Report of the Old Records of the Indian Office

Abstract

The papers submitted to me for classification vr6re the* supplementary miscellaneous “ Old Records ” enumerated in the Statistics and Commerce Departmental List, No. 2,897, and in the Lists furnished by the other Departments of this Office. They have been re-arranged in the “ Record Rooms ” in the order of the amended List prefixed* to this Report; my object .in the re-arrangement of them having been to keep the “ Factory Records,” and all the documents relating to the Company’s Factories, distinct from the other “ Old Records ” of the Company. All these papers have now therefore been classified under the following five divisions:— First, the Court Minutes, Committee Minutes, and papers relating to the Legal Affairs of the Company, and to Miscellaneous Matters connected ^ith the Company; Second, the papers -relating to the Shipping, Trading, and General Affairs of the Company; ) Third,* the papers concerning the Foreign Relations of !he Company, many of which it is difficult to really iep&rate from JFactory Records, the Company’$ relations with Japan and China, with the *Dutch in the east, and with Persia, having chiefly been in connection with their factories in those countries