Excerpt from Diary and Consultation Book (Public Department), 1753, Vol. 81: With an Introduction and Notes The Public Consultations rarely mention the military events of the year. But they forcibly depict the conditions caused by warfare. As in theprevious year there was. In 1753 the same dearth of investments, the same, difficulty of getting the merchants and weavers to fulfil their contracts3, the same com plaints from the farmers of revenue about the. Losses sustained at the hands of the enemy4 and even more than the same feverish activity on the part of the Government to supply the army with men, munitions and money. The severest strain was put on the Company's finances and to relax it many expedients were devised and' several reforms. Introduced. The vear also witnessed the re - estab lishment of the Mayor's Court and other Courts; of Justice and a thorough enquiry into the affairs of the subordinate settlement of Sumatra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.