The Madras Government request the Bengal Government to send them a supply of oriental books for the use of Fort St George College (includes list of the books, pp 19-21).
George John Siddons, the Acting Resident at Fort Marlborough, is allowed to draw an extra allowance of half the difference between the salary of the Resident and the salary of the Head Assistant and Secretary.
Discovery of Minto's channel in the Hooghly river by Captain John Collie - the new channel is surveyed by the Marine Surveyor General Captain Charles Court and is considered to be more favourable to navigation than Thornhill's channel.
The Bengal Government make a further year's subscription of 800 rupees 'per mensem' to the Fund for Distressed Europeans (includes a list of the beneficiaries with a brief biographical note on each, pp 11-19).
The Bengal Government profess themselves dissatisfied with Major Charles Mouat's explanation for the delay in completing the mausoleum to Lord Cornwallis at Ghazipur - the extra allowance paid to Mouat on account of the mausoleum is discontinued.
The Bengal Government state that they are not yet in a position to forward to London a report on the timber specimens obtained by Robert Kyd in Goalpara.
Report on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency
Scope & Content:
Report by William Russell, the Superintendent General of Vaccination, on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency - extension of the practice to Persia and the East Indies (includes a return of the number of persons vaccinated in the Bengal Presidency in 1812, pp 42-43).