Reports on the operation of the Redhills-Madras Railroad and Canal - question whether the railroad should be extended to Madras in place of the present canal or whether a canal should be substituted for the entire length of railway
Report by a committee of Bengal Army Engineer officers on the portable telescope boats constructed by Lieutenant Thomas Cook RN and shipped out to India on the Repulse (with associated correspondence)
Papers regarding the medals proposed to be granted by the King of Kabul [Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk] to the officers and soldiers of the Company's and Queen's Armies who served at the capture of Ghazni (23 Jul 1839) - Government of India request permission from the Court of Directors to distribute the me...
Government of India inform the EIC Court of Directors that no officer has as yet been appointed to take charge of the magnetical observatory at Aden, many of the instruments that were intended for the observatory having been damaged on the voyage out
Seven boys of the Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum are at their own request sent to New South Wales to be apprenticed unde the Government of that colony - the Madras Government provides them with a passage to Sydney (includes, on p 30, a list of the seven boys, giving age, names of parents and ...
Proposed mental health institution at the Madras Monegar Choultry
Scope & Content:
Madras Government donate 2000 rupees to the Monegar Choultry (Native Infirmary) which is in need of extra funds - proposal for the erection of an "Idiot Hospital" as an extension of the Choultry (includes, on pp 38-53, financial statements of the Monegar Choultry for 1838/39, and returns of patie...