Rejection of a proposal of Lieutenants Thomas Munro and William Macleod, Captain Alexander Read's Assistants in the Baramahal Country, to rent a tract of land at Karagur, for the purpose of introducing and extending the cultivation of cotton, sugar and indigo.
Alexander Beatson appointed to continue Michael Topping's irrigation survey of the Kistna and Godavari rivers. John Goldingham appointed to succeed Topping as Astronomer and Marine Surveyor.