Major James Delamain is appointed Principal Civil Assistant in Nimar and receives charge of Sindhia's transferred parganas - on promotion to Lieut Colonel he is allowed to retain his post but is redesignated a Political Agent.
Further papers regarding the Merwara Local Corps - establishment of law and order among the Mer tribesmen - decision that the Corps should be recruited primarily from the Mer population.
The Bengal Government reject the request of Guru Charn Malik, a wealthy inhabitant of Calcutta, to be allowed to have servants clad in the Company's livery.
The young Nawab Nazim of Bengal [Mubarak Ali Khan] is severely admonished by the Agent at Murshidabad [William Henry Leslie Melville] on account of his dissolute and indolent conduct.