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*Twenty Fourth Annual Report 1839 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wqwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 Google Books]
*Twenty Fifth Annual Report 1840 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wqwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 Google Books] History [http://books.google.com/books?id=wqwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7 page 7] in the 1840 report.
*A description of the marriage procedure applying, possibly c 1840s, from a novel "founded on fact": [https://archive.org/stream/nedfortescueorro00forruoft#page/181/mode/1up Page 181] ''Ned Fortescue; or, Roughing it through life; a story founded on fact'' by E W Forrest, late Her Majesty’s Indian Army, published 1869 Archive.org. The author appears to have been in India from the early 1840s. Somewhat similar accounts are also available in respect of the Lower Orphan School, Calcutta.
*Situation c 1853 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bZcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 Google Books]
*Situation c 1857 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sYEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA511 Google Books]