The Bengal Government sanction the expenditure of 2,167 rupees for opening a coal mine in Assam and collecting coal there for the steam vessel Burrampooter.
Successful use of steam to destroy white ants and vermin on board the hulk Investigator - Government authorise the installation of a permanent steaming apparatus.
The sum of 600 rupees is advanced to Zulfikar Khan alias James Martin to enable him to travel from Lucknow to Calcutta to give evidence in the case between the Bengal Government and the executors of the late General Claude Martin.
The sum of 1,000 rupees is paid to Lieutenant Archibald Irvine of the Bengal Engineers for his initial work on a plan of the City of Allahabad - the plan is completed by James Prinsep.