Extracts from the records relating to the history of the Straits Settlements from the foundation of Penang by Francis Light in 1786, up to the present date - expense of maintaining the Straits Settlements as a separate Presidency.
Request of Captain John Nicoll Robert Campbell, the 2nd Assistant to the Envoy in Persia, to receive a deputation allowance and to be reimbursed the expenses incurred by him on his march to Teheran - question of the salary drawn by Sir Henry Willock, the Chargé d'Affaires in Persia.
On the recommendation of Captain John Purton the Madras Government decide not to repair the fort at Bangalore - a military depôt is to be established there instead.