Exchange of letters between the Society for promoting the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax in British India, and the EIC Court of Directors - the Society forward to the Court a short statement of their proceedings
Papers regarding the Kingdom of Ava and the Ava Residency - question regarding the circulation of the Company's coinage in Burma - grant of furlough to the Resident at Ava [Lieut Colonel Henry Burney] - alleged infringements of the rule which governed the removal of Captain George Burney as Assis...
Papers relating to Arakan Province - report of the Commissioner of Arakan [Captain Archibald Bogle] on the land and water communications between Combermere Bay and the Burmese Frontier, pp 5-38 (with associated correspondence)
Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
Scope & Content:
Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
Accidental death, on 14 Jan 1838, of Damadar Patgherri, while superintending the building of a military stockade at Balukang on the Darrang frontier - the land held by him is granted rent-free for life to his family
Further proceedings regarding Chandra Kanta, ex-Raja of Assam - rejection of his claim to an increase in pension - remission of the remaining 3000 rupees of his debt - grant of small pensions to two of his dependents, etc
Papers regarding Cooch Behar State - failure of the Raja [Harendra Narayan] to discharge the arrears of tribute - question whether his Rangpur Zemindaries should be sequestrated, etc
Papers relating to Bhutan - release on security of the seven persons charged with involvement in the attack on Sidli - Government order Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton's account of his mission to Bhutan to be printed
Further papers regarding the hostile incursions of Dafla and Bhotia tribesmen in the Balipara Frontier Tract, and their claims to blackmail - kidnapping of some ryots in British India by Aka tribesmen - strengthening of the Assam Sibandi Corps as a defensive measure, etc. (includes on pp 22-23, a...
Government of India pass the contingent bills of the Upper Assam Political Agency for May-Jul 1838, also a bill for half the expenses of Ensign Thomas Brodie's deputation to the Bhutan Frontier
