Papers regarding a statement received from the Honourable Company's Astronomer on the means adopted for establishing a principal tidal and meteorological station at Cochin, and a bill for contingent charges connected therewith
Applications from the Governments of Madras and Bombay for Admiralty jurisdiction being conferred on the mofussil courts at those Presidencies for the punishment of offences committed at sea, and opinions of the Judges of the Supreme Court and of the Acting Advocate General of Bengal concerning t...
Recommendation by the Law Commissioners that Commissions of Vice Admiralty be obtained for all places within the limits of the East India Company's Charter where there is a Court of Admiralty and where no Vice Admiralty Commission exists
Papers regarding charts of the China Seas, published under the authority of the Spanish Government at Madrid in 1840, with a recommendation that the charts be placed in the hands of the Company's Hydrographer with a view to the insertion of the dangers not marked in the English charts
Enlargement of the Establishment of the Governor General's Body Guard and reduction in the strength of Regiments of Native Infantry of the three Presidencies (includes former correspondence relating to the Body Guard, 1804-1839)
Correspondence with Major Oliphant relative to a Partnership Deed having for its object a trading speculation executed by him on behalf of his son, James Oliphant, a minor, with the late Captain Thomas Bayles, Madras Superintendent of the American Cotton Planters