Alexander Beatson appointed to continue Michael Topping's irrigation survey of the Kistna and Godavari rivers. John Goldingham appointed to succeed Topping as Astronomer and Marine Surveyor.
Rejection of a proposal of Lieutenants Thomas Munro and William Macleod, Captain Alexander Read's Assistants in the Baramahal Country, to rent a tract of land at Karagur, for the purpose of introducing and extending the cultivation of cotton, sugar and indigo.