Madras Government subscribe for 100 copies of a reprint of 'Carpenter's English Synonyms' with explanations in Telugu by B Subaroyalu, at a cost of 3 rupees per copy
Report (printed) of the Sub-Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce appointed to obtain information respecting the prospects for establishing a steam communication between Bombay and Ceylon, dated Bombay, 1 Aug 1839 (with appendices and associated correspondence)
Government of India sanction the expenditure by the Bombay Government of 717 rupees 8 annas 'per annum' to keep the floating light vessel moored at the sunken rock in Bombay Harbour throughout the year
Papers regarding the Kanir Bhil Agency - 295 rupees advanced as 'taqqavi' to distressed Bhil cultivators on account of the failure of the monsoon rains (a list showing the distribution of the 'taqqavi' to the villages in the Chalisgaon and Bargaon Talukas appears on pp 8-9)
Further proceedings regarding the lapsed estate of Nipani - question of the provision to be made for the dependents and employees of the late Nipanikar - proposed exchange of Nipani villages for villages in Satara and Aundh (includes, on p 68, a MS coloured map showing Nipani in relation to neigh...
Madras Government sanction bills for 1301 and 2528 rupees, the costs of printing the first and second volumes of John Carnac Morris's 'English-Telugu Dictionary'
At the request of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Madras Government donate 5000 rupees from the Wooley Fund to the Vepery Mission Grammar School, the donation to be used to provide a scholarship for European children of distressed parents
Decision that those of the African youths brought to Bombay by Captain Hawkins who have not embraced either Catholicism or Islam should receive instruction at Bombay from the Reverend William Kew Fletcher with a view to their admission to the Church of England
Madras Government donate 500 rupees from the Wooley Fund to the Madras Protestant Charity School, the money to be applied to the maintenance and education of the children of distressed Europeans
Madras Government forward to the Court of Directors one copy each of a variety of books in English and the vernacular languages published in the Madras Presidency (lists of the books appear on pp 10-29 and 35)