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.
The Bengal Government decline to accede to a request of the Batavia Orphan Chamber that a sum of money held in the Malacca Orphan Chamber on behalf of Jan Willem Samuel Baumhauer, stepson of Lieutenant Schönermarck, be transferred from Malacca to Batavia.
Reports of Commander John Milligan Laws of H.M.S. Satellite on his surveys of the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal, ie. Arakan, Tenasserim, the Mergui Archipelago, etc. - his charts of Port Owen and Kyaukpyu are lithographed at Government expense.
The expense of setting up a statue of Warren Hastings in the vestibule of the Calcutta Town Hall is defrayed by Government, following the failure of Messrs Palmer and Co. who had been entrusted with the public subscriptions (includes a small sketch of the inscription on the pedestal, p 65)
Details of sections The item contains a title page and the following elements: extract of letter to the Court of Directors from the Government, 8 Mar 1831 extract of letter to the Government from the Court of Directors, 29 Sep 1830 extract of letter to Parker from Sir C. T. Metcalfe, in charge ...
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...
Establishment of a second floating light at the tail end of Gaspar Sand in the entrance to the Hooghly River - erection of a light on a tripod at Middleton Point on Sagar Island.
Complaints against the conduct of the Raja of Trengganu in North East Malaya - he is alleged to have murdered a Chinese merchant from Singapore and to have been involved in an art of piracy - question whether the Company should take retaliatory measures against him.
