Petition from the Native merchants of Bombay for a refund of the difference between the new and the old passes for the free transit of opium from Malwa to Bombay, on the grounds that the price of the passes was enhanced without due notice, with proceedings of the Government of India connected wi...
Further proceedings on the Sugar Acts XV of 1839 and XI of 1842 with respect to the importation of foreign sugar into the Madras Presidency by land from any foreign State or settlement
Presentation of the Gold Medal of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Dwarkanath Tagore. Includes a copy of the address by W W Bird, President of the Council of India, to Dwarkanath Tagore and his reply.
Papers on the subject of the construction of a road for connecting the main road between Madras and Bombay. Includes estimates for constructing a road from Poona to Bijapur, and progress reports of the Bombay and Agra road from May to October 1842.
Papers regarding Act No.XII of 1843, An Act concerning the time at which and the language in which the decisions of the Judges in the Courts of the East India Company are to be written (includes a printed copy of the Act)
Proceedings reporting that an offer by Dr Buist to deliver a course of lectures to the junior officers of the Indian Navy had been accepted, and the necessary arrangements ordered for the purpose. The Proceedings include papers outlining the subjects to be covered in each lecture.
Papers regarding an assemblage of armed men on the frontier of the Province of Khandesh towards the close of the year 1841 got up in the name of a person giving himself out to be the ex-Raja of Nagpur, and the measures adopted for suppressing them; and control of Scindia's districts in Khandesh
Papers regarding a report by the Manager of Amreli in Kathiawar of a case of suttee [sati] committed by the widow of an inhabitant of Amreli named Prushnora Brahmin Suntookram Bhut