Further papers regarding the deepening of the Pamban Channel to facilitate communication between India and Ceylon - proposal that an Indian Navy vessel should survey the Indian side of the Gulf of Mannar
Bengal Government forward to London a paper by Assistant Surgeon Julius Jeffreys entitled 'Reflections on the urgent need of useful operative knowledge on the part of the people of India and on the readiest means of enabling them to acquire it', also three essays of Jeffreys published under the '...
Sanction is given for the expenditure of 16,170 rupees on the restoration of the channel supplying the Maurandai Tank in Tinnevelly District also for 9391 rupees to be expended on the erection of a 9 arch bridge over the river Vellar at Nagore in Tanjore District
Sanction is given for improvements to be made to the town and harbour of Masulipatam at an estimated cost of 35,683 rupees (includes, on p 187, a ms map, coloured, showing the proposed drain and new head for the Chinnapur Canal, also, on pp 263, 314, black and white sketch drawings)
Sanction is given by the Madras Government for the excavation of a canal between the Budimeru and Kistna rivers and for the reconstruction of the Palleru channel