Papers regarding the enactment of India Act 25 of 1838 extending to British India the provisions of Act 1 Victoria, ch. 26, amending the laws regarding wills and administrations, (a copy of Act 25 appears on p 54-68)
Proposal of the Magistrate of Farrukhabad [Francis Horsley Robinson] that village communities should be collectively responsible in penal damages for plunder committed by riotous mobs in their neighbourhood
Bengal Government are unable to meet the request of the Bombay Government for a supply of the cochineal insect but they inform Bombay that the Agent at the Cape of Good Hope could probably obtain a supply for them through the good offices of Baron Ludwig
Bengal Government make a conditional grant of a piece of land in Tank Square, Calcutta, for the erection of a building to be known as 'the Metcalfe Library' in commemoration of Sir Charles Metcalfe - the curators of the Calcutta Public Library agree to deposit their books there (includes, on pp 1...
The final decision whether to erect an iron suspension bridge or a wooden bridge at Singapore is postponed until a detailed report can be made by a qualified engineer officer (includes sketches of the proposed suspension bridge, on pp 30-31)
The Bengal Government subscribe for 50 copies of a publication, in the original Arabic, of volume 1 of the 'Alif Laila' ('Arabian Nights Entertainments') edited by William Hay Macnaghten - they also subscribe for 40 copies of a translation of volume 1 by Henry Torrens
Captain James Roxburgh is permitted to erect a building at his own expense over the memorial to his father Dr William Roxburgh erected in 1822 in the Calcutta Botanic Garden
Introduction of vaccination into the Eastern Settlements (Penang, Singapore, Malacca) - appointment of five vaccinators, four on a salary of 20 rupees 'per mensem', the fifth on a salary of 16 rupees 'per mensem'
Bengal Government inform the Bombay Government that they are unable immediately to meet their request for specimens of 'Otaheite' ('Tahiti') sugar-cane but that specimens will be procured from the Jubbulpore plantation