The Madras Government reject the request of Assistant Surgeon Stephen Parrock that certain instructions addressed to him as a Corresponding Member of the National Vaccine Establishment of London should be published at Madras.
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.
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.
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 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 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.