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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1902.
upon the Superintendant, being in fact the only Person whose Situation will enable him to procure and keep up a Stock for daily Consumption, I have no hesitation in giving the fullest credit to the Assertion, that it must require the whole of the above Allowances to defray his unavoidable Expences there, and I am persuaded that under the Circumstances of that Sacrifice to the public Service, which Major Kyd is making by an almost entire Seclusion from Society, it will not be deemed unreasonable to grant him a Table allowance of 20 Rupees per Diem, that he may be enabled to effect some savings out of his personal Allowances and that this Table Allowance should commence from the date of his last return and resuming the Superintendence at Port Cornwallis.
Agreed to the Propositions contained in the above Minute.
1794.No. XIII.
Fort William 21st April 1794. Agreed that the following Letter be written to Major Kyd. Major Kyd 21st April 1794.
To Major Kyd Superintendant at the Andamans.
Sir,We have received your Letters of the 20th and 30th of March.
We are sorry to observe that the situation of Port Cornwallis has proved so unfavourable to the Health of the Settlers, but as we entertain Hopes that the place will become more salubrious in proportion as it is cleared, and as our experience is at present insufficient to form a decided Opinion on this Subject, we shall wait with Anxiety your future Opinion and Report apon it.
In forming your Opinion on the probable Healthiness of the Situation you will discriminate as well as your experience admits how far the Causes which may be supposed to have had an Influence in this Respect are of a permanent Nature or of such as may be removed by Industry and exertion, and we recommend that in your future Report you attend to every Circumstance that may enable us to form an Opinion on the Eligibility of presenting (sic) the object for which the Station of Port Cornwallis was chosen.
Having consented to your proposition for visiting Prince of Wales Island in the Month of July or August next as scon as you may judge it convenient We send enclosed a Copy of our Resolutions, pointing out the several Objects of your Investigation there.
Such Articles of Supply for the Settlement as you may want will be furnished as usual by the Garrison Store Keeper on Indent, and the Adjutant of Fort William is instructed to perform the other Duties mentioned in your Letter for which and upon Consideration of the inadequacy of his Staff Allowances in general an addition has been made to them of .150 Rupees per month.
We have accepted Lieutenant Wells' Resignation of the Office of Provision and Store Keeper and confirm your Nomination of Ensign Stokoe to act therein from the first of next month until further Orders.
The Governor General having understood that Lieutenant Wells intends to prefer a specific Claim for extra Staff Allowance during the time he had Charge of the Settlement in your Absence we have for the present deferred coming to any Resolution on that head.
With respect to an encrease of your own Salary which you declare inadequate to the Absolute necessary Expences of your Situation, we have determined that you shall receive Twenty Rupees per Diem as an Allowance for your Table, and that it shall commence from the date of your last return and resuming the Superintendence at Port Cornwallis.
The Secretary will forward to you a list of Consignments by the Snow Cornwallis. We are, Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servants (Signed) Gov Gen! in Council.
Fort William the 21st April, 1704.
