Papers regarding the Indian Law Commission - question of the Commissioners' salaries - report on the work of the Commission (includes, on pp 15-18, notes on the references dealt with by the Commission in the period May 1837-Mar 1838)
Enactment of India Act 28 of 1838 allowing the judges of HM courts in India to impose transportation as a punishment for perjury (includes a copy of the Act, on pp 57-58)
Enactment of India Act 30 of 1838 authorising the establishment, at any civil station, of offices for the registration of deeds (includes a copy of the Act, on pp 58-60)
Enactment of India Act 31 of 1838 extending to HM courts in India the provisions of recent British statutes regarding the Criminal Law (a copy of the Act appears on pp 115-55)
Questions of interpretation with respect to various laws, including, 'inter alia', India Act 19 of 1838 and India Act 21 of 1837 - decision that the interpretation of existing laws in force is not within the province of the Legislative Council
Papers regarding various referrals to the Indian Law Commission, viz:- remuneration and jurisdiction of munsifs - operations of the Insolvents' Court, Bombay - observations of the Bombay Sadr Adalat on the UK Insolvent Act, 9 George IV, c 73 - case of two slaves of the Gaikwar's who took refuge i...
Enactment of India Act 8 of 1839 bringing the lapsed Jagir of Chinchni within the operation of the Bombay Regulations (a copy of the Act appears on pp 21-23)
Referral of various matters to the Indian Law Commission, viz:- the slave trade between Bombay and the Persian Gulf and 'vice versa - cognizance of suits against Sirkar ryots in the Madras Presidency - question of the employment of unauthorized vakils in the courts of District Amins and Munsifs, ...
Bengal Government are authorized to subscribe for 100 copies respectively of the English and Bengali versions of John C. Marshman's enlarged 'Munsif and Sadr Amin's Guide Book'
Postponement of the plan to erect two iron suspension bridges over the Bogapani and Birapani rivers in the Khasi Hills on the route from Sylhet to Gauhati