Implementation of Lieutenant John Augustus Schalch's plan for constructing a canal between the Hooghly and the Ganges - purchase of a steam engine for excavation work - iron suspension bridge to be built over Tolly's Nala etc. (includes drawings of the Hooghly river bed, p 472) Vol 1.
An amnesty is granted to imprisoned debtors on the occasion of King George IV's birthday, 23 April 1822, with the exception of those guilty of serious frauds.