Original semi-official letters, I.C. nos 1-40, 28 April 1916-10 January 1918, and no. 56, 23 January 1919, with related papers.

There is an index at the start of the volume containing the following entries:

A: Annual Accounts; Account Underwriting; Annual Meeting; A./Association; New Book Assistant; Administration Charges - Owners; Audits of Accounts; Agreement - Calcutta Line; Adjustment Board & Arbitrators; Adjustment of Value in Case of Loss by War Risk; Allowance for Claims & Consolidated Commission; Arbitration; Details about Accounts.

B: British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd - Retiring Pensions; British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd - Rates of Pay; R.H.R. Burder; Mr Barden; Arrangements at Bombay; Blue Book Rates of Chartered Hire; Blue Books Rates & Condition; Bonus; S.S. 'Banyei Maru', Kobe to Bombay; Delay at Busreh.

C: Compensation to Crews; Compensation to Stevedores; Commissions & Claims; Commission on 'Liner' Earnings; Contribution for Owners' Obligations; Calcutta Steamers; Calcutta - Pacific Trade; Proposed New Calcutta Steamer; Calcutta Line; Cadets; Committee - Hong Kong; Committee for United Kingdom; Committee Abroad; Chater's Director's Qualifications; Company's Line of Insurance; Certificates - Officers Holding Higher Grade Than That In Which They Serve; Classification of Steamers; Comparison of Pay - Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. & British India Steam Navigation Co.; Controlled Steamers; S.S. 'Cheonshing'; Control - Under Your Direct.

D: Debentures in the Names of Sir Edward Beauchamp and Myself; Proposed Interim Dividend; Diversion Clauses in B/Lading & P/Tickets; Dutch Steamers & Remuneration for Taking Over.

E: Mr Eastman; Interest on Exchequer Bonds; Exchequer Bonds; Engineers Engaged Locally; Excess Profits Tax; Exchange Compensation to Staff; Exchange at 2/- per $; Exchange Rate on Charter Hire; Expenses Organisation.

F: Funds; S.S. 'Fooksang'.

G: Mr Grimston; Guild Offices.

H: S.S. 'Hinsang'; Captain G.S. Holmwood; Hospital Allowance; Hoongon Co. Ltd; Hung-on Co.

I: Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.; Insurance; Indo-China - Annual Meeting; Increase of Pay - Officers' Demand; Indo-China Shares; Insurance on Kiukiang Hulk; Insurance on Fleet; Increased Leave After Five Years Instead of After Six; Income Tax on Preferred Shares; Marine Insurance.

J: Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd - Revised Commission.

K: S.S. 'Kwaisang'; S.S. 'Kutsang' Claim.

L: S.S. 'Lienshing'; Leave Rules; Leave Pay; List of Steamship Companies.

M: Meeting - Board of Directors; Meetings - Minutes of Board; Matheson's Remuneration; Monthly Estimates.

N: S.S. 'Namsang'.

O: Opium Money - S.S. 'Yuensang'; S.S. 'Onsang'.

P: R.N. Petty Offices; Passage Between England & India; Pay - Rates of Pay on Indian Coast; Officers' Pay; Pensions on Superannuation No. 4; Pension Scheme; Pension to Officers & Engineers; Method of Payment for Hire.

R: Rates of Charter Hire & Details about Accounts; Rates of Charter Hire for Cargo Liners & Tramps; Requisitioned & Liable to Loss by War Risk; Retiring Age; Liner Requisition; Result of Working; Requisitioned Steamers; Flat Requisitioned Vessels; Requisitioning of Steamers; General Requisitioning; River Steamer Ordered from Messrs William Hamilton & Co.; Reconditioning of Vessels; S.S. 'Rajah' & 'Ranee'.

S: Mr Sinclair; Strike of Officers; Strike Settlement Terms; Standard Ships; Firm's Holding of Shares; Conditions of Service in the East; Sub-committee - Hong Kong.

T: Telegrams; Telegram of 20/10/17 to Matheson & Co.; Messrs Tamplin & Kellock; S.S. 'Taishan'; Termination of Liner Requisition.

V: Delay at Vladivostock; Class of Vessel; Valuations of Steamers; Vessels which have come to this Country.

W: War Bags - Calcutta-Vladivostock; War Bags; War Bonus; West River Steamers; Mr Wells; War Risk Insurance on Calcutta Steamers; War Risk - Excess Values;
Water.