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made in those of the Postaze according to

official copies and to cause the same to the
officers subordinate to them and to levy the
such corrected distances. The alterations are to take effect from
the 1st proximo.

ERRATA.
Table A.

From Allahabad. to Calcutta, for 504 read 498; from Allynugur to Subathoo, for 761 read 661; from Barrackpore, to Allahabad, for 504 read 482: from ditto, to Arrah, for 401 read 365; from ditto, to Chuprah, for 400 read 364; from ditto, to Gya, for 309 read 273; from Burdwan, to Dinapore, for 331 read 231; from ditto, to Gya, for 264 read 214; from ditto. to Napaul, for 517 read 465; from ditto to Patn, for 324 read 274; from Calcutta, to Arrah, for 401 read 381; from ditto. to Gya, for 309 read 259, from ditto, to Tirhoot, for 401 read 392; from Dum Dum, to Alla habad. for 512 read 497; from ditto, to Arrab, for 409 read 370; from di to, to Chuprah, for 408 read 369; from ditto, to Gya, for 317 read 288; from Futtypore, to Lucknow, for 623 read 103; from Hooghly, to Allahabad, for 506 read 470; from ditto, to Arrah, for 403 read 253; from ditto, to Chuprah, for 402 read 352; from ditto, to Gya, for 311 read 261

salaries to officers
in the service of the
East India Compa-
nys during their ab.
sence shall not extend
to cases of sickness;

and other act or provision of the Law, as enacts that if any Governor or other officer whatever in the service of the said company shall leave the presidency te which he shall belong, other than in the known actual service of the said company, the salary and allowances appertaining to his office shall not be paid or payable during his absence to any agent or other person for his use, shall not extend to the case of any officer or servants of the Company under the rank of Governor or member of council who shall quit the presidency to which he shall belong in consequence of sickness, under such rules as may from time to time be established by the Governor General in India in council, or by the Governor in council of such presidency, as the case may be, aud who shall proceed to any place within the limits of the East India Company's charter or to the Cape of Good Hope, or to the Mauritius, or to the Island nor to cases of offi. of St Helena, nor to the case of any cers quitting one officer or servants of the said Company; presidency for anounder such rank as afor said, who with tha ther, in order to em- permission of the Government of the presibark for Europe. dency to which he shall belong, shall quit such presidency in order to proceed to another presidency for the purpose of embarking thence for Europe, From Bimlipatam Nundydroog, for 29! read 592; from Jug until the departure of such officer or servant from such last-mengumpetta, to Sedashagur, for 565 read 765. tioned presidency with a view to return to Europe, so as that the Port of such Departure for Europe shall not be more distant from the place which he shall have quitted in his own presidency than any port of emba kanion within such presidency.

Supplemental table add from Burhie, to Gya, read 42.

Table B.

Table C.

From Madras to Mominabad, for 602 to read 51.

3D JAN, 1838-Mr. William R. Kennaway, of the civil service, is permitted to proceed to Europe on Furlough, in the present

season

Mr. E. T. Trevor has been permitted to proceed to Jessore, and prosecute his study of the Oriental Languages at that station. 10TH JANUAR 1838-Mr G. J Siddons, of the civil service, embarked for England on board the ship Madagaxas, which ship was left by the riot at sea on the 7th instant.

Messrs D. C Smyth, H. P. Russell and Robert Trotter, of the civil service, embarked for England on board the ship" Ernaad," which ship was left by the Pilot at sea on the 5th instant.

The Honorable the President in Council is pleased to appoint
Mr John F. M Reid to be Post Master General-
His Honor in council is also pleased to appoint Mr. Assistant
Surgeon Samuel Davis, Post Master at Patua.

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No rule valid till approved by Court of Directors, subject to the control of Commissioners for Affairs of India. fourth years of the fourth.

Power for the Court of Directors, subject to aforesaid control to direct the refund. ing of any part of

Mr. Joseph Simpson assumed charge of office of surveyor of the allowance paid shipping to the East India Company on the 1st instant.

The following Act of Parliament passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, is published for general information. CHAP. XLVII.

An Act to repeal the Prohibition of the payment of the salaries
and allowances of the East India Company's officers during
their absence from their respective stations in India.
[12th July 1837.
Whereas under and by virtue of an act passed in the thirty-
third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
intituled An Act for continuing in the East
33 G. 3. c. 52. India Company for a further term the posses-
sion of the British territories in India, to-
gether with their exclusive trade, under certain limitations;
for establishing further regulations for the Gorernment of the
said territories, and the better Administration of Justice within
the same; for appropriating to certain uses the revenues and
profits of the said Company; and for making provisions for the
good order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras
and Bombay, and of another act passed in the third and fourth,
intituled An Act for effecting an arrange.
34 W4 c. 85 ment with the East India Company, and for
the better Government of His Majesty's Indian
territories, till the thirtieth day of April One thousand eight
hundred and fifty four, it is enacted, that if any Governor or
other officer whatever in the service of the said Company shall
leave the presidency to which he shall belong, other than in the
known actual service of the said Company, the salary and allow.
ances appertaining to his office shall not be paid or payable during
his absence to any agent or other person for his use, and in the
event of his not returning, or of his coming to Europe, his sala-
ry and allowances shall be deemed to have ceased on the day of
his leaving the said territories or the presidency 10 which he may
have belonged:" And whereas it is further provided in the said
last-mentioned act, that it shall be lawful for the said Company
to make such payment as is now by law permitted to be made to
the representatives of their officers or servants, who, having left
their stations intending to return thereto, shall die during their
absence and it is expedient that such provision of the Law should
Be it therefore
be altered in manner herein-after mentioned;
enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that so much and such part of parts of the
said two acts passed respectively in the
thirty-third year of the Reign of His Majesty
King George the Third and in the third and
fourth years of the reign of His said late
Majesty King William the Fourth, and of

So much of the Provisions of the re. cited acts as prohibita the payment of

under any of said
rules.

11. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no such rule so to be established as aforesaid shall have any force or validity until the same shall have been approved by the Court of Directors of the said Company, subject to the control of the commissioners for the affairs of India, in like manner as is provided by the said act of the third and reign of His late Majesty King William the

III. And be it furiber enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Court of Direc tors, subject to such control as aforesaid, to direct the refunding, by an officer or servant of the said Company, or by the representatives of any such officer or servants, of the whole or any part of the salary or allow. ance which he or they may have received under or by virtue of any such rules so to be established as aforesaid, if it shall appear to the said Court, subject to such control as aforesaid, that the permission to such officer or servant to quit the presidency to which he shall beton: hath been improperly granted or obtained; and such sum as the said court, subject to such control as aforesaid, shall direct such officer or servants, or the representatives of such officer or servants to refund, shall be a debt due to the said Company, and shall be recoverable by them in any court in like manner as any debt may now or hereafter shall be recovered by

them.

Para 3. The ab.
sentee Regulations
enacted by the Su
preme Government
and approved by us
with the sanction of
the Board of Com
missioners,
those which you will
observe in giving
effect to the provi-
sions of this act.

The Honorable the President in council having considered the terins of Sections I. and 11 of the above act, and also of Paragraph 3 of a d spatch from the Honorable Court of Directors, is of opinion that the exemption granted by that act from the provision of the act 33rd George III which prohibited the payment of any salary to servants of the Honorable Company after the date of their departure from the presi. dency to which they might be attached. may be granted to servants of either Presidency the Members of Government excepted, who may have quitted or who may quit the same in consequence of sickness under the rules established by the Governor General in Council, with the sanction of the Honorable Court or who may proceed to another pres dency not more distant than their own for the purpose of embarking for Europe. But no new ru es on this subject can be established hereafter to take effect before their approval by the Honorable Court.

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The President in Council deeming it necessary therefore to declare the rules that have been passed under such sanction and are still in force, and the modifications made therein by the ap plication to them of the act in question, directs the following rules to be published together with the act 1. Victoria. Cap. 47, for general information.

Civil Servants.-I. Civil servants proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius or the Island of St. Helena, or to any place within the limits of the East India Company's charter, with leave granted by the Governments 10 which they are respectively attached, under medical certificates countersigned by a Member of the Medical Board at the presidency, shall from the date of the pilot leaving the vessel in which they embark to the date of their return provided the period of absence do not exceed two years, draw the allowances of their respective offices subject to the following deductions.

If the salary exceeds 2,000 rupees per mensem, one-sixth for one year and for the second year one fourth.

If the salary do not exceed 2,000 per mensem, one-eighth for | draw while absent on such leave his entire pay and allowances one year and one sixth for the second year,

If the salary of office be not more than 50 rupees per ménsem, no deduction shall be made for the first year, and if it be only so much more that the prescribed deduction at the rate of one-eighth would reduce the allowance drawn to less than 500 rupees per mensem, only so much shall be deducted as will reduce the salary drawn to 500 rupees per mensem, After the year a deduction of one-eighth shall be made from the salary of the officers referred to in this rule.

2. After the close of the second year when the salary of office censes, civil servants who may obtain an extension of leave will daw the subsistence allowance of their rank only, but no such servant, absent on leave on account of sickness, shall draw aless Allowance as a civil servant out of employ, than that of a junior merchant, viz. Sa Rs. 224 per mens m

3 The maximum period for which any civil servant shall be allowed to draw the salary of office or any part thereof is two years from the date of embarkation, and the offices of servants who may not return within that period, will be v-cant and liable to re filled by fresh appointments. Civil servants who may so overs ay the period of two years, provided they obtain an extension of leave on account to the satisfaction of the Government to which they are attached for the delay of their return, shail as above provided receive the subsistence allowance of a servant of their rank, subject to the exception above specified in favor of junior servants, but if they contiue absent in disobedience of an order to return or without sullic eut cause shown that allowance also will be forfelted.

4 Civil servants absent on leave on account of sickness duly certified, if they proceed to England without returning to their presidency, may as her tofore apply to be amitted to Furlongh by the Honorable the Court of Directors, and the Furiough wilt in such cases take effect from the date of leaving their presidency consequently the allowances of office that may have been drawn by themselves or by their agents after their departure, must in that case be readjusted and the difference refunded.

5 Civil servants desicing to avail themselves of the benefit of the act above referred to, and to draw their allowances while ab sent on account of sickuess under the above rules, will be re quired to give security in such amount as may be required by the Government for the refund of any excess that may bedrawn,either by agents at the presidency or by themselves in case of their proceeding to Europe on Furlough or otherwise coming under re trenchinentr

6 No second leave will be granted te any civil servant who has been absent beyond sea for two years. until three years after the date of return from sea, but if a civil servant is compelled by sickness to proceed to sea again within this period, after having been absent less than two years, he will be allowed to compl te that period, drawing the proportion of salary allowed for the remaining time as if the leave had been continuous

Military Officers holding Civil situations.-7. Military officers employed in the Civil departments and drawing a civil allowance are entitled in common with officers holding staff situations in the military department to draw the militrary pay and allowances of their rank while absent at sea, on leave under the medical certificate, and likewise one half of the difference between such allow ances and the civil or staff pay of the offices to which they stand appointed.

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The above allowances are to be drawn for a total period not exceeding two years from the date when the vessel in which such officers embark may leave the presidency or other port of departure, and the civil situation held by any officer who shall not return within that period shall be considered vacant.

without deduction. If the leave solicited exceed the period of three months, the medical certificate must be countersigned by a Member of the Medical Board and the sanction of Government will be required to enable the pilot to proceed to the Cape or else. where under the following rules

14 Branch pilots Master pilots, Mates and Vounlteers, com pelted by sickness duly certified to proceed to the Cape or else. where beyond sea within the limits of the Hon'ble Company's charter, shall be entitled to draw the reduced allowances and to receive the passage money allotted to their rank in the following table: Monk'y passage Allowances money, 500

Branch pilot, Sa. Rs. Master dito,

250

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15 Pilots authorized to proceed to England for the benefit of their health, will receive passage money and draw allowances as heretofore from the date of the vessel in which they embark leav ing her pilot for sea as follows:

Branch pilot, Master ditto,

Mate ditto,

Passage allowance. Sa. rupees

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16 Members of the plot service absent at the Cape or else. where under the rule for such absence above sated, will be required to return to India at the end of six months from the date of their leaving Calcutta, unless they forward to the marine Board as renewed certifcate from the colonial surgeon or other pricipal medical officer of the place where they may be residing ststag that a prolonged residence is necessary for complete recovery

17. A member of the pilot s rvice absent under the a ove rules may, provided he forwards renewed medical certificates every six months required in the preceeling rule, continue absent from India for a total period not exceeding two years, drawing during ebsence the allowances stated, either through bis ag-nts. at Calcutta or by bill signed in the presence of a magistrate at be place where he may be residing and certified to be so signed on the date specified The Bills may be drawn in duplicate and will be payable to the order of the pilot, provided however that no pilo: shall be allowed to benefit by this provision unless he shall give security to such amount as may be prescribed by Government to cover any refunds to which he may become liable in case of proceeding to Europe or of over receipt by agents

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Any member of the pilot service who shall be absent be. yond sea for a period exceeding two years, shall from the date of the expiration of the two ye rs be considered as suspended from the service. It will remain to be decided upon his return at anv subsequent date, whether he shall be restored or not accordi: gly as he shall be able to satisfy the Marine Board and Government, that he used all possible exertions to return within the time fixed, but failed to do so from causes beyond his control.

General rule-9 Under the authority of the provisions con

9 The rules for furnishing medical certificates aid for regula-tained in the latter part of clause I Act L. Victoria, Cap. 47, it ia ting the forms and manner of drawing military allowances during. absence on leave, have been laid down in general Orders in the military department.

further provided in respect to all the above classes of oficers that, if they embark with the p rmission of Government, at any other presidency than their own, or at any other place or port in India, provided that it be not more distant from their station than the ports of their own presidency, the date for the commencement of the operation of the above rules for sick leave beyond sea, sball be that of actual embarkation at such place or port, and not that of leaving the frontier of their own respective presidency, and the same privilege in respect to the date of leaving India, will be granted to officers of the several services referred to embarking at

10 The civil auditor will pass the Bills of officers on leave beyond sea under medical certificate for the portion of the civil salary which they are permitted to draw by those rules in like manner as is provided for civil servants proceeding to sea on medical certificate. But it is hereby provided, that civil allow. auces shall not be drawn by a military oficer under this rule after the date of departure beyond sea, unless securi v shall have been previously given in such amount as may be fixed by Goother presidencies or places in India not more distant from their vernment.

Ecclesiastical department.-11 Chaplains proceeding to any place beyond sea for the benefit of their heath under the rules prescribed for officers of the ecclesiastical department, shall in respect to the proportion of allowances te be drawn during the period of absence, as also in respect to the conditions ani period for which such allowances are to be drawn, and likewise in res pect to the allowances to be drawn in case of their not returning within two years, be subject to the same precise rules as civil servants proceeding to any place beyond sea on sick leave.

Pilots.-12 The following rules have been established for members of the pilots service under the sanction of the Honorable Court of Directors.

station than the ports of their own presidency with the leave of Government previously obtained for the purpose of proceeding to Europe on furlough or of retiring from the service altogether 20 In the above rules no provision is made for the case of ser ants of the classes mentioned resigning the service after leaving their presidency with the permission of the Government in coase. quence of sickness The case of such persons has been considered by the President in connil to require a new rule, which under the terms of the Act requirs te be submitted for the confirmation of the Hon'ble the Cou t of Directors before it can take effect, It is accordin:ly declared that the security to be given by servan's as the condition of their drawing allow nces while absent from their presidency, must provide for the case of such retirement, and the servants mast bin themselves to refund the whole of the allowances so drawn in cases of their resignation and departure for Europe without previous return to their presidency, provided that the new rules to be established should require such refund.

18 Members of the pilot service whose state of health may re quire a voyage to sea, or who may on that account desire to leave the presidency, shall submit application for the same through the master attendant to the Marine Board, forwarding with the ap plication a certificate from the marine surgeon or assistant surgeon, the Marine Board may grant leave for any period not exceeding three months, and the party availing himself of it, may the Pension fund,

These allowances are to be subject to the subscription to

FORT WILLIAM GENERAL DEPARTMENT, JANUARY 17TH.- The orders received hitherto containing no privision in respect Notice is hereby given, that the salaries and allowances of the to Newspapers, Pamphlets or other unsealed packets of printed civil and Marine departments for January, instant, will be dispapers transmitted via the Red Sea or the Persian Gulph, these charged by the Sub Treasurer and Marine Paymaster respectively will be subjected in India to no charge beyond that of Inland on or after Thursday, the 15th proximo. postage duty.

The Government of India having received from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors copy of a letter addressed by the Secretary to the Post Master General in England, to the Honorable Court, dated 11th September 1837, from which it appears that an Act (1, Victoria, Cap. 76,) had been passed by the British Parliament for regulating the Postage to be levied on Letters transmitted between the United Kingdom and India by Her Majesty's medi terranean Packets, the President in ouncil deems it necessary to publish for general information, the rates of Postage established thereby in supercession of those established by Clause XXXIV. of Rules for the management of the Post Office departmeur, passed by the Right Hon'ble the Governor General of India in Council on the 30th August 1837.

The following are the Orders contained in the Letter above re. ferred to, to which the Post Master General and Post Masters in

Mr. J.F.M. Reid assumed charge of the General Post Office ou the 15th instant.

The Hon'ble the President in Council is pleased to attach to the North Western Provinces, Mr. G. D. Raikes, Writer reported qualified for the public service.

Mr. G. D. Raikes, Writer, is reported qualified for the public service by proficiency in two of the Native Languages,

JANUARY 17TH, -Notice is hereby given, that the Salaries and Allowances of the Civil and Marine Departments for January, instant, will be discharged by the Sub Treasurer and Marine Paymaster respectively, on or after Thursday, the 15th proximo.

the different Presidencies of India, are hereby required to give Law Commission, reported his return to this presidency on the JANUARY 220.-C H. Cameron, Esq., Member of the Indian 18th instaut.

attention.

The Hon'ble T B Macaulay, Esq Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of India, having taken his passage to England in the Ship Lord Hungerford. resigned his seat in the said Council on the 17t instant

The Presidency of the Council of India in Council, with the concurrence of the Governor General, has this day appointed Charles Hay Cameron, Esq to be Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of India, and the said Charles Hay Cameron has accordingly taken the oaths and his seat in the said Council under the usual salute from the Ramparts of Fort William

By order of the Hon'ble the Fiesident of the Council of India in Council.

The Act 1st Victoria, Cap. 76, having authorized a Postage of of is. single, 28. double, 3s. treble, and 4s for an ounce weight, and for every quarter of an ounce beyond that weight, the Pos age of a single Letters upon all Letters passing between any port in the Red Sea or Persian Gulph and the East Indies, which are not conveyed to or from the United Kingdom by Per majesty's Mediterranean Packets, I am commanded by the Post Master Geberal to request you will move the Court of Directors to give ins tructions to their Post Masters in India to demand this rate upon all Letters, which shall not be enclosed in the Mails despatched from Falmouth for the East Indies which will be made up in boxes marked East India Mail from the United Kingdom by her Majesty's Mediterranean Packets', with the exception of letters put into the Post Offices of the United Kingdom, which shall be adJANUARY 24TH.-The Hon'ble W. H L. Melville has been per. dressed to India via Marseilles, and upon which as the Postage mitted to resign the East India Company's civil service from the alluded to would have already been paid in this country no addidate on which the pilot may quit the ship "Charles Grant" tional rate should be demanded, Letters of this description can at Sea. be easily distinguished from their having the Post mark of the Town in the United Kin dom, at which they were posted in ad dition to the address of via Marseilles. With the exception of these two classes, namely, Letters contained in the Mail Boxes and those addressed via Marseilles, all Letters conveyed to the East Indies by Packet will be liable to the charges in question, which can only be collected by the Company's Post Masters from the persons to whom they are ad rossed in India.

With respect to the return correspondence, this rate must not be taken in fudia on either of the two classes of Letters before mentioned, whether they shali he simply addressed to the United Kingdom or passing through it to countries beyond or whether directed to it via Marseilles, as the Postage can be collected in this country. On all other Letters however the rate must be de. manded at the time the Letter is posse in India as the only means of securing the charge, the Post Office having no method of collecting it in the countries to which the Letters will be ad. dressed.

Under the above Orders, Inland Postage only will be leviable in India on letters arriving from or received for transmission to the United Kingdom via any Port in the Red Sea or Persian Gulph, If Letters a rive from or are adtressed to any other place than the United Kingdom, so that the postage will not be leviable therein, the following rates will be levied in India, as the place of delivery or of receipt for transmission.

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Single postage being added for leach additional Tolah weight. Note.-8 Annas has been assumed as equal to 1 Shilling. A scale according to weight has been substituted for the rule regarding single and double Letters for uniformity with the system generally in force in India, and because the Post Masters have not the means of discriminating between single and double sheets; 3 Tolahs also have been assumed as equivalent to an ounce.

No Ship Postage under Schedule B. Act No XVII. 1837, will be leviable in India on letters transmitted in the manner pro. vided for in these rules, notwithstanding that they may have been conveyed or may be forwarded between India and the Red Sea or Persian Gulph in Sailing Vessels.

The Hon'ble the Deputy Governor of Bengal is pleased to grant to Mr. Thomas Parry Woodcock of the civil service, proceeding on furlough, an extension of the leave of absence granted to him under the orders of the Hon'ble the Lient Governor of the North Western Provinces, dated the 17th October last, till the date of the departure of the February steamer from Bombay.

Mr. C R. Martin has been permit ed to resign the East India Company's Civil Service from this date.

SEPARATE DEPARTMENT.—The officiating deputy collector of Noa Khully is hereby vested with jurisdiction for the trial of Persons charged with offences against the Laws for the protection of the Salt Revenue when made over by the Superintendent of Salt chookees appointed to that District under the ct No. IX. of 1835, and the said Officiating Deputy Collector shall, and it is hereby empowered to exercise in respect to such cases the powers described in Sections XC VI. and other provisions of Regulation X. 1819 of the Bengal Code.

H. T. PRINSEP, Secy. to Govt.

FORT WILLIAM, POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, DECEMBE", 20TH 1837.Mr. B. H. Hodgson, resident at Catmandboo, delivered over charge of the office of the residency to Mr. A. Campbell, assistant on the 5th instant.

Captain H W. Trevelyan, assistant to the agent to the Governor General for the states of Rajpootana, reported his departure on the 14th instant from Calcutta, in progress to the Cape of Good Hope, on board the ship Seringapatam.

JANUARY 3D-Mr. C. E Trevelyan, deputy secretary to Government in the political department, has obtained leave of absence. on private affairs, from the 1st instant, until the datO of the sailing of the Lord Hungerford" for Eugland

Captain H. F. Sandys, principal assistaut in charge of Nimaur has obtained one month's leave of absence, from the 5th instant. JANUAY, 13TH--Lieutenant Colonel J. Caulfield, Superin. tendent of the Mysore Princes, has obtained one week's leave of absence to proceed to Saugor.

JAN. 17TH-The Hon'ble the President in Council has been pleased to direct that the following paper be published for genecal information:

Direction for entering the Hujamaree and Kedyweree Rivers. The mouth of the Hujamaree branch of the Indus lies in Lati. tude 24. 8. 25 North and Longitude 67. 25. East-on the North point there is a beacon 45 feet high, with a large cone on the summit, which in clear weather can be seen distinctly at a distance of 10 miles, and in the channel leading towards it across the shoals, there are tow buoys, one outside its mouth, and the others on the point of a sandbank projecting from the left bank of the river.

Vessels intending to enter this branch, ought on sighting the beacon to stand in towards the land untill they are close to the shoals, in about 4 fathoms, and then steer along them until they bring it to bear N N. E. E., they will then be at the entrar co of the channel close to the large fair way buoy, which has a cons on it, and is laid down in 20 feet at high water springs tides. From the buoy a course steered direct for the beacon, until a

If the salary do not exceed 2,000 per mensem, one-eighth for | draw while absent on such leave his entire pay and allowances one year and one sixth for the second year,

If the salary of office be not more than 50 rupees per mensem, no deduction shall be made for the first year, and if it be only so much more that the prescribed deduction at the rate of one-eighth would reduce the allowance drawn to less than 500 rupees per mensem, only so much shall be deducted as will reduce the salary drawn to 500 rupees per mensem. After the year a deduction of one-eighth shall be made from the salary of the officers referred to in this rule.

2. After the close of the second year when the salary of office ceases civil se van's who may obtain an extension of leave will daw the subsist-nce allowance of their rank only, but no such servant, absent on are on account of sickness, shall draw aless allowance as a civil servant out of employ, than that of a juuior merchant, viz. Sa Rs. 224 per mens m

without deduction. If the leave solicited exceed the period of three months, the medical certificate must be countersigned by a Member of the Medical Board and the sanction of Government will be required to enable the pilot to proceed to the Cape or elsewhere under the following rules

14 Branch pilots Master pilots, Mates and Vouniteers, compelted by sickness duly certified to proceed to the cape or else. where beyond sea within the limits of the Hon'ble Company's charter, shall be entitled to draw the reduced allowances and to receive the passage money allotted to their rank in the following tab.e: Mon hypassage Allowances" money.

Branch pilot, Sa. Rs.
Master disto,

500

250

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80

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Junior ditto.

70

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500

400

3.50

320

300

30

15 Pilots authorized to proceed to England for the benefit of their health, will receive passage money and draw allowances as heretofore from the date of the vessel in which they embark leav

3 The maximum period for which any civil servant shall be allowed to draw the salary of office or any part thereof is two years from the date of embarkation, and the offices of servants who may not return within that period, will be v cant and able to e filled by fresh appointments. Civil servants who may so overstay the period of two years, provided they obtain an extension of leave on account to the satisfaction of the Government to which theying her pilot for sea as follows : are attached for the delay of their return, shall as above provide l receive the subsistence allowance of a servant of their rank, subject to the exception above specified in favor of junior servants, but if they contiue absent in disobedience of an order to rezura or without sulic ent cause shown that allowance also will be forfeited.

4 Civil servants absent on leave on account of sickness duly certified, if they proceed to England without returning to their presidency, may as her tofore apply to be a mitte i to Furlough by the Honorable the Court of Directors, and the Furough will in such cases take effect from the date of leasing their presidency consequently the allowances of office that may have been drawn by themselves or by their agents after their departure, must in that case be readjusted and the difference refunded

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Civil servants desiring to avail themselves of the benefit of the act above referred to, and to draw their allowances while ab sent on account of sickness under the above rules, will be re quired to give security in such amount as may be required by the Government for the refun of any exc. ss that may bedrawn,either by agents at the presidency or by themselves in case of their pro. ceeding to Enrope on Furlongh or otherwise coming u de retrenchmentr

6 No second leave will be granted te any civil servant who has been absent beyond sea for two years, until three years after the date freturn from sea, but if a civil servant is compelled by sick. ness to proceed to sea again within this period, after having been absent less than two years, he will be allowed to complete that period, drawing the proportion of salary allowed for the remaining time as if the leave had been continuous

Military Officers holding Civil situations.-7. Military officers employed in the Civil departments and drawing a civil allowance are entitled in common with officers holding staff situations in the military department to draw the militrary pay and allowances of their rank while absent at sea, on leave under the medical certi ficate, and likewise one half of the difference between such allow ances and the civil or staff pay of the offices to which they stand appointed.

The above allowances are to be drawn for a total period not exceeding two years from the date when the vessel in which such officers embark may leave the presidency or other port of departure, and the civil situation held by any oficer who shall not return within that period shall be considere vacant.

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16 Members of the plot service absent at the Cape or else. where under the rule for such absence above stated, wil be required to return to India at the end of six months from the date of their leaving Calcutta, unless they forward to the marine Board as renewed certificate from the colonial surgeon or other pria cipal medical officer of the place where they may b residing stating that a prolonged residence is necessary for complete recovery

17. A member of the pilot s rvice absent under the a ove rules may, provided he forwards renewed medical certificates every six months required in the preceeling rule, continue absent from India for a total eriod not exceeding two years, drawing during ebsence the allowances stated, either through his ag-uts, at Ca cutta or by bill signed in the presence of a magistrate at be place where he may be residing and certified to be so signed on the date specified The B's may be drawn in duplicate and will he payable to the order of the pilot, provided however that so pilor shall be allowed to benefit by this provision unless he shall give security to such amount as may be prescribed by Government to cover any refunds to which he may become liable in case of proceeding to Europe or of over receipt by agents

18 Any member of the pilot service who shll be absent he yond sea for a period exceeding two years, shall from the date of the expiration of the two years be considered as suspended from the service. It will remain to be decided upon his return at any subsequent date, whether he shall be restored or not accordingly as he shall be able to satisfy the Marine Board and Government, that he used all possible exertions to return within the time fixed, but failed to do so from causes beyon this control.

General rule- 9 Under the authority of the provisions con

9 The rules for furnishing medical certificates a d for regula-tained in the latter part of clause I Act I. Victoria, Cap. 47, it in ting the forms and manner of drawing military allowances during, absence on leave, have been laid down in general Ordcis in the military department.

10 The civil auditor will pass the Bills of officers on leave beyond sea under medical certificate for the portion of the civil salary which they are permitted to draw by those rules in like manner as is provided for civil servants proceeding to sea ou medical certificate. But it is hereby provided, that civil allow. auces shall not be drawn by a military oicer under this rule after the date of departure beyond sea, unless security shall have been previously given in such amount as may be fixed by Go

vernment.

Ecclesiastical department.-11 Chaplains proceeding to any place beyond sea for the benefit of their beath under the rules prescribed for officers of the ecclesiastical department, shall in respect to the proportion of allowances te be drawn during the period of absence, as also in respect to the conditions and period for which such allowances are to be drawn, and likewise in res pect to the allowances to be drawn in case of their not returning within two years, be subject to the same precise rules as civil servants proceeding to any place beyond sea on sick leave.

Pilots.-12 The following rules have been established for members of the pilots service under the sanction of the Honorable Court of Directors.

13 Members of the pilot service whose state of health may re quire a voyage to sea, or who may on that account desi e to leave the presidency, shall submit application for the same through the master attendant to the Marine Board, forwarding with the ap plication a certificate from the marine surgeon or assistant surgeon, the Marine Board may grant leave for any period not exceeding three months, and the party availing himself of it, may

further provided in respect to all the above classes of officers that, if they embark with the p rmission of Government, at any other presidency than their own, or at any other place or port in India, provided that it be not more distant from their station than the ports of their own presidency, the date for the commencement of the operation of the above rules for sick leave beyond sea, shail be that of actual embarkation at such place or port, and not that of leaving the frontier of their own respective presidency, and the same privilege in respect to the date of leaving India, will be grauted to officers of the several services referred to embarking at other presidencies or places in India not more distant from their station than the ports of their own presidency with the leave of Government previously obtained for the purpose of proceeding to Europe on furlough or of retiring from the service altogether.

20 In the above rules no provision is made for the case of serants of the clas-es mentioned resigning the service after leaving their presidency with the permission of the Government in conse quence of sickness. The case of such persons has been considered by the President in Council to require a new rule, which under the terms of the Act requir, te be submitted for the confirmation of the Hon'ble the Cout of Directors before it can take effect. It is accordingly declared that the security to be given by servants as the condition of their drawing allow nces while absent from their presidency, must provide for the case of such retirement, and the servants must bin themselves to refund the whole of the allowances so drawn in cases of their resignation and departure for Europe without previous return to their presidency, provided that the new rules to be established should require such refund.

These allowances are to be subject to the subscription to the Pension fund.

PORT WILLIAM GENERAL DEPARTMENT, JANUARY 17TA.- The orders received hitherto containing no privision in respect Notice is hereby given, that the salaries and allowances of the to Newspapers, Pamphlets or other unsealed packets of printed civil and Marine departments for January, instant, will be dispapers transmitted via the Red Sea or the Persian Gulph, these charged by the Sub Treasurer and Marine Paymaster respectively will be subjected in India to no charge beyond that of Inland on or after Thursday, the 15th proximo. postage duty.

The Government of India having received from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors copy of a letter addressed by the Secretary to the Post Master General in England. to the Honora le Court, dated 11th September 1837, from which it appears that an Act (1, Victoria. Cap. 76,) had been passed by the British Parliament for regulating the Postage to be levied on Letters transmitted between the United Kingdom and India by Her Majesty's medi terraneau Packets, the President in ouncil deems it necessary to publish for general information, the rates of Postage established thereby in supercession of those established by Clause XXXIV, or Rules for the management of the Post Office departmenr, passed by the Right Hon'ble the Governor General of Iudia in Council on the 30th August 1837.

The foliowing are the Orders contained in the Letter above referred to, to which the Post Master General and Post Masters in

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the different Presidencies of India, are hereby required to give Law Commission, reported his return to this presidency on the JANUARY 220.-C H. Cameron, Esq., Member of the Indian

attention.

The Act 1st Victoria, Cap. 76, having authorized a Postage of of is. single, 2s. double, 3s. treble, and 4s for an ounce weight, and for every quarter of an ounce beyond that weight, the Pos age of a single Letters upon all Letters passing between any port in the Red Sea or Persian Gulph and the East Indies, which are not conveyed to or from the United Kingdom by Per majesty's Mediterranean Packets, I am commanded by the Post Master General to request you will move the Court of Directors to give ins tructious to their Post Masters in India to demand this rate upon all Letters, which shall not be enclosed in the Mails despatched from Falmoth for the East Indies which will be made up in boxes marked East India Mail from the United Kingdom by her Ma. jesty's Mediterranean Packets, with the exception of letters put into the Post Offices of the United Kingdom, which shall be addressed to India via Marseilles, and upon which as the Postage alluded to would have already been paid in this country no addi tional rate should be demanded, Letters of this desciption can be easily distinguished from their having the Post mark of the Town in the United Kingdom, at which they were posted in addition to the address of via Marseilles. With the exception of these two classes, namely, Letters contained in the Mail Boxes and those addressed via Varseilles, all Letters conveyed to the East Indies by Packet will be liable to the charges in question, which can only be collected by the Company's Post Masters from the persons to whom they are ad rossed in India.

18th instaut.

The Hon'ble T B Macaulay, Esq Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of India, having taken his passage to England in the Ship Lord Hungerford. resigned his seat in the said Council on the 17t instant

concurrence of the Governor General, has this day appointed The Presidency of the Council of India in Council, with the Charles Hay Cameron, Esq to be Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of India, and the said Charles Hay Cameron bas accordingly taken the oaths and his seat in the said Council under the usual salute from the Ramparts of Fort William

By order of the Hon'ble the Fiesident of the Council of India in Council.

JANUARY 24TH-The Hon'ble W. H L. Melville has been per mitted to resign the East India Company's civil service from the at Sea. date on which the pilot may quit the ship "Charles Grant”

The Hon'ble the Deputy Governor of Bengal is pleased to grant to Mr. Thomas Parry Woodcock of the civil service, proceeding on furlough, an extension of the leave of absence granted to him under the orders of the Hon'ble the Lieut Governor of the North Western Provinces, dated the 17th October last, till the date of the departure of the February steamer from Bombay.

Mr C R. Martin has been permitted to resign the East India Company's Civil Service from this date.

With respect to the return correspondence, this rate must not be taken in India on either of the two classes of Leftes before mentioned, whether they shali he simply addressed to the United Kingdom or passing through it to countries beyond or whether directed to it via Marseilles, as the Postage can be collected in this country. On all other Letters however the rate must be de. manded at the time the Letter is pos e in India as the only means of securing the charge, the Post Office having no method of collecting it in the countries to which the Letters will be adgulation X. 1819 of the Bengal Code. dressed.

SI PARATE DEPARTMENT.—The officiating deputy collector of Noa Khully is hereby vested with jurisdiction for the trial of persons charged with offences against the Laws for the protection of the Salt Revenue when made over by the Superintendent of Salt chookees appointed to that District under the ct No. IX. of 1835, and the said Officiating Deputy Collector shall, and it is hereby empowered to exercise in respect to such cases the powers described in Sections XC VI. and other provisions of Re

Under the above Orders, Inland Postage only will be leviable in India on letters arriving from or received for transmission to the United Kingdom via any Port in the Red Sea or Persian Gulph, If Letters a rive from or are addressed to any other place than the United Kingdom, so that the postage will not be leviable therein, the following rates will be levied in India, as the place of delivery or of receipt for transmission.

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S Annas Single postage being added for leach additional Tolah weight. Note.-8 Annas has been assumed as equal to 1 Shilling. A scale according to weight has been substituted for the rule regarding single and double Letters for uniformity with the system generally in force in India, and because the Post Masters have not the means of discriminating between single and double sheets; 3 Tolahs also have been assumed as equivalent to an ounce.

No Ship Postage under Schedule B. Act No. XVII. 1837, will be leviable in India on letters transmitted in the manner pro. vided for in these rules, notwithstanding that they may have been conveyed or may be forwarded between India and the Red Sea or Persian Gulph in Sailing Vessels.

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H. T. PRINSEP, Secy. to Govt.

FORT WILLIAM, POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, DECEMBR", 20TH 1837.Mr. B. H. Hodgson, resident at Catmandoo, delivered over charge of the office of the residency to Mr. A. Campbell, assistant on the 5th instant.

Captain H W. Trevelyan, assistant to the agent to the Governor General for the states of Rajpootana, reported his depar. fure on the 14th instant from Calcutta, in progress to the Cape of Good Hope, on board the ship Seringapatam.

JANUARY 3D-Mr. C. E Trevelyan, deputy secretary to Government in the political department, has obtained leave of absence. on private affairs, from the 1st instant, until the date of the sailing of the Lord Hungerford" for Eugland

Captain H. F. sandys, principal assistant in charge of Nimaur has obtained one month's leave of absence, from the 5th instant. JANUAY, 13TH-Lieutenant Colonel J. Caulfield, Superin. tendent of the Mysore Princes, has obtained one week's leave of absence to proceed to Saugor.

JAN. 17TH.-The Hon'ble the President in Council has been pleased to direct that the following paper be published for general information:

Direction for entering the Hujamaree and Kedyweree Rivers. The mouth of the Hujamaree branch of the Indus lies in Latitude 24. 8. 25 North and Longitude 67. 25. East-on the North point there is a beacon 45 feet high, with a large cone on the summit, which in clear weather can be seen distinctly at a distance of 10 miles, and in the channel leading towards it across the shoals, there are tow buoys, one outside its mouth, and the others on the point of a sandbank projecting from the left bank of the river.

Vessels intending to enter this branch, ought on sighting the beacon to stand in towards the land untill they are close to the shoals, in about 4 fathoms, and then steer along them until they bring it to bear N N. E. E., they will then be at the entrar co of the chaunel close to the large fair way buoy, which has a cone on it, and is laid down in 20 feet at high water springs tides. From the buoy a course steered direct for the beacon, until a

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