Papers regarding the transfer of the North Kanara District from the Madras to the Bombay Presidency - memoranda by William Edward Frere, Sir George Clerk and Thomas George Baring - question of the status of the port of Sadashivgarh (includes, on p 7, a sketch map, MS, coloured, showing North Kanara District and adjoining territory)
Petition to Queen Victoria from Musammat Uma Bai praying for the release of her husband Rao Sadasheo Rao Narain who has been sentenced to transportation for life for rebellion (with associated correspondence)
Report received from Hong Kong that the party commanded by Lieut Colonel Sarel which was making its way across Southern China from the Yangtse to the Himalayas has now arrived in Sichuan
Papers regarding the conflict between the Nawab of Bahawalpur [Bahawal Khan] and his Chief Minister [Ahmed Khan] - Ahmed Khan is subsequently killed when the Nawab's troops lay siege to his house
Mutiny papers relating to Nepal - enquiries by the emissaries of the Raja of Balrampur into the alleged death of the Nana Sahib and his secretary Azimullah - the Resident in Nepal [Lieut Colonel George Ramsay] believes that the Nana may still be alive, hiding out somewhere in Western Nepal
Papers relating to the Punjab - report by the Commissioner in the Trans-Sutlej States [Philip Sandys Melvill] on a meeting of Jaikari Rajputs held at Dharmsala on 12 Mar 1861 for the purpose of promoting equal marriages among the Rajput tribes of the Punjab and preventing infanticide (with associated correspondence)
Question of the receipt of the Indian Mutiny medals awarded to the following persons- Dafadar John Sequeira of the Belgaum Mounted Police; James May, Probationary Assistant Engineer, Lucknow; Ghulam Missar, a native doctor of Bhopal, and Chamman, a native dresser