Bombay Government request the Madras Government for information on the Patcat system of revenue assessment prevailing in the Madras Presidency (a memorandum on the system, compiled by the Madras Board of Revenue, appears on pp 11-25)
Proposed introduction of the cultivation of sugar-cane in the Madras Presidency - Madras Government obtain a supply of sugar-cane cuttings from Mauritius
Madras Government sanction the expenditure of 700 rupees in support of the Garudautsavam festival at Conjeeveram - the Madras Board of Revenue argues in favour of the subvention being continued - the Acting Collector of Chingleput [Alexander Fairlie Bruce] advocates its discontinuation
Letter from Lieut Colonel F A Calvert to the EIC Court of Directors recommending that the Court send out to India some specimens of the silk and glass embroidery manufactured by his firm - in his opinion they will find a ready market among the wealthier classes - dated, Osborne's Hotel, Adelphi, ...
Letter to East India House in London from the proprietors of Sir William Burnett's patent for a timber etc. preservative enquiring how they can ensure the protection of their patent in India - reply of the East India Company to the same
Arrangements connected with the revival of the office of Superintendent of Police for the Lower Provinces - appointment of Francis Curwen Smith as Superintendent, Vol 1
Arrangements connected with the revival of the office of Superintendent of Police for the Lower Provinces, Vol 2 - question of the Superintendent's office establishment, etc
Arrest at Madras of the master and crew of the native brig Maidin Bakhsh on a charge of kidnapping children from the Northern Circars with a view to selling them into slavery at Nagore - general question of the suppression of the slave trade on the Coromandel Coast (Vol 1)
Trial before the Madras Supreme Court of the master and crew of the Maidin Bakhsh on a charge of child kidnapping - they are acquitted on a technicality - report of a regular trade in children between Nagore and the Malay Archipelago (Vol 2)