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November, 1902.]
THE ANDAMANS IN THE XVIIITH CENTURY.
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Agreed that an Order on the Treasury for Twenty Thousand Rapees payable half in Gold and half in Silver be issued in favor of the Superintendant who is now at the Presidency, to be dispatched to the Andamans by the first Opportunities that Offer.
Agreed that Major Kyd be informed that the Board approve of his having given the Command of the Dispath Brig to Mr John Roberts, and of bis Nomination of Mr E. Gardiner to be an officer of that Vessel with the pay of a Second, and that they comission ?] with the Superintendant to lay before them the Establishment he has fixed for her.
The Board approving of the Suggestion that Mr Roberts should indent on Mr Boswell's office for the pay and Provisions required for the Dispatch subsequent to the lat of December, to which Time the Expences of the Vessel were provided for by the Superintendant, observe that Indents so made out were passed at the last meeting.
Agreed with respect to the European Conviots sent from Bombay that the Superintendant be informed that the Governor General in Council approves of his having returned them to that Presidency for the Reasons Stated, and observes that Instructions sont upon the subject, some time ago, by this to the Bombay Government will prevent the Transportation of any more European Convicts from thence to the Andamans.
1795. - No. IV. Superintendant at the Andamans dated 23rd November. To Edward Hay Esqr. Secretary to Government.
Şir,- I have the pleasure to acquaint you for the information of Government, that the Honblo. Company's Snow Drake arrived here yesterday from Bengal with Convicts but I am very sorry to find that there is no provisions on Board for them. I have particularly to request that so great a number of people may never be sent to the Settlement without the necessary precantion being taken for their Subsistence for at least four Months, as in our situation at this time it may be the occasion of very serious distress to the Settlement. I have also to observe that there were fifty one Convicts landed instead of fifty as expressed by the list sent by the Magistrate of the 24 Pergunnahs and that there are many of them, Old, Sickly and of classes of Men very unfit for labor.
I have been honored with your letter of the 1st Instant, and shall rigidly attend to the Board's direction in sepding Review Rolls with the names of the different Classes of people paid by the Public at the Andamans. As I did not at all perceive the utility of their [these] papers, I have heretofore omitted sending them, conceiving the accumulation of all unnecessary Papers as an evil which the Board would have wished me to avoid.
I have now the pleasure of sending yon Review Rolls for the Months of September, October and November the Accounts of which were made up and sent a few days ago. I have the honor te be Sir Your most Obedient Humble Servant,
(Signed) A. Kyd. Port Cornwallis 23rd November 1794.
Ordered that Particular Attention be paid in future to the Supplies of Provisions for the Convicts sent to the Andamans, and that it be made the Rule that Subsistence shall be provided for them for at least four Months as the Superintendent recommends.
Ordered that the necessary directions in consequence be sont to the Garrison Store Keeper.
Ordered that an Extract from Major Kyd's letter, relating to the Number and State of the Convicts sent in the Drake be transmitted to the Judicial Department.
Ordered that Copies of the two last Paragraphs of Major Kyd's letter be forwarded to the Military Auditor Genern! with the Review Rolls to which they refer.
