Abandonment of the publication of a separate 1856/57 administration report for the Punjab owing to the Mutiny disturbances - instead there is to be a joint report for 1856/57 and 1857/58
Awards of lands and pensions to those inhabitants of the Hissar District who befriended and protected Europeans during the Mutiny (includes a list of the grantees, with particulars)
The Commissioner of the Cis-Sutlej States purchases a pakha building within the Ambala Cantonment at a cost of 6000 rupees, for use as a Circuit House (includes a plan of the house)
Appointments of Lieutenants Robert Horace Hudleston and George Gordon Young as Assistant Commissioners in the Punjab and of Captain Henry Arthur Dwyer as Assistant Commissioner, Jhajjar District, Delhi Territory (Vol 3)