Papers relating to the Petty State of Mandi (Punjab Hill States) - report on the State for the year 1859/60 by the Superintendent of the Trans-Sutlej States [Philip Sandys Melvill] - marriage of the Raja of Mandvi [Bije Sen] to the daughter of the Raja of Keonthal, etc.(includes returns of receipts and expenditures)
Papers relating to the Punjab - further papers regarding the case of Charles James Henry Richardes who was removed from the office of Deputy Commissioner of Panipat for improper conduct - a report on his work as Deputy Commissioner of Hamirpur is generally favourable to him but expreses certain reservations
Papers relating to Central India viz: 1) Mayne's Horse: removal from Mayne's Horse of Lieutenant Charles Adolphus De Kantzow and Lieutenant H E Ward - removal of Major Henry Otway Mayne as Commanding Officer - change of the regiment's name to Central India Horse 2) Narsinghgarh State: misconduct of the Raja of Narsinghgarh [Hanwant Singh] in sheltering rebels - deputation to the state of Major Alexander Lamotte McMullin
Papers relating to the Saugor and Narbada Territories - report on the Jubbulpore School of Industry for the year 1859 compiled by the Superintendent of the Thagi and Dacoity Department [Major Charles Robert West Hervey] (with accounts and associated correspondence)
Papers regarding the Cis-Sutlej States (Punjab) - decision of Government that the Raja of Jind should take precedence over the Raja of Nabha - conferment of sanads on the Maharaja of Patiala and the Rajas of Jind and Nabha (includes, on pp 13-19, a copy of the Patiala sanad with a schedule of the Patiala territories stating whether ancestral, acquired or feudatory)
Papers relating to the Punjab - proposal for the distribution of the jagir of the late Langar Khan of Sahiwal in Shahpur District - general question of the conditions under which jagirs are to be granted in future
Papers relating to the Punjab - question of the expediency of altering the rules of succesion to Sikh jagirs in favour of the principle of primogeniture
Government of India forward to London 6 printed copies of part 2 of selected papers relating to the grant of titles and honorary distinctions to native inhabitants and native Chiefs (the papers are not with the Collection)
Papers relating to Champaran District (Bihar) - Government of India decline to forward a complimentary letter from the Maharaja of Bettiah to Queen Victoria on the grounds that his rank does not entitle him to communicate directly with Her Majesty