Papers regarding Cooch Behar State - Annual Administration Report on the State for 1865, compiled by the Officiating Commissioner [Lieut Colonel William Agnew] - question of the validity of the 'Gandharva' form of marriage observed by the Ruling Family of Cooch Behar
Memorial to the Secretary of State for India from Raja Pertab Narayan Singh Deo, Zemindar of Jashpur in Chota Nagpur, appealing against the orders passed in a boundary dispute between himself and the Zemindar of Birukasalpur (includes a copy of the memorial in the original language as well as in English, and on, p 29, a map, MS, coloured, showing the disputed boundary)
Question of the supply of interpreters in oriental languages, for service on board HM ships on the Indian station - suggestion that the Indian Navy should in some form or other be revived
Disbursements made by H. M. Envoy in Persia for the relief of a 'distressed British Indian subject' and in an attempt to obtain the release of certain British Indian subjects captured by the Turkomans - question whether such advances should be made without the previous sanction of the Government of India
Further papers regarding the financial improvidence of the ex-King of Oudh [Wajid Ali Shah] - report of Lieut Colonel Charles Herbert - Government interference inevitable if the ex-King does not mend his ways (includes, on pp 7-15, lists of the ex-King's wives, concubines, children and retainers, with remarks)
Further papers regarding the financial embarrassments of Prince Muhammad Hamid Ali Bahadur, eldest son of the ex-King of Oudh [Wajid Ali Shah] - his father assigns him an allowance of 5000 rupees 'per mensem' for the support of himself and family
Report of the Chief Commissioner of British Burma [Colonel Arthur Purves Phayre] on his mission to Mandalay - failure of the mission to attain its objectives - services rendered to the mission by Bishop Bigandet (includes, on pp 7-9, a draft of the treaty negotiated by Phayre with the Burmese)
Unrest among the Janakhor section of the Hassan Khel Afridis - blockade imposed on them by the Officiating Commissioner of Peshawar [Donald MacNabb Campbell] - question of the construction of a road in the neighbourhood of the Kohat Pass
Correspondence regarding the stoppage of the Persian Gulf trade in Arab horses consequent upon the export embargo placed on them by the Turkish Authorities at Baghdad, Vol 1