Wallis, J.

1. This is a suit brought by the Plaintiff Mr. A.M. Ross to recover damages from the Secretary of State for India in Council in respect of two orders made by the Collector of Ganjam, by one of which a local agent working under the Assam Labour and Emigration Act 1901, was suspended and the depot maintained by him closed to recruiting, while on the other the local Agent was dismissed; and also for alleged defamation of the plaintiff by the Governor of Madras in Council in a Government order passed on the appeal of the plaintiff and other interested parties against the Collecters order above referred to. Under Part IV of the aforesaid Act of 1901, as amended in 1908, recruiters known as Garden sirdars are sent by employers in Assam to recruit labourers in Ganjam and other places under a license issued by the authorities in Assam and countersigned by the authorities of the District in which the recruiting is to be carried on. They are under a statutory duty to provide a proper place of accommodation or depot for the recruited coolies and to get each coolys labour contract executed before an appointed officer. Employers may also appoint local agents to supervise them.