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what People or Stores Major Kyd may have left at Calcutta for a future Conveyance, I have limitted my Indents to the Articles most pressingly requisite. If there be any Spare Room in the Seahorse after providing for other particulars, I would Recommend that her Lading be completed with Rice and Dhall in equal quantities. And should there be Accommodation for more Passengers, Coolies will be the Most usefull Class to send.
Enclosed is m, account Current of Receipts and Desbursements up to the 31st of October with the Documents Appertaining Marked No. 18 to 23, which I beg you will be pleased to lay before the Governor General in Council, at the same time remarking that the Arrears due to the different Establishments of People now here for the Months of October and November, Amount to Sonat Rupees Nine Thousand Eight hundred (9,800.0.0) and upwards; and before the Seahorse can return to us, will be more than double that Sum, so that Unless Major Kyd shall have embarked with a supply of Cash, I imagine it will be thought proper to send it by this returning Vessell. Twelve Thousand Sicca Rupees (S! Rs. 12,000.0.0) in Gold or Silver with the sums which may be expected from Individuals here for Bills on the Governor General in Council will, I conceive, be Sufficient.
I have also enclosed a List of Bills drawn on the Governor General in Council since my last Advice.*
The Rainy Beason seems to have terminated about the Middle of last Month [November) and is Succeeded by favorable Weather, which has proved beneficial to the Health of the People in general. For a more particular Account of the Numbers of Sick in the Hospital during Beptember October and November, I beg leave to transmit the Surgeon Mr Woods Reports for those Months.
I have thought proper to send by this opportunity Thirteen persons whose ill State of Health requires, in the Surgeon's Opinion, removal from this place and I beg leave to trouble you with his List, and particulars of their Cases.
I have the honor to be &c Port Cornwallis
(Signed) Edmund Wells 14 December 1798.
In temp Charge of the Settlement. Ordered that the Papers received from Lieutenant Wells be sent to the proper Offices, and that the Secretary be directed to Communicate his Letter to Major Kyd.
1794.-No. II. Fort William 20th January 1794. Read & Letter from the Superintendant & the Andamans, To Edward Hay Esq! Secretary to Government.
Sir, I request you will be pleased to inform the Governor General in Council, that the Daphne Snow, has now got on board part of the last Provisions and Stores indented for by Liout! Wells for the Settlement at the Andamans, and that part of the Detachment of Sepoys is also ready to embark.
On this Vessel I find that Forty Convicts can be sent, and if the Board thinks fit, I beg that they may be directed to be delivered to me, when I shall apply for them to the Register of the Niyamut Aduwlat.
I have the honor to be Sir Your Obed! bumble Servant Calcutta
(Signed) A. Kyd 2012 January 1794.
Superintendent Andamans. Agreed that Instructions be sent to the Register of the Nizamut Adawlut in Compliance with the above request and that he be desired generally to attend to any similar Appliontion made to him by Major Kyd.
