Survey of Prince of Wales Island and Province Wellesley by William Fletcher - he is granted the sum of 400 dollars for his services - division of Province Wellesley into four districts, each with its own police establishment (includes a rough sketch map p 8, and population statistics of Prye Dist...
Proposed survey of the straits of Malacca and the east coast of Sumatra - request of the Penang Government for the loan of surveying vessels from Bengal.
Measures adopted by the Penang Government for the suppression of piracy - arrival of the cruiser Nautilus from Bombay - question of the allowances to be paid to her officers and crew, etc.
Financial assistance rendered by the Penang Government to the Prince of Johanna [Anjouan] and his followers, who had suffered shipwreck - they are granted a passage to the Cape of Good Hope.
Captain E. Lucas of the Netherlands Navy is sent to Penang by the Governor of Malacca to enquire into the murder and piracy committed on board the Dutch brig Wilhelmina off the coast of Achin.
The Penang Government grant portions of land for agricultural purposes to the Reverend W.H. Medhurst and the Reverend Thomas Beighton of the London Missionary Society.