Miscellaneous matters relating to the Indian Legislative Department 1) Punishment of the crime of knowingly receiving stolen property 2) Question of translating difficult terms of English law into the vernacular languages 3) Proposal to publish the Bengali Government Gazette in the Military Orp...
Bengal Government approve of certain suggestions made by Lieut Colonel Joseph Orchard for equipping and clothing the 1st Bengal European Light Infantry, with the exception of his suggestion that a complete set of arms and accoutrements should be obtained from Europe - they sanction a rifle compan...
Experiment in training elephants, caught in Southern India, for work in the Madras Army Commissariat Department - the experiment is judged to be a success (includes lists of captured elephants, with particulars, pp 24-27, 61)
Recommendation of Dr Robert Wight that the cultivation of the Philippine Islands mulberry plant be introduced to the Madras Presidency - Madras Board of Revenue support his proposal
Lieutenant John Ouchterlony of the Madras Engineers is allowed the services of a small detachment of Madras Sappers and Miners to assist him in his researches into the copper deposits of Nellore, Cuddapah and Guntur Districts
Successful outcome of the experiment of using camels as draught animals for field artillery - decision that Lieut Colonel Peter Lawrie Pew should be employed in equipping another light field battery with camels
Correspondence of the Madras Government with the Governments of Ceylon and India regarding the request of Ceylon merchants to be allowed a drawback of the export duty imposed on cotton exported from Tuticorin to Colombo but subsequently reshipped to England
Correspondence between the Madras Board of Revenue and the Madras Government regarding the holding of lands by Europeans, with special reference to the case of Mr Vigie in South Arcot District
Madras Government inform the EIC Court of Directors that the experiment of instructing the natives of Madura District in the art of weaving in the European style and in the use of the fly shuttle has not been attended by success, chiefly owing to the incompetence of the European instructors