Report by Thomas Glanville Taylor, the Company's Astronmer at Madras, on his administration of the Madras Observatory between Sep 1830-Aug 1831 - his appointment to Bengal to assist in the Great Trigonometrical Survey
Boundary dispute between Zemindars of Bijlipur in Allahabad District and those in the neighbouring district of Partabgarh in Oudh - claim of the Bijlipur Zemindars to compensation for loss of crops in 1809/10.
The request of Captain Charles Cowles, the Port Master at Diamond Point, that his salary be increased to compensate for the reduction in mooring fees is rejected by the Bengal Government, but they permit him to cultivate the land within the harbour band - a subsequent request from Cowles and Capt...
Question whether the Governor General or the Commander in Chief should have the right to appoint the Second in Command of a Local Corps, where that office may involve civil or political duties.
Enactment by the Bengal Government of Regulation 4 of 1829 directing that no Special Commissioner shall review any case in which he was the judge of first instance, and exempting suits pending before the Sadr Diwani Adalat from the operation of Regulation 1 of 1829, section 10, clause 2.
Papers regarding a case of 'Jauhar' (self-sacrifice) by three Brahmin brothers and their families - 16 persons in all - who burnt themselves to death in the village of Kari, Thana Kishanpur, Fatehpur District, on 26 Feb 1830 - the mass suicide arose out of a quarrel between the three brothers and...
Papers regarding a serious affray which took place on 19 August 1830 between the inhabitants of Karnawal village belonging to the Begam Samru and those of Narangpur village in Meerut District - measures taken by the Magistrate of Meerut, Richard Hastings Scott, to restore order and to settle the ...
The Bengal Government decline to comply with the request of the Reverend Dr William Carey that Francis Lowth, a student at Fort William College, be permitted to study Bengali at Serampore College.