The Madras Government sanction the expenditure of 10,913 rupees for the improvement of roads and construction of bridges in Canara - Captain Christian Leonard Nelthropp of the Madras Pioneers is appointed to supervise these improvements.
Favourable report on the produce of the Tinnevelly pearl fishery in 1818 - claim of the Collector of Tinnevelly, John Cotton, to a commission on the net proceeds of the fishery.