Abstract:
The papers submitted to me for classification vr6re the*
supplementary miscellaneous “ Old Records ” enumerated
in the Statistics and Commerce Departmental List,
No. 2,897, and in the Lists furnished by the other Departments
of this Office. They have been re-arranged in the
“ Record Rooms ” in the order of the amended List prefixed*
to this Report; my object .in the re-arrangement of
them having been to keep the “ Factory Records,” and
all the documents relating to the Company’s Factories,
distinct from the other “ Old Records ” of the Company.
All these papers have now therefore been classified under
the following five divisions:—
First, the Court Minutes, Committee Minutes, and
papers relating to the Legal Affairs of the Company, and
to Miscellaneous Matters connected ^ith the Company;
Second, the papers -relating to the Shipping, Trading,
and General Affairs of the Company;
) Third,* the papers concerning the Foreign Relations of
!he Company, many of which it is difficult to really
iep&rate from JFactory Records, the Company’$ relations
with Japan and China, with the *Dutch in the east, and
with Persia, having chiefly been in connection with their
factories in those countries
