Discharge of all persons, Hindu and Muslim, employed in the administration of oaths in the local Courts, in consequence of the promulgation of Act V of 1840 (An Act concerning the oaths and declarations of Hindus and Muslims)
Opinion of the Mahomedan law officers of the Sudder Adawlut on a question submitted by the Officer Commanding the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force relative to the setting aside of a Nikah [Muslim marriage] between parties who appear to be non-military residents of Secunderabad
Proposition by G A Smith, Magistrate of Rajahmundry, for a modification of the General Rules which required Heads of Police to refer all cases of homicide to the Magistrate
Objections to a law proposed by the Governor in Council of Bombay enabling Judges on criminal trials to dispense with the attendance of attesting witnesses to confessions taken before Magistrates
Extract from the Proceedings of the Court of Faujdari Udalut [Adalat] with an abstract of the reports of the several officers in charge of jails showing the instances in which the punishment of solitary confinement had been resorted to, and with what effect
Opinions on the report of the Indian Law Commissioners on the proposed change in the judicial system of the Madras Presidency. The papers include a copy of the Law Commissioners report at pp.5-78. Also included is a copy of the following Acts: Act VII of 1843, An Act for abolishing the Provin...
Correspondence with the Government of Pondicherry regarding the payments at Cuddalore to the Treasurer of the French Establishment of the 4th instalment of the rent due to France for 1842, and the 1st and 2nd instalments for 1843
Correspondence regarding payments made to the Netherlands Pensioners for the quarters ending 31st July 1842, 31st October 1842, and 31st January 1843. Includes lists of the pensioners, pp.7-19, 37-49, 67-77; and quarterly statements showing the amount of subscriptions to the Widows and Orphans...
Protests from parties residing at Karikal protesting against deductions stated to have been made by the Government of Pondicherry from the amount of indemnification granted by the British Government to the proprietors of salt-pans situated in the French possessions