Papers regarding the astronomical observations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey - Government of India authorise the Surveyor General [Lieut Colonel George Everest] to erect a temporary building, for the reception of his instruments, near the hill station of Hatipur, it being deemed advisable t...
Bengal Government authorise the Bengal Military Board to purchase 150 copies of Captain John Thomson's 'Essay on Suspension Bridges' the work to be distributed to officers of the Engineer Corps and Public Works Department at all three Presidencies - 6 copies are forwarded to the Court of Director...
Papers regarding the revenue administration of Tenasserim - general abandonment of the plan for a septennial settlement - reversion to annual assessments - experimental export of wood oil to Calcutta etc (includes, on p 109, a sketch showing the probable location of the coalfield discovered by Dr...
Papers regarding the progress of the Great Trigonometrical Survey - Lieutanants Andrew Scott Waugh and Thomas Renny complete their respective assignments - proposal of the Surveyor General [Lieut Colonel George Everest] to remeasure the Beder base line
Objections of the Bombay Government to the requirement of the Government of India that Government Law Officers should conduct prosecutions in the Supreme Court under the orders of the Judges of that Court (includes copy of India Act 22 of 1839, on pp 25-28)
Papers regarding the Bengal Military Orphan Fund - decision of Government that Assistant Surgeons who give up promotion shall be required to subscribe to the Fund as Surgeons are that the Archdeacon of Calcutta shall subscribe in the rank of Lieut Colonel
Further papers regarding the researches of Johann Wilhelm Helfer - murder of Dr Helfer by hostile natives in the Andaman Islands on 30 Jan 1840 - Bengal Government forward to London 20 copies of his third and fourth reports on Tenasserim (printed copies of the 3rd and 4th reports appear on pp 23-95)
Complaint of Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson of the British Military Detachment in Persia that he will be unjustly superseded in rank should Lieutenant Edward Patrick Lynch's promotion to local Major be of even date with his own