Enactment of India Act 30 of 1838 authorising the establishment, at any civil station, of offices for the registration of deeds (includes a copy of the Act, on pp 58-60)
Abuses of the forced labour system in the Saugor and Narbada Territories - report by the Territorial Commissioner [Frederick John Shore] condemning the abuses - hie criticism of the conduct of Lieut Colonel William Robert Clayton Costley, etc
Referral of various matters to the Indian Law Commission, viz:- the slave trade between Bombay and the Persian Gulf and 'vice versa - cognizance of suits against Sirkar ryots in the Madras Presidency - question of the employment of unauthorized vakils in the courts of District Amins and Munsifs, ...
Postponement of the plan to erect two iron suspension bridges over the Bogapani and Birapani rivers in the Khasi Hills on the route from Sylhet to Gauhati
Question of the future supply of arms to the Nizam of Hyderabad after the completion of Captain Grindlay's present commission - decision that the arms should be supplied in future from the Fort William Arsenal [Supplement to 74876]
Enactment of India Act 28 of 1838 allowing the judges of HM courts in India to impose transportation as a punishment for perjury (includes a copy of the Act, on pp 57-58)
Enactment of India Act 8 of 1839 bringing the lapsed Jagir of Chinchni within the operation of the Bombay Regulations (a copy of the Act appears on pp 21-23)
The Bombay Government forward to the Government of India a copy of the report by the Bombay Medical Board on the state of the jails in the Bombay Presidency (the report, with appendices, is on pp 4-45)
Robert Wight writes (ff 4-12) to Government of Madras recommending convicts be employed as agricultural labourers on experimental farms. Wight notes inefficiency of existing tools used by labourers; proposes that prisoners work with European tools such as the wheelbarrow or the hoe. Recommends t...
