Bundle of property and legal documents from the Amalgamated Tea Estates Co Ltd re: 'Lebong and Mineral Spring Estates Nos.1-25'

• Reference:GB 248 UGD 091/2/5/2/1/43
• Dates of Creation:1863-1897
• Physical Description:
  1 bundle

• Scope and Content

  Including:

  • (1) 15 Sep 1865 - The Lebong & Minchu (sic) Tea Co Ltd to the Land Mortgage Bank of India Ltd: re-mortgage of the company's tea gardens at Darjeeling [No.1];
  • (2) Oct 1868 - Pattah for 30 years to C H Harnes, Esq. part of (contd) 'Charles Field', Darjeeling [No.2a];
  • (3) 29 Apr 1863 - Article of agreement between the Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd and Robert Charles Atkinson, Esq. (very fragile) [No.4];
  • (4) May 1863 - Copy of will of R C Atkinson [No.5];
  • (5) 27 May 1863 - Conveyance, Elizabeth Atkinson and the Lebong & Minchu [No.6];
  • (6) 6 Nov 1863 - Bill of sale from G Archer to E Atkinson [No.7];
  • (7) 6 Nov 1863 - Mortgage [transfer] E Atkinson to G Archer [No.8];
  • (8) 24 Nov 1864 - Conveyance, Elizabeth Murphy and Francis Joseph Murphy, George Archer and Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd [No.9];
  • (9) 18 Aug 1863 - Articles of association, Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd, Calcutta [No.10];
  • (10) 10 Jun 1865 - Copy notice, meeting of shareholders Copy minutes of meeting [Nos.11 and 12] Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd;
  • (11) 5 Jun 1865 - Copy notice of meeting of shareholders and copy minutes of meeting [Nos.13 and 14] Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd;
  • (12) 27 Jul 1865 - Copy extract from Register of Joint Stock Companies [No.15];
  • (13) Mar 1865 - Application form B for mortgage on Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd gardens, Darjeeling [No.16];
  • (14) 14 Apr 1866 - Receipt for Rs 20,000 from Mortgage Bank of India to directors, Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd [No.17];
  • (15) 16 Jun 1869 - Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd [in liquidation] to the Land Mortgage Bank of India, conveyance of the [ ] of redemption in the company's tea gardens at Darjeeling [18];
  • (16) 5 Feb 1867 - Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd to Land Mortgage Bank of India Ltd - further charge and assignment of tea crops [No.19];
  • (17) 22 Feb 1872 - Receipt for Rs 1300;
  • (18) 13 Apr 1866 - Letter to Land Mortgage Bank of India from Secretary, Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd re: balance of money [Wrapper marked '21 Moondakootee' continuation of business above re: Lebong & Mineral Spring];
  • (19) 5 Sep 1883 - 2 sketch maps (1) showing location of Lebong abutting Maryland Estate (2) showing extent of estate under tea by R Hawick [No.22];
  • (20) 13 Feb 1869 - Order of the High Court appointing A C Gale as official liquidator, Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd [No.23];
  • (21) 15 Jun 1885 - Authenticated copy of Deputy Collector of Darjeeling's order re: boundary dispute petition of Shawsher Ali whose land abuts the freehold property of Lebong & Minchu Tea Co Ltd garden [No.24];
  • (22) Finlay Muir & Co, Mineral Spring, 4 maps, including:
    • (i) n.d. - Rough map showing acreage [fragile];
    • (ii) 1897 - Sketch map, Mineral Spring (incorp. Charlesfield);
    • (iii) Apr 1881 - Tracing, part of Mineral Spring Tea Estate showing area under cultivation and Government Forest Reserve, etc.;
    • (iv) n.d. - Map showing ownership and cultivation of Mineral Spring Tea Estate. 4 inches to 1 mile scale, colour.