Minutes of Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General and Commander in Chief, on the composition of the army of India and his opinions as to reorganisation: III/1
Copy of letter from Lord Auckland, Governor General, to Sir Henry Fane, Commander-in-Chief, in answer to a proposal from the latter to brigade the European regiments together, and strongly dissenting from this proposal: III/4
A memorandum headed "Notes on Afghanistan Affairs" by (?), a member of the Political and Military Committee of the East India Company, giving an appreciation of the situation resulting from the recent disaster in Afghanistan and arguing against the despatch of a second expedition into that countr...
Copy of General Orders by the Governor-General of India in Council, concerning the eligibility of officers to hold the appointments of Adjutant-General, Quarter-Master General, Military Auditor General and Commissary General, their deputies and assistants: III/3
Nine papers relating to the appointment of a military Auditor General in succession to the late Colonel Imlach and the selection of Colonel J. A. P. Macgregor of the 22nd Regiment N.I. to fill the vacancy: III/2
Copy of minute of the Governor-General on punishment in the army in India and the effects of the abolition of flogging, and strongly dissenting from any proposal for its reinstatement: III/12
Copy of a minute by the Governor-General on the subject of patronage, with reference to nominations to appointments, made by the Deputy Governor of Bengal in the absence of the Governor General from the Presidency: III/10
Copy of minute by the Governor-General on the soldiers' sentence of hard labour: De Bene Esse depositions in courts martial: mode of inflicting capital punishment: flogging and Christian amenability to corporal punishment: III/11