Disinclination of the late Nizam of Hyderabad [Afzal-ud-daula] to carry out the plan for disarming the inhabitants of Hyderabad city, a plan which he had originally recommended
Complaint of the Chief Commissioner, British Burma [Colonel Albert Fytche] regarding the high sum charged as messing allowance upon Government steamers - Government of India reject his renewed application for a sumptuary allowance
Proposal of the Chief Commissioner, British Burma (Colonel Albert Fytche] that a survey be undertaken of the territory between Toungoo in Burma and the Cambodia [Mekong] river, with a view to the eventual construction of a telegraph line to Western China - Government of India decline to comply with the proposal (includes sketch map of the area in question)
Papers regarding Bhutan - Government of India finally sanction the payment (with arrears) of the allowance due to the Bhutan Government under the Treaty of 1865 - two or three young Bhutanese Lamas to be educated at the Government School, Darjeeling - the Bhutanese envoy to reside at Darjeeling - Government of India to retain all the land taken from Bhutan in 1864
Further papers regarding the Burmese Prince Myengun and his followers - proceedings of the trial of the Prince's adherents in the Magistrate's Court, Rangoon - verdicts and sentencing
Grant of compassionate pensions to certain destitute numbers of the family of the late Sinappa, a landholder of Gadag in Dharwar District, who was executed for complicity in the Nargund rebellion of 1858 (includes a genealogical table of Sinappa's ancestors, on pp 6-7)
Papers regarding the Mysore Princes (descendants of Tipu Sultan and Haidar Ali) - memorial to the Viceroy of India from Sahibzadi Hussaini Begam, daughter of the late Shahzada Muhammad Azim-ud-din, claiming to be recognized as her father's sole heir (with associated correspondence)
Final settlement of the long-standing jurisdictional dispute between the Rao Raja of Alwar [Sheodan Singh] and the Raja of Nimrana [Bhim Sing] (a copy of the agreement entered into between Alwar and Nimrana appears on pp 7-8)