Invention by Lieutenant Thomas Cook RN, Assistant Professor of Fortification at Addiscombe Military Seminary of a 'portable telescope boat' to be used as a pontoon bridge by troops and artillery - correspondence regarding the same
The Resident at Hyderabad [Lieut Colonel Josiah Stewart] asks the Madras Government for a supply of cavalry accoutrements and other military stores for the Nizam's Army (an indent of the stores appears on p 5)
Increase in the number of Turks, Egyptions, Persians and other Asian foreigners visiting Madras, many without visible means of support - the Collectors and Magistrates of the Madras Presidency are ordered to keep a look-out for such persons and report on them to Government
Correspondence of the Lieutenant Governor of the North Western Provinces [Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe] with the Cis-Sutlej and Bundelkhand Chiefs regarding measures to be taken against the plague which was reported to be raging in Udaipur and Jodhpur
Decision of the NWP Government that independent Chiefs who possess property within the Company's territory are not liable personally to the jurisdiction of the British Courts when residing outside British territory
Revenue returns for the Carnatic, Tanjore and the Ceded Districts [Kurnool, Bellary, Cuddapah, Anantapur] from the time of their cession to the Company until the end of Fasli year 1245 (Jul 1836) (with associated correspondence)
Decision that Political Agents have no authority over state prisoners who have been placed under the surveillance of a Magistrate - case of Durjan Sal, a state prisoner at Benares
Papers regarding the education of the young Nawab of Arcot [Ghulam Muhammad Ghaus Khan] - Madras Government express concern about his lack of progress (includes, on pp 14-15, the replies of the Naib-i-Mukhtar to a Government questionnaire regarding the Nawab's education)