Papers regarding the Tanjore Debt (Vol 2) - measures taken to give effect to the Court of Directors' orders of 29 May 1839 regarding 122 petty claims rejected by the late Tanjore Commissioners
Papers regarding Rampur State - question whether Rampur should be resumed either by the British Government or the Oudh Government after the death of the present Nawab [Ahmad Ali Khan] - memoranda on the case, prepared at East India House by Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, etc
Measures taken to give effect to the Court of Directors' orders regarding the taking of tidal observations on the coasts of India and the Straits Settlements
Bengal Government provide the Resident at Ava [Colonel Richard Benson] with information regarding the port duties levied at Calcutta upon Burmese vessels (includes, on p 19, a return of Burmese vessels entered at the Customs House, Calcutta, between 1829-38)
Report of Lieutenant Cairns Threshie upon the timber resources of Malabar (with associated correspondence) (the report dated 7 May 1838 is on pp 4-24). Note: this Collection is a partial duplicate of 70303A
Papers regarding the survey of the Gulf of Mannar and the opening of the Pamban Channel (includes return of shipping using the Pamban Channel, 1837-Jul 1839, and 'Plan of the Canal through the Reefs at Pamban, MS, coloured, scale 1''=100 feet)
Papers regarding the surveys undertaken by Captain Richard Lloyd I.N. during the South West Monsoon of 1838 - inadequacy of the existing surveys of the Rangoon river and the mouths of the Irrawaddy - progress of the survey of the sea face of the Sundarbans - retention of Lloyd's services as Offic...