Complaint from an inhabitant of Rajahmundry [Jagannath Rao] regarding the compulsory employment of coolies in that district without pay, and the alleged practice of withholding endorsed petitions from petitioners - observations of the Collector of Rajahmundry [Patrick Grant]
Report on an examination of the Tinnevelly pearl banks carried out between Nov 1836-Mar 1837 - Captain D Quintom, Supervisor of the Ceylon Pearl Banks is seconded to Tinnevelly to carry out a more detailed survey
Circulars on the cultivation of cotton and senna are sent by Dr Robert Wight to the Collectors of the Madras Presidency (printed copies of the circulars, dated 15 Apr 1837 and 22 May 1837, are to be found on pp 7-23) - correspondence between Wight and the Madras Chamber of Commerce
Measures taken to introduce cast iron ploughs of the American type to the Madras Presidency - Madras Government order 40 such ploughs to be supplied to each district and to the Nilgiri Hills, for distribution to native cultivators
Arrangements for giving effect to the suggestions of the Principal Collector of Kanara [Malcolm Lewin] for the promotion of trade between Kanara and Dharwar District
Refusal of the Toda tribesmen to accept the compensation offered to them by the Madras Government for the occupation of their lands in Ootacamund Cantonment
Further papers regarding Cochrane's Canal - the canal is placed under the control of the Madras Board of Revenue - establishment questions - estimates of repairs etc (includes, on pp 9-4, a memorandum on Cochrane's and Katapalli Canals and the Pulicat Lake by Charles Robert Cotton)
Suggestion of the Directors of the Indian Navy Fund that in the event of reductions in the Indian Navy the East India Company should assume the entire management of the Fund and guarantee the payment of existing pensions
