Surlish Petition Copies

Description

Seven folded sheets in a clerk’s careful copperplate, wrapped in a docket and tied with red tape. The docket is endorsed in a heavier, upright hand. Each sheet is a fair copy of a petition to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, the Company’s civil court of appeal, with the order made on it.

The Text

The docket: R. P. — Sudder. Copies per L. T. Below, in the same heavy hand: Seven. Dismissed unheard, every one. Enough to finish him.

No. 41 of 1813. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the brother of Sheikh Imam Baksh, sepoy, 12th Regt. N.I., for arrears of pay. The petitioner states that his brother went to the Baranagar bazaar on the 26th November 1812 with his full pay upon him, and was not seen again. Ordered: The regiment’s return, deserted, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 17 of 1813. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the daughter of Tulsi Ram, invalid sepoy, pensioned of the 9th Regt., for arrears of pension. The petitioner states that her father walked to the temple at Baranagar with an offering in March 1813, as he did every month, and did not come back. Ordered: No pension being payable to a pensioner who does not appear, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 88 of 1813. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the brother of Matadin Pande, sepoy, 67th Regt. N.I., for arrears of pay. The petitioner states that his brother feared the river duty and asked to exchange it, and went missing on the 14th September 1813. Ordered: The regiment’s return, deserted, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 102 of 1813. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the widow of Sheikh Karim Baksh, sepoy, 15th Regt. N.I., for the widow’s portion. The petitioner states that her husband was found at Cossipore on the 27th November 1813 with the mark of a cord upon the throat and the tongue protruded. Ordered: The regiment’s return, died of a fit, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 6 of 1814. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the father of Bishnath Upadhya, sepoy, 9th Regt. N.I., for arrears of pay. The petitioner states that his son, a Brahmin of strict observance, went missing on the 25th December 1813 and would not have deserted upon a holy day. Ordered: The regiment’s return, deserted, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 54 of 1814. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the wife of Amir Khan, sepoy, 30th Regt. N.I., for arrears of pay. The petitioner states that her husband went to meet a man about a debt on the 30th March 1814 and named no man, and has not been seen since. Ordered: The regiment’s return, deserted, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

No. 71 of 1814. Sudder Dewanny Adawlut. Petition of the brother of Fateh Bahadur, sepoy, 15th Regt. N.I., for arrears of pay. The petitioner states that his brother was last seen at the Baranagar bazaar on the 28th May 1814 in the company of two men not of his corps, who watched and did not buy. Ordered: The regiment’s return, deserted, being conclusive, the petition is dismissed. R. P.

Related

• People: Hawthorne Surlish kept them. Roderick Pelham signed the orders.