1.1. Read the following Letter from the Governor General in Council To John Shore Esq

We have received your letters of the 8th and 22nd February and 22nd March two date the 25th and 8th February. We have agreed to fix Mr Paterson’s allowance from the time of his appointment to his present commission in Gungamandel and Buldaaud, and during the continuance of it, at fifteen hundred rupees a month, including the travelling charges and the allowance whichhe draw as Registrer to the Canongoes office, Mr Oldfield is to have the same salary that was granted to Mr Eliot by our Resolutions of the 26th Instant viz- 600 Rupees a month for his expenses and personal allowance during the time that he has been or may be employed as assistant to MR Paterson on his present deputation, and we desire that according to your recommendation the Establishment [Page 122] to be drawn for the Native officers with Mr Paterson may be fixed at six hundred rupees a Month.

We recommend to you to limit the termination of Mr Paterson’s Commission to a fixed period which you will determine.

We approve entirely of the Instructions which you have given Mr Paterson for the relief of the Ryots who have suffered from the late calamities of the Season.

22nd February Upon the subject of this letter it is necessary at this time to give you any particular directions, but in general we desire that, in order to clear the Dacca province as far as possible of Decoits, you send instructions to the several Collectors in it to Concert some Plan for Apprehending them, and to use force or stratagem as they may [...] either most effectual for this purpose.

22nd March We consent to the reduction you recommend of two thousand Liced rupees to be granted to the zeminars of Margrah, and remitted from the Zumma of the Sayer Mehals-

25th ditto We agree to Mr Setons request of [Page 123] leave to resign his office of assistant Secretary to your Board and readily consent to your recommendations of Mr I.K. Harrington to succeed him in it, and, when you notify our Resolutions to these Gentlemen, we wish you to afford them also the satisfactory of knowing that we are much pleased with the honorable testimony you have borne to their conduct.

1.2. Agreed we write to the Collector of Dacca & Momensing as follows

In consequence of representation submitted by us to his Lordship in Council from Mr Paterson relative to the Depreadations and acts of cruelty committed on the Inhabitants of the Pergunnah under his charge by numerous bands of Robbers and in particular by one Fakeer,a leader of 1200 Decoits who infest that quarter we have it in commands from the Governor [Page 126] General in Council is direct you in order to clear the Dacca Province as far as possible of Decoits to concert with the Collector of Momensing some plan for apprehending them and to use force or stratagem as you may judge either most effectual for this purpose.

We are & C

1.3.

The Governor General in Council being informed that a Quantity of Grain which was sent from Backergunge to Dacca was consumed in the late fire and his Lordship conceiving it very probably that much private Grain may have been burnt at the same time, I am directed to acquaint you that you are authorized to take away step that may appear to you necessary is relieve the immediate wants of the unfortunate sufferers.

1.4. Read the following letter from the Governor General in Council To John Shore Esq

We have received your Letter of yesterday date enclosing a Minute from your acting President, relative to the Settlement of the ensuing Bengal year 1195- We approve if your leaving the Collectors at liberty in forming that Settlement to depart from one of the principles and Instructions mentioned by Mr Graham’s to have been laid down for the last, as far as to allow an exception from it with respect to the Zemindars or Farmers whose Mehals have suffered from the late calamities of Season, this being clearly and satisfactorily established as the sole cause of their inability to pay the revenue of the Current year.

The increased Distresses of the Inhabitants of Dacca in consequence of the late fire have induced us to direct the Clerk of the Market to dispatch twenty thousand maund of rice from Calcutta to that District, without loss of time, consigning the same to Messieurs Day and Bebb and we have desired that when the whole has been sent away he will state to you Board the Expence increased in executing the order.

We think to proper it proper to inform you that we have appointed Mr John Formbelle, the Head assistant under your Board to succeed Mr I H Harrington as sub secretary.