The Bengal Government decline to comply with the request of the Reverend Dr William Carey that Francis Lowth, a student at Fort William College, be permitted to study Bengali at Serampore College.
Complaints against the conduct of the Raja of Trengganu in North East Malaya - he is alleged to have murdered a Chinese merchant from Singapore and to have been involved in an art of piracy - question whether the Company should take retaliatory measures against him.
The jagirs in the northern part of Moradabad District, which had been resumed by Government from Ayin Khan and Turab Khan are restored to Yassin Khan and Nassim Khan, sons of Ayin Khan (includes crime statistics for the years 1818-22, 1824-29, pp 10-11)
The Madras Government on the advice of the Marine Board, reject the plan of Peter Lindeman for constructing a breakwater at Madras but they pay him 500 rupees for his work in constructing a model of the breakwater.
The expense of setting up a statue of Warren Hastings in the vestibule of the Calcutta Town Hall is defrayed by Government, following the failure of Messrs Palmer and Co. who had been entrusted with the public subscriptions (includes a small sketch of the inscription on the pedestal, p 65)
The Bengal Government decline to accede to a request of the Batavia Orphan Chamber that a sum of money held in the Malacca Orphan Chamber on behalf of Jan Willem Samuel Baumhauer, stepson of Lieutenant Schönermarck, be transferred from Malacca to Batavia.
Establishment of a second floating light at the tail end of Gaspar Sand in the entrance to the Hooghly River - erection of a light on a tripod at Middleton Point on Sagar Island.
Apprehension in Etawah District of a gang of Thags who had previously committed murders in Khandesh District - they are sent back to Khandesh for trial - considerable progress made in combatting Thagi in Central India, Vol 1.
Reports of Commander John Milligan Laws of H.M.S. Satellite on his surveys of the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal, ie. Arakan, Tenasserim, the Mergui Archipelago, etc. - his charts of Port Owen and Kyaukpyu are lithographed at Government expense.
Details of sections The item contains a title page and the following elements: extract of letter to the Court of Directors from the Government, 8 Mar 1831 extract of letter to the Government from the Court of Directors, 29 Sep 1830 extract of letter to Parker from Sir C. T. Metcalfe, in charge ...
