Discontinuation of the practice of transporting convicts from India to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land - request of the Government of Mauritius to be sent convicts or free labourers from India to work on road building and other public works
Papers regarding the promotion of cotton cultivation in the Bombay Presidency - shipment of a saw gin, ploughs etc to India on the Royal Sovereign - report of Dr Alexander Gibson on the cultivation of cotton etc. in the Deccan in the year 1839/40 - abandonment of their undertaking by the three Am...
Payments made by the Madras Government to Dutch Government pensioners in South India for the quarters Nov 1840-Jan 1841 and Feb-Apr 1841- repayment obtained from the Government of the Dutch East Indies (includes, on pp 8-25, 36-53, quarterly lists of the pensioners, with particulars)
Further papers regarding the Red Hills Railroad and Canal - cost of working the railroad found to be much higher than estimated - decision to cease operations for the time being (includes minutes of the Governor of Madras and Members of Council)
Further papers regarding the proposal of the Governor of French India [the Marquis de Saint Simon] that some of the smaller French territories be exchanged for land adjacent to the principal French settlement of Pondicherry
Request by the French Consul in Calcutta [Charles F Dumaine] for the surrender of a ship's cook called Bernard Claret, who had deserted from the French merchant ship Vischnow - opinion of the Attorney General of Bengal [Laurence Peel] as to the validity of Dumaine's request
Visit by the Governor of Bombay [Sir James Rivett Carnac] to the Indian Navy training ship Hastings on 11 Mar 1841 - his favourable report on the professional training received by the young Volunteers and on the instruction of native youths in steam engineering (includes, on pp 9-10, a list of th...
Death, on 1 Apr 1840, of G S C Van Haiften, the former Dutch Chief of Palakollu - half of his pension of 15 rupees 'per mensem' is continued to his 68 year old widow, on the understanding that it is not to be continued to her son after her death