Papers relating to Arakan Province - report of the Commissioner of Arakan [Captain Archibald Bogle] on the land and water communications between Combermere Bay and the Burmese Frontier, pp 5-38 (with associated correspondence)
Accidental death, on 14 Jan 1838, of Damadar Patgherri, while superintending the building of a military stockade at Balukang on the Darrang frontier - the land held by him is granted rent-free for life to his family
Further papers regarding the ex-Raja of Jaintia [Rajendra Singh] - he finally accepts the pension of 500 rupees 'per mensem' which had been granted to him by Government - he is permitted to proceed from Sylhet to Jaintiapur to attend his sister's marriage ceremony
Outbreak of an insurrection among the Khasia tribesmen of the Mahram Country - measures taken by the Political Agent in the Khasi Hills [Major Frederick George Lister] to restore tranquillity
Papers relating to Bhutan - release on security of the seven persons charged with involvement in the attack on Sidli - Government order Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton's account of his mission to Bhutan to be printed
Government of India pass the contingent bills of the Upper Assam Political Agency for May-Jul 1838, also a bill for half the expenses of Ensign Thomas Brodie's deputation to the Bhutan Frontier
Papers regarding further inroads by the Nagas into Upper Cachar - opinions of various British officials on how best to deal with the menace - decision to create a temporary levy of 200 Cacharis for service in the Naga Hills, Vol 1
Government of India reject the claim of Rani Chandra Kala, one of the widows of the late Raja of Cachar [Govind Chandra] to certain property allegedly left by him
Papers regarding the Kingdom of Ava and the Ava Residency - question regarding the circulation of the Company's coinage in Burma - grant of furlough to the Resident at Ava [Lieut Colonel Henry Burney] - alleged infringements of the rule which governed the removal of Captain George Burney as Assis...
Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
Scope & Content:
Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
