Miscellaneous: marked 'Confidential Papers': minutes by Grant Duff, Lord Roberts and others on the abolition of the Madras Army, the possibility of a Russian invasion of India, the annexation of Burma, the Ilbert Bill, railway policy, native volunteers, land revenue settlements, the native press,...
Financial: provincial accounts 1884-85; alleged tendency of excise system to increase intemperance; copy of Bombay Financial Letter to Government of India reporting on that Presidency's financial position
Public Works Department: Selections from the Proceedings of the Madras Government in the Public Works Department: waterworks and irrigation systems in the Godavari, Kistna and Cauvery deltas; and the Penner Anicut Dated as: Madras 1883