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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY. 179
land and India was arranged, which came into operation from
January in the following year. The steamships of the Indian
Navy were to continue the conveyance of one mail a month
from Suez to Bombay, whence it was to be distributed over the
three Presidencies, and the second mail was to be conveyed
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company from Suez to
Madras and Calcutta, dropping Bombay letters, and also a mail
for the Straits Settlements and China, at Galle. For this latter
service, including both the Calcutta and China lines, the Penin
sular and Oriental Company were to receive £160,000 per
annum, towards which the Company contributed ^£20.000 a-year
and relinquished the annual grant of .£50,000 voted by Parlia
ment for the promotion of steam navigation in the East.
On the 26th of October, 1844, Sir Robert Oliver, under special
permission of the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , left the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. for
England on one year s leave, the state of his health necessitating
a surgical operation. On his departure the Governor in Council
appointed Captain John Pepper, who had been Indian Navy
Storekeeper since the death of Captain Simpson, from the 31st
of January, 1844, to act as Superintendent of the Indian Navy *
and Commander H. B. Lynch, who had officiated temporarily as
assistant to Sir Robert Oliver, to be permanent Assistant-
Superintendent. In April, 1845, Captain Pepper was compelled
to proceed to England on sick leave, when Commander H B
Lynch^was appointed Acting-Superintendent, with Commander
H. O. Boulderson as his assistant.
During portions of the years 1844-45, the steam frigates
Auckland, Commander Carless, 6 Sesostris,' Commander Young,
and Akbar, Lieutenant Leeds, and other ships, were employed
in carrying troops to Vingorla, to assist in quelling the insur-
rection in the Southern Mahratta country, and in bringing
them back to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. on its suppression. Colonel ( b
now
of such SUCh list; P romotion bein g ma ^e in the room
« n ° . cei \/ rom date of his so quitting actual service."
rJn. P iT I?* succeede <i to the senior list, vice Captain Crawford
deceased, from the 10th of November, 1843/' ^rawiora,
The following Qeneral Order of importance was also issued this year
" Bombay Castle, September 3, 1844.
The following extract. Para. 3, from a letter from the Hon the Court of
informTtlon " W th ^ f Fe ^ uar y last . No - ^ is published for general
a ' , , I ' e§ard to the g en eral question raised by your Militarv
^ H t rep0rfc of the 15th of March . 1843, we are of opinion S
to brXwed co m pL B atra^undV a and tfte^a"
ranUnfbe Army." ame ^ 086 ^ b y th e ^ak for officers of corresponding
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