A life pension of 300 rupees 'per mensem' is granted to Manak-u-Nisa, widow of the late Jagirdar of Hodal [Muhammad Khan Afridi] whose estate was resumed at his death in 1813
Proposal of Mr Huxham of Travancore and Dr Robert Wight of the Madras Medical Service that Brazil-wood should be introduced to India as an article of commerce - Madras Government request the Court of Directors to procure a consignment of the requisite seeds from HM Consul in Rio de Janeiro
Papers regarding the enactment of India Act 15 of 1839 prohibiting the importation of foreign sugar into the ports of the Madras Presidency (includes statistics of the sugar trade in the Madras Presidency, 1832-37, pp 10-13, 16-19, also a printed copy of the Act, pp 45-49)
Papers regarding the enactment of India Act 22 of 1839 allowing persons who appear in HM courts on criminal charges the services of counsel and access to depositions (includes a printed copy of the Act, on pp 75-76)
Various references or proposed references to the Indian Law Commission, viz:- definition of the Bombay law of treason - slavery in Assam - agricultural slavery in Malabar - new civil rules of practice in the courts of the Sabathu Political Agency - wrongful detention of ships'registers (includes,...
Papers regarding the ex-Peshwa of Poona [Baji Rao] and the Bithur Commissionership - extra charges of the Bithur Establishment - question of the non-hereditary tenure of the Deccan villages held by Baji Rao's adherents - recommendation of the Government of India that the jagirs held by Ramchandar...
Relinquishment by the Nawab of Rampur [Ahmad Ali Khan] of his customs collections on the Ramganga river - pressure brought to bear on the Oudh Zemindars to cease exacting tolls on the trade of the Garha river
Query of the Agent to the Governor General at Bareilly [James Davidson] regarding the increase in pension awarded to Amina Begam, widow of Nawab Muhammad Yar Khan
Offer made by Diwan Bahadur Singh, a zemindar of the Rohilkhand Division, to contribute 10,000 rupees towards the building of a bridge over the Juai Nadi near Bareilly - the NWP Government confer a khilat of honour on him in recognition of his public-spiritedness