Government of India forward to the Bombay Government various reports by Bengal Engineer officers on road-making with special reference to tracts of country possessing no durable materials but formed entirely of black soil (the reports are on pp 6-32)
Question whether a woman sentenced to death and subsequently found to be pregnant should have the sentence commuted to life imprisonment or merely deferred until after the delivery of the child - Bombay Government support the former point of view, Government of India the latter
Question of the assessment of lands used for sugar cultivation, with special reference to the Bengal Presidency - reports from Revenue Commissioners and Collectors (includes revenue returns for Arakan Province, etc.)
Government of India reject an appeal by the Raja of Benares [Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh] against the resumption of certain Amildari lands - claim of Kunwar Pertab Chand of Kumaon to arrears of pension - award of a pension of 1800 rupees 'per annum' to the family of the late Raja Prithipat Sah
Publication by the Government of India of the new Regulation of the Court of Directors regarding foreign trade with India (a printed copy of the regulation appears on pp 7-9)
Question of resuming a Maafi tenure in Kumaon, granted by the Nepal Government to Ganga Ram Shastri - complaint of the Deputy Surveyor General [Captain James Bedford] about the delay in the delivery of drawing materials from Calcutta - decision that herceforth copies of the proceedings of the Sad...
Sewdial Ram, a wealthy inhabitant of Mirzapur, offers to plant a line of trees at his own expense on the new Deccan road from Mirzpur Jail to the Katra Pass
Proposals of the Bombay Government for an Act to suppress the slave trade on the Malabar Coast - correspondence of the Bombay Government regarding individual instances of slave dealing, etc. (a draft of the proposed Act appears on pp 87-89)