Successful use of steam to destroy white ants and vermin on board the hulk Investigator - Government authorise the installation of a permanent steaming apparatus.
The Bengal Government authorize the construction of an experimental buoy under the direction of Captain Charles Cowles, Assistant Master Attendant - the buoy is to be tested as a possible replacement for the existing channel buoys.
The Bengal Government sanction the expenditure of 2,167 rupees for opening a coal mine in Assam and collecting coal there for the steam vessel Burrampooter.
The sum of 600 rupees is advanced to Zulfikar Khan alias James Martin to enable him to travel from Lucknow to Calcutta to give evidence in the case between the Bengal Government and the executors of the late General Claude Martin.
The Bengal Government decline the offer made by Lieutenant Colonel Godfrey Phipps Baker to sell them the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles' collection of maps and charts relating to Java and adjacent islands.
Establishment of an 'East Indian Colonization Fund' at Fatehgarh to promote the interests of the Eurasian Community - the Bengal Government, while not objecting to the aims of the Fund, refuses the Managers permission to establish a lottery.
Abolition in the Bengal Presidency of the practice whereby native inhabitants would make gifts of money or fruit when paying visits to public officials.
Papers regarding the administration of the Government Gazette Press, Calcutta - reinstatement of G.H.Huttman as Head Printer - appointment of Surgeon John Grant as Superintendent of the Press in succession to James Atkinson - question whether the Superintendent is directly responsible to the Beng...