Papers regarding Oudh, Vol 40(5) - request of Captain William M.Hearsey to be appointed commandant of a police battalion in Oudh (includes a statement of his previous services, on pp 5-8)
Papers regarding Oudh, Vol 40(7) - Government of India permit Malkah Jehan Begam, widow of a former King of Oudh [Muhammad Ali Shah] to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with 316 attendants
Papers regarding Oudh, Vol 40(10) - question of replacing the two churches at Lucknow which had been destroyed by the rebels - one church is to be built at the Civil Station immediately at an estimated cost of 30,000 rupees payable from the fines imposed on the city
Papers regarding Oudh, Vol 40(14) - pensions are awarded to the widow and three sons of Alexander Bryson, formerly a clerk in the Chief Engineer's office at Lucknow, who was killed during the siege of that city on 9 Jul 1857 (details of the family appear on p 5)
Papers regarding Burma - a sum of 1003 rupees, 14 annas, which had been embezzled from the Martaban revenues by a native official, is written off to 'profit and loss', the offender not having the means to make restitution
Mutiny papers relating to Oudh - deaths of various rebel chiefs in Nepal - questionable conduct of Tafazul Husain, formerly mir munshi to the Chief Commissioner of Oudh - concealment of arms by the Talukdars of Baijnath and Jagannath, etc.
Mutiny papers relating to Oudh - complaint of the Chief Commissioner of Oudh [Charles John Wingfield] regarding the unduly favourable treatment allegedly accorded to the rebel Muhammad Husain by Major General Sir James Hope Grant
Mutiny papers relating to Oudh - question of the treatment meted out to Oudh talukdars and other notables by British civil officers - case of Mehadi Husain, the rebel Nazim of Salon - presence of two European women with the Nana Sahib, etc.