The Madras Government purchase the copyright of Captain John Warren's dissertations on the solar time of the Hindus of Southern India and on the lunar time of the Mohammedans, for the sum of 500 pagodas.
The Madras Government support the proposal of Dr Henry Harris of the Madras Medical Board to compile a dictionary of the Hindustani language of Southern India - he is advanced certain sums to meet debts for printing materials etc. sent from England.
The Abbé Jean Dub ois' manuscript account of the 'Customs and Manners of the Hindus' is returned to him for revision - the Council of Fort St George College are authorised to procure the Abbé's work on the 'Ethics of the Hindus' and his dictionary of the Kanarese language.
The copyright of Cha dembala Vadiar's Tamil translation of a work on Hindu Law is purchased by Government for 1000 pagodas to be expended on the erection of a choultry on the inland road between Madras and Trichinopoly and a grant of land rent free for the choultry's support.
The Madras Government sanction the expenses of the public funeral of Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, amounting to 462 pagodas - a monument is to be erected to his memory in St Mary's Church, Madras.
Extension of Monegar Choultry; construction of leper hospital
Scope & Content:
The Managers of the Monegar Choultry are authorised to rebuild and enlarge the hospital attached to it - sanction is given for the erection of a separate Leper Hospital.
At the request of the Bengal Government the Madras Government direct that Lieut Colonel Colin Mackenzie's correspondence in connection with his History of Java, be exempted from postage.