From Captain S. Richards to Brevet-Colonel S.G. Wheler requesting an investigation of the cartridge parts, 5 February 1857

From Captain S. Richards, Officiating Major of Brigade, to Brevet-Colonel S.G. Wheler, Commanding
        the 34th Regiment, Native Infantry, President, Court of Inquiry,--No. 29, dated Barrackpore,
        5th February 1857.

        I am directed by the Brigadier Commanding to request you will have the goodness to instruct the Court, of which you are nominated President in this day's station orders, thoroughly to investigate the subject of the objection to the paper forming a part of the new rifle cartridges, reported in the accompanying letter, No. 89, dated 4th February 1857, from Captain N. C. Boswell, Commanding the Left Wing, 2nd Regiment, Native (Grenadier) Infantry, to the Officiating Major of Brigade.

From: Selections from the Letters Despatches and other State Papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58.  Edited by George W. Forrest.  Calcutta: Military Department Press 1893, 13.