The contents are as follows. (i) Annual summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration, 1905-1907, 1908-1909 (folio 1); (ii) Papers connected with the surveying and financing of the projected railways from Peshawar to Kabul by the Khyber, and from Kohat to Kabul by the Kurram Valley, 1906 (folio 70); (iii) Papers relating to the Baghdad Railway, 1907-1909 (folio 88); (iv) Memorandum for the Secretary of State on funds for railway construction, 1909 (folio 136); (v) Memorandum on the reconstitution of the South Indian Railway, 1910 (folio 142).