Rule for the disposal of bills
22. Circulars from the
audit department discontinuing all points which require to be made generally known
will be notified in the government gazette
23. Directors that audited vouchers
for charges be sent with the accounts duly checked
24. Remittances to the Sind
Horse to be made through military pay master
25. The district of Leia & Dhera
Ismael Khan in the Punjab, incorporated
26. Limiting the use of fractional portions
of a rupee in accounts
27. Cash accounts to be sent to Bombay on the 2nd working
day of each month also improved form of preparation
28. Classification of cash account
29. Time allowed for joining appointments either by sea or railway.

Boat Returns 1859-60

1.  Flotilla, returns of river streamers and boats
2. Customs
3. Returns of River Streamers and Boats

Traffic Returns 1859-60

1. Traffic on the Indus at Sukkur from May 1858 to April 1859
2. Traffic returns customs from January to December 1859
3. Police Traffic returns from 1st January to December 1859
4. Shikarpoor traffic returns from January to December 1859
Trade and Frontier Duties Salt 1859-62

1. Salt trade with Calcutta, Representation from Messrs Warwick & Co &
Danolly & Co regarding the salt trade of Sind
2. Bills for salt shipped to
Calcutta per Tartar and Startled Fawn 
3. Supply of salt from the Eastern Della
Mr. Dalzells visit to Sweirgunda
4. Farm of the Seirgunda slat beds to Messrs Dunolly
5. Mr. P. M. Dalzells visit to Sonmeeanee in search of salt
6. Claim
to credit the duty on salt exported from Kurrachee to Calcutta
7. Proposed
increased revenue on slat introduction of an excise on salt into Sind.

Petitions Hydrabad 1860-61

1. Ghoolam Hingoora
2. Hurkishendass widow of Dewan Sobasing
3. Ghoolam Etro
4. Nusseer Khan, Mahomed Hussain and Nuzzur Ali Khan
5. Moonshee Akhoond Khalidoola
6. Meer Khan Mahomed, Meer Ghoolam Mahomed Khan
7. Wadoomull Syud Ghoolam Ali
Shah appeal
8. Imam Bux wullud Kysur Khan Prang
9. Sher Mahomed and other cultivators of Punjmore
10. Hyat Mooghi
11. Nubbee Bux Gopang
12. Gazool Allee Shah of Bhanote
13. Kubool son of Mahomed
14. Sunjur and Nusseer Khan
15. Motoo and Nisbut
16. Syud Mahomed Alle Shah
17. Kulloosing of Mungh
18. Cultivators
of the Nowshera Talooka
19. Abro of Buddeena
20. Puryo son of Laikno
21. Allah
Bux, Gahee Rajpur & others
22. Compensation to Dawood Haroon, Umur Yoosoof
Seekindo Daturdinno & Gwuz cultivators of Halla Talooka
23. Sobha and Khya
Mahomed of Sekhat on forest dispute
24. Khanoo Odhodass Mookhee and other Hindoos,
Mahomedans of Halla Beg Walliana, Ahmed & others of Hyderbad. Dyall and other
shop keepers of Halla Talooka
25. Gujsing wullud Sunt Sing
26. Mooheem wullued
Agurdo, Ubrejo
27. Mehul, Butchell, Kassim and Kumun Mohanas
28. Koorban Ali
Shah, Syud
29. Nuwab son of Duleb Lugharee
30. Amber wullud Hubeeb Shora
31. Kurreemo wullud Sher Khan
32. Hajee and Edun of hall
33. Forest dispute
34. Shorafoodeen, Dinul Shah, Syud and others: Sawul Sing kardar of Kundiara
35. Bukka
Mahomed widow Hadjee Burreero of Mora
36. Pandee of Narra
37. Sahibuo widow
of Fazil Daree
38. Suleeman Bhanoo
39. Bajee Muree of Shadadpur
40. Khumal
bin Tatya contractor
41. Ghoolam Hyder Khan Juttoee and Poonoo wullud Dadoo Chund (appeal)
42. Ramdass widow Seetuldass & other Buchul Shah widow Ghoolam Russool
Syud (Appeal)
43. Kadir Bux Gahee & others of the village of Chaie Pergunah Nowshera
44. Sobha widow Mukan of Sekut in the Muttaree Talooka
45. Hassun Fakeer
Noodanee of Allah Yar ka Tanda Choota son of Mohomed Khan Rind
46. Bucka
Jajee of Mora
47. Lalla Lakoomull
48. Anonymous petition against Akhoond Mahomed
Alli Kardar of Bhagaka Tanda
49. Peer Hajee Ata Mahomed
50. Alla Rukhio and
others of Oomer Kote
51. Katoo Sonar
52. Roopah wullud Pubbah Hyderbad Church
53. Mahomed Ahsan Zemindar.

Bills and Accounts Commissioner's office 1860-61

1. Pay to escort of the Sinde irregular horse
2. Pay abstracts
3. Contingent
bills & advances for contingent expenses
4. Certificate of last payment of
salary made to Sir Bartle Frere
5. Salary and advances to J. D. Inverarity Esquire
6. Refund of pay of 4 peons on the commissioner's establishment for November and
December 1859 and January & February 1860
7. Passage money to Messrs Gardiner
& Castato
8. Adjustment of an advance on account of camel hire
9. Refunds
on account of income tax
10. Pay abstracts how to be prepared

Dead Stock 1860-61

1. Treasure chest, Kardar of Oomer Kote
2. Treasrue chest, Nuggur Parkur Kardarate
3. Bungalows at Dingana and Soofee-Ka-Gote, Hyderbad collectorate struck off
4. Unserviceable police Chowkies, Shikarpoor Collectorate, struck off
5. Commissioners office
6. Carpets, Goonee Kardarate
7. Treasure boxes for Tuppedars,
Thur and Parkur
8. Unserviceable record boxes hall, a deputy Collectorate struck off
9. Furniture of income tax officer Hydrabad
10. Four chairs, One silver
breasted plate and one seal of the Mooktiarkar of Halla Talooka struck off
11. Boxes for keeping stamps for Kardars, Thur & Parkur
12. Wooden chests for
keeping stamps Hydrabad collectorare
13. Furniture for office of deputy collector of Meerpoor
14. Surveying instruments, settlement office, Shikarpoor
15. Transfer
of Kardars Dhera at Hoosree
16. One desk and one table from commissioner's
office made over to the customer's department.

Revenue Survey and Settlement General 1860-61

1.  Arrangements for conducting the duties of the settlement officer pending Mr.
Coulson's arrival
2. Mr. Coulsons assumes charge
3. Revenue surveyor's complaint
on the subject of supplying labour for the operations of the survey
4. Captain
Phillips invested with the powers of a settlement officer. Deputy collectors decision
liable to revision by the settlement officers
5. The collector applies for a copy
of lieutenant Tyrwitts report on the system of settlement adopted in the Oomercote
and Narra districts
6. Discrepancies in the Sehwan survey
7. Charges against
the subordinates of the Revenue survey department at Sehwan
8. Trial of Moonshee
Narain Dass, Vide Judicial Departmen
9. Annual reports of Kurrachee, Larkana,
Hydrabad, Sukkur and Shikarpoor
 10. Transfer of a portion of the establishment from Shikarpoor to Hydrabad
11. The settlement officer Shikarpor applies for sanction
to expend money in obtaining a copy of the revised settlement of the Mooltan district
12. Accommodation in the Hyderabad fort to the Kurrachee settlement establishment
13. Progress reports to be made to the commissioner
14. For report of Sind revenue
survey for 1858-59
15. Repairing outhouse for settlement officers establishment
at Mahomed Khans Tanda.

Trade and Frontier Duties Salt 1860-62

1. Alleged obstacles to the importation of
English sell in India represented by the salt chamber of commerce at North
2. Drafts received by the customs department in payment of export. Duty on salt sent
to Calcutta prohibited
3. Salt required by the board of revenue Calcutta and reference
regarding Mr. Dunollys agreement also correspondence regarding interference of
government in the salt trade of Sind
4. Messrs Dunolly and Company complain against
the collector of customs for refusing to receive excise duty on salt in accordance
with their agreement
5. Draft of new act to regulate the manufacture importation
& exportation of salt
6. Duty on salt imported from the Persian Gulf for eventual
exportation to Calcutta
7. Memorial from Mr. Dunolly regarding his contract
with government of the Seirgunda salt fields.

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