Concerns voiced by Messrs Spiers, Spears and Co of Amarapura regarding their claims against certain Burmese subjects - they request the British Resident at Ava [Colonel Richard Benson] to take care of their account books
Decision that a soldier who has an Asian great-grandparent but is otherwise of European descent will be regarded as a European soldier with respect to service and pension - case of Sergeant Rose of the Madras European Infantry
Proposed establishment of a steam ferry on the Hooghly river at Calcutta - favourable report by a committee of enquiry (includes, on p 79, a sketch, MS, coloured, of a section of the Hooghly between Hahertollah and Salkea Ghats and of a plan, scale 1"= 200 feet, of the passageway required for the...
Question whether the Abkari tax should be reimposed on certain lands on Bombay Island granted to the Lowji family in 1783 and 1821 - Bombay Government argue in favour of reimposition (includes, on pp 121-29, a memorial from the Lowji family to the EIC Court of Directors , dated 25 Jan 1840, with ...
Papers regarding Udaipur State - sati committed by the wives of the late Maharana, Jawan Singh - dismissal of the Chief Minister, Sher Singh - necessity for financial reform - proposed creation of a Meywar Bhil Corps etc
The sum of 1953 rupees to be expended on furnishing and erecting laterite posts with connecting horizontal palmira bars along part of the island esplanade and circular road round the statue of Sir Thomas Munro in Madras City
Question as to the legality of the importation into Calcutta of sugar refined in bond in England - opinion of the Advocate General of Bengal [Thomas E M Turton] etc
Madras Government purchase 50 copies each of two books by Captain John Back of the Madras Artillery, viz: a translation from the French of an elementary treatise on artillery, and a translation from the German of a book on the bayonet exercises practised by the Prussian Army - they forward 6 copi...
The Raja of Mysore [Krishna Raja Wodeyar] and some of his relatives and courtiers subscribe for 14 shares in the 'Fund for a Comprehensive Scheme of Steam Navigation between India and England'