Question whether Magistrates should hold circuit courts - question whether the office of Magistrate should be separated from that of Collector - reorganization of the Mofussil Police (includes, on pp 31-35, a printed copy of a circular sent by the Bengal Government on 27 Sep 1836 to all Commissio...
Reports of Lieutenant Edward Buckle, Civil Engineer of the First Division, relation to his proposals for improving the system of river navigation and irrigation from the Godavari and Kistna rivers (with associated correspondence) (includes plans and sketches of ditches, tanks, irrigation channels...
Madras Government grant the Collector of Rajahmundry [Patrick Grant] the sum of 600 rupees for the purpose of sorting and arranging the native records of Cocanada Cutcherry - they emphasize the necessity for all public records in the Madras Presidency to be properly listed and preserved
Papers regarding the assessment of the lands in the Nilgiri Hills occupied by private individuals - differentiation between lands occupied for building and lands used for agricultural purposes - concern of the Madras Government to protect the rights of the native inhabitants (Todas)
Further papers regarding the General Order issued by the Commander in Chief in India [General Sir Henry Fane] promoting ten colonels of H.M Service to the local rank of Major General - correspondence between the Madras Government and the Government of India, etc
Reform of the public works administration in the Madras Presidency - abolition of the office of Inspector General of Civil Estimates - the Chief Engineer to have charge of civil as well as military public works and to have a seat on the Board of Revenue, etc
Question of the implementation of the Court of Directors' orders of 2 Jun 1830 forbidding European NCOs and private soldiers to be employed in a civil capacity - exemption of soldiers employed as clerks in military offices - memorandum of the Military Security, Lient Colonel Edward Munday Wood, etc