Papers regarding the survey of the timber forests in the Bombay Presidency and Malabar, - Captain Joseph Dacre Watson is appointed Conservator of the Malabar Forests - Captain Thomas Thatcher is appointed Inspector of the Dharampur Forests, etc. Vol 1.
Papers regarding the construction of new docks at Bombay - defects in the work completed under the superintendence of Captain Rawson Boddam Crozier - Captain William Cowper succeeds Captain Crozier as Engineer in charge.
Papers regarding the estate of Charles Frederick Pohle, a German surgeon in the service of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon, who died at Tuticorin in April 1797 (includes an inventory of the estate).
Report of the Finance Committee at Madras on the management of the Male Orphan Asylum/Roads Lottery - the Madras Government approve the joint proposal of Messrs Latour and Co and Messrs Lys, Satur and De Monte for establishing a more extensive lottery.
Papers regarding the Native Hospital and Poor Fund at Madras. Proposal of the Reverend Dr Richard Hall Kerr for establishing a Workhouse and Poorhouse.
Statement of the profits obtained from the Madras Government Press - the Select Committee of the Military Male Orphan Asylum are to be supplied with paper from the public stores for the use of the Press, upon payment of prime cost and charges.
The artist Thomas Hickey is employed to repair the portraits of King George III and Queen Charlotte which had hung for many years in the Garden House, Madras. His bill for the repairs is considered by the Madras Government to be exorbitant.