A draft memorandum of the Governor-General concerning details of barracks to be constructed for European troops, the comparative salubrity and expense between stations in the hills and the plains and proposal for posting European regiments from certain stations in the plains to the hills; also a letter dated 24 October from W. Garden at Simla including a sketch showing the relative positions of hill stations and places eligible for locating European troops and giving his remarks thereon

Peel to Hardinge: acknowledges letter on measures in Punjab; the potato famine; the state of the government

Memoranda by the Governor-General and others on the siting and planning of barracks and suggestions for barrack discipline and comfort of the troops, with a note on frontier dispositions in November 1846

Copies of letters and memoranda concerning a revised scale of wound pensions for the Sepoys of the three presidencies

General Orders of the Commander-in-Chief in India containing orders for carrying into effect the arrangement for remodelling the corps of sappers and miners

Correspondence between the Secretary to Government of India and the Quarter-Master-General and the Surveyor-General of India regarding the extent of land and coast frontier and the area of the British possessions and of those of the native chiefs in India, including a map of the territories

Copy of letter of Governor-General on the question of the annual inspections of the Commander-in-Chief and suggesting that the latter move with a small staff, leaving the permanent military establishment behind, the inspection not taking place until late in December

Brigadier Costley's case correspondence and papers dealing with the claim for expenses of removal by Brigadiers posted from a frontier post.

Memoranda by the Governor-General and correspondence dealing with the maintaining of troops in Lahore in 1847, their disposition and their relief