B. No. 8.

Extract of Bengal Secret Consultations, the 9th January, 1781.

The following letter from the Governor-General having been circulated, and the request therein made complied with, an order on the Treasury passed accordingly.

HONORABLE SIR AND SIRS,—­

Having had occasion to disburse the sum of three lacs of sicca rupees on account of secret services, which having been advanced from my own private cash, I request that the same may be repaid to me in the following manner:—­A bond to be granted me upon the terms of the second loan, bearing date from the 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees; a bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing date from the 1st October, for one lac of sicca rupees; a bond to be granted me upon the terms of the first loan, bearing date from the 2d October, for one lac of sicca rupees.

  I have the honor to be, &c., &c.,

    (Signed) WARREN HASTINGS.

  Fort William, 5th January, 1781.

B. No. 9.

An Account of Bonds granted to the Governor-General, from 1st January, 1779, to 31st May, 1782, with Interest paid or credited thereon.

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When paid into the |   Sum.   |   Date of Bond.  | Rate of Interest. 
Treasury.       |          |                  |
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|   CRs.   |                  |
23d Nov., 1780     | 1,74,000 | 23d Nov., 1780   | at 8 per cent.
15th Dec.          |   69,600 | 15th Dec.        |      Do.
15th Jan., 1781    | 1,16,000 | 1st Oct., 1780   |      Do. 
Do.          | 1,16,000 | 2d Do.           |      Do. 
Do.          | 1,16,000 | 1st Do.          |    4 per cent.
17th March         |   50,000 | 17th Mar., 1781  |      Do.
8th May, 1782      |   20,000 | 15th Sept., 1781 |    8 per cent. 
Do.          |   15,000 | 8th Dec., 1781   |      Do.
|----------|                  |
| 6,76,600 |                  |

There does not appear to have been any interest paid on the above bonds to 31st May, 1782, the last accounts received.  In the Interest Books, 1780-81, the last received, the Governor-General has credit for interest on the first six to April, 1781, to the amount of CRs. 21,964 12 8.

(Errors excepted.)

JOHN ANNIS,
Auditor of Indian Accounts.
EAST INDIA HOUSE, 5th June, 1783.

FOOTNOTES: 

[57] As the Appendixes originally printed with the foregoing Reports, and which consist chiefly of official documents, would have swelled this volume to an enormous size, it has been thought proper to omit them, with the exception of the first nine numbers of the Appendix B. to the Eleventh Report, the insertion of which has been judged necessary for the elucidation of the subject-matter of that Report.