JUDGMENT

Norman, J. - Mr. Wilkinson, the Officiating Administrator-General of Bengal, has applied to this Court for a grant of Letters of Administration to the estate and effects of Frederick Nechterlein, deceased, who was, in his lifetime, a British subject residing in the District of Allyghur, and died intestate in 1867, leaving property within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the North-Western Provinces, and also within the jurisdiction of this Court. The property and effects of the deceased within the jurisdiction of this Court are stated to amount to Rs. 3,875. Letters of Administration were granted to Mr. Wilkinson as Administrator-General, by the High Court of the North-Western Provinces, on the 20th of December, 1867.

2. He now applies to this Court, on the ground that the Letters of Administration so granted do not give him any right to assets, except within the Northwestern Provinces, and his petition states that at the time when he applied to the High Court of the North-Western Provinces, he was not aware that there were assets in Calcutta belonging to the intestate's estate.

3. The question whether the Letters of Administration granted by the High Court of the North-W