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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1833
* * *1 The territorial acquisitions and revenues mentioned or referred to in the said Act of the fifty-third year of his late Majesty King George the Third, together with the port and island of Bombay and all other territories now in the possession and under the government of the said company except the island of St. Helena, shall remain and continue under such government until the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four;
Real and personal property of the company to be held in trust for the Crown, for the service of India and2 ** * all the lands and here determents, revenues, rents and profits of the said company, and all the stores, merchandize, chattels, monies, debts, and real and personal estate whatsoever, except the said island of St. Helena and the stores and property thereon hereinafter mentioned, subject to the debts and liabilities now affecting t
* * *1 all and singular the privileges, franchises, abilities, capacities, powers, authorities, whether military or civil, rights, remedies, methods of suits, penalties, forfeitures, disabilities, provisions, matters, and things whatsoever granted to or continued in the said united company by the said Act of the fifty-third year of King George the Third for and during the term limited by the said Act, and all other the enactments, provisions, matters, and things contained in the said Act, or in any other Act or Acts whatsoever which are limited or may be construed to be limited to continue for and during the term granted to the said company by the said Act of the fifty-third year of King George the Third so far as the same or any of them are in force, and not repealed by or repugnant to the enactments hereinafter contained, and all powers of alienation and disposition, rights, franchises, and immunities, which the said united
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
* * *1 the said board shall have and be invested with full power and authority to superintend, direct, and control, all acts, operations, and concerns of the said company which in anywise relate to or concern the government or revenues of the said territories or the property hereby vested in the said company in trust as aforesaid and all grants of salaries, gratuities and allowances and all other payments and charges whatever out of or upon the said revenues and property respectively, except as hereinafter is mentioned.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51 & 52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Provided also * * *1 that if the said board shall be of opinion that the subject-matter of any of their deliberations concerning the levying war or making peace, or treating or negotiation with any of the native princes or states in India, or with any other princes or states, or touching the policy to be observed with respect to such princes or states intended to be communicated in orders, dispatches, official letters or communications, to any of the governments or presidencies in India, or to any officers or servants of the said company shall be of a nature to require secrecy, it shall and may be lawful for the said board to send their orders, dispatches, official letters or communications, to the secret committee of the said court of directors to be appointed as is by this Act directed, who shall thereupon without disclosing the same transmit the same according to the tenor thereof or pursuant to the directions of the said
* * *1the territories now subject to the government of the presidency of Fort William in Bengal shall be divided into two distinct presidencies, one of such presidencies in which shall be included Fort William aforesaid, to be styled the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, and the other of such presidencies to be styled the Presidency of Agra;
The court of directors to declare the limits from time to time of the several presidencies.--And it shall be lawful for the said court of directors under the control by this Act provided, and they are hereby required to declare and appoint what part or parts of any of the territories under the government of the said company shall from time to time be subject to the government of each of the several presidencies now subsisting or to be established as aforesaid, and from time to time, as occasion may require, to revoke and alter, in the whole
* * *1 the superintendence, direction, and control of the whole civil and military government of all the said territories and revenues in India shall be and is hereby vested in a governor general and counsellors, to be styled "The Governor General of India in Council."
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 24 & 25 Vict., c. 67, Section 2.
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 24 & 25 Vict., c. 67, Section 2.
Repealed 24 & 25 Vict., c. 67, Section 2.
Provided also * * *1that all laws and regulations made as aforesaid, so long as they shall remain un repealed, shall be of the same force and effect within and throughout the said territories as any Act of Parliament would or ought to be within the same territories and shall be taken notice of by all courts of justice whatsoever within the same territories in the same manner as any public Act of Parliament would and ought to be taken notice of;
Registration unnecessary.--And it shall not be necessary to register or publish in any court of justice any laws or regulations made by the said governor general in council.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51 & 52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Provided also * * *1that it shall not be lawful for the said governor general in council without the previous sanction of the said court of directors, to make any law or regulation whereby power shall be given to any courts of justice, other than the courts of justice established by his Majesty's charters, to sentence to the punishment of death any of his Majesty's natural-born subjects born in Europe, or the children of such subjects, or which shall abolish any of the courts of justice established by his Majesty's charters.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51 & 52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1the said court of directors shall forthwith submit for the approbation of the said board, such rules as they shall deem expedient for the procedure of the governor general in council in the discharge and exercise of all powers, functions, and duties imposed on or vested in him by virtue of this Act or to be imposed or vested in him by any other Act or Acts; which rules shall prescribe the modes of promulgation of any laws or regulations to be made by the said governor general in council and of the authentication of all acts and proceedings whatsoever of the governor general in council:
and such rules when approved by the said board of commissioners shall be of the same force as if they had been inserted in this Act:
Provided always that such rules shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament in the session next after the approval
Provided always * * *1that all other functions of the said governor general in council may be exercised by the said governor general and one or more ordinary member or members of council, and that in every case of difference of opinion at meetings of the said council where there shall be an equality of voices, the said governor general shall have two votes or the casting vote.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51 & 52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Repealed 33 & 34 Vict., c. 3, Section 4.
Repealed 24 & 25 Vict., c. 67, Section 1.
Provided always * * *1 that nothing herein contained shall extend to affect in any way the right of Parliament to make laws for the said territories and for all the inhabitants thereof;
and it is expressly declared that a full, complete, and constantly existing right and power is intended to be reserved to Parliament to control, supersede, or prevent all proceedings and acts whatsoever of the said governor-general in council, and to repeal and alter at any time any law or regulation whatsoever made by the said governor general in council, and in all respects to legislate for the said territories and all the inhabitants thereof in as full and complete a manner as if this Act had not been passed;
Laws and regulations made by governor general in council to be laid before Parliament. - And the better to enable Parliament to exercise at all t
* * *1all enactments, provisions, matters, and things relating to the governor genera! of Fort William in Bengal in council, and the governor general of Fort William in Bengal alone, respectively, in any other Act or Acts contained, so for as the same are now in force, and not repealed by or repugnant to the provisions of this Act, shall continue and be in force and be applicable to the governor general of India in council, and to the governor general of India alone, respectively.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
(Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.)].
(Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.)].
(Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.)].
* * *1the executive government of each of the several presidencies of the Fort William in Bengal, Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Agra shall be administered by a governor and three councillors, to be styled "The Governor in Council of the said Presidencies of Fort William in Bengal, Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Agra respectively";
and the said governor and councillors respectively of each such presidency shall have the same rights and voices in their assemblies, and shall observe the same order and course in their proceedings, as the governors in council of the presidencies of Fort Saint George and Bombay now have and observe; * * *2
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
2. Rest of the section
Provided always * * *1that it shall and may be lawful for the said court of directors, under such control as is by this Act provided, to revoke and suspend, so often and for such periods as the said court shall in that behalf direct, the appointment of councils in all or any of the said presidencies, or to reduce the number of councillors in all or any of the said councils;
and during such time as a council shall not be appointed in any such presidencies the executive government thereof shall be administered by a governor alone.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.)].
* * *1in the presidencies in which the appointment of a council shall be suspended under the provision hereinbefore contained, and during such time as councils shall not be appointed therein respectively, the governors appointed under this Act, and in the presidencies in which councils shall from time to time be appointed, the said governors in their respective councils shall have all their rights, powers, duties, functions, and immunities whatsoever, not in anywise repugnant to this Act, which the governors of Fort Saint George and Bombay in their respective councils now have within their respective presidencies;
and the governors and members of council of presidencies appointed by or under this Act shall severally have all the rights, powers, and immunities respectively, not in anywise repugnant to this Act, which the governors and members of council of the presidencies of Fort S
[Repealed 37 & 38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
*1 * * *2 it shall be lawful for the said court of directors to appoint any person or persons provisionally to succeed to any of the offices aforesaid, for supplying any vacancy or vacancies therein, when the same shall happen by the death or resignation of the person or persons holding the same office or offices respectively, or on his or their departure from India with intent to return to Europe, or on any event of contingency expressed in any such provisional appointment or appointments to the same respectively, and such appointments again to revoke:
Provisional appointments of certain officers to be approved by his Majesty.--Provided that every provisional appointment to the several offices of governor general of India, governor of a presidency, and the member of council of India by this Act directed to be appointed from amongst persons who shall not be servants of the said com
* * *1 if any vacancy shall happen in the office of governor general of India when no provisional or other successor shall be upon the spot to supply such vacancy, then and in every such case2 the ordinary member of council next in rank to the said governor general shall hold and execute the said office of governor general of India 3 * * * until a successor shall arrive or until some other person on the spot shall be duly appointed thereto;
and every such acting governor general shall, during the time of his continuing to act as such, have and exercise all the rights and powers of governor general of India, and shall be entitled to receive the emoluments and advantages appertaining to the office by him supplied, such acting governor general foregoing his salary and allowance of a member of council for the same period.
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1[* * *] if any vacancy shall happen in the office of governor of Fort Saint George, Bombay, or Agra, when no provisional or other successor shall be upon the spot to supply such vacancy, then and in every such case, if there shall be a council in the presidency in which such vacancy shall happen,2 the member of such council, who shall be next in rank to the governor other than the[........].3 office commanding the forces of such presidency, and if there shall be no council, then the secretary of government of the said presidency who shall be senior in the said office of secretary, shall hold and execute the said office of governor until a successor shall arrive or until some other person on the spot shall be duly appointed thereto;
and every such acting governor shall, during the time of his continuing to act as such, receive and be entitled to the emoluments and advantages appert
[Repealed 53 A 54 Vict., c. .33 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1 the said governor general in council shall have and be invested by virtue of this Act with full power and authority to superintend and control the governor and governors in council of Fort William in Bengal, Fort Saint George, Bombay and Agra, in all points relating to the civil or military administration of the said presidencies respectively, and the said governors and governors in council shall be bound to obey such orders and instructions of the said governor general in council in all cases whatsoever.
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1. Enacting words repealed, 51&52 Vict., c. 57.
[Repealed 24&25 Vict., c. 67, Section 2]
* * *1when the said governor general shall visit any of the presidencies of Fort Saint George, Bombay, or Agra the powers of the governors of those presidencies respectively shall not by reason of such visit be suspended,
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1. Enacting words repealed, 51&52 Vict., c. 57.
* * *1the said governors and governors in council of the said presidencies of Fort William in Bengali, Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Agra respectively shall and they arc hereby respectively required regularly to transmit to the said governor general in council true and exact copies of all such orders and acts of their respective governments, and also advice and intelligence of all transactions and matters which shall have come to their knowledge, and which they shall deem material to be communicated to the said governor general in council as aforesaid, or as the said governor general in council shall from time to time require.
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1. Enacting words repealed, 51&52 Vict., c. 57.
[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
[Repezled 24&25 Vict., 67, Section 2]
[Repealed 2 A 3 Geo. 5, c. 6, Section 4& Schedule, Part II.]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1it shall be lawful for the said governor general in council from time to time to make articles of war for the government of the native officers and soldiers in the military service of the company, and for the administration of justice by courts-martial to be Holden on such officers and soldiers and such articles of war from time to time to repeal or vary and amend;
and such articles of war shall be made and taken notice of in the same manner as all other the laws and regulations to be made by the said governor general in council under this Act, and shall prevail and be in force, and shall be of exclusive authority over all the native officers and soldiers in the said military service, to whatever presidency such officers and soldiers may belong or whosesoever they may be serving:
Provided nevertheless, that until such articles of w
* * *1it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by any writing under his manual, * * *2to remove or dismiss any person holding any office, employment or commission, civil or military, under the said company in India, and to vacate any appointment or commission of any person to any such office or employment.* * *2
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
2. Rest of the section was repealed by 43 Vict., c: 3, 2.5.
Provided always* * *1that nothing in this Act contained shall take away the power of the said court of directors to remove or dismiss any of the officers or servants of the said company, but that the said court shall and may at all times have full liberty to remove or dismiss any of such officers or servants at their will and pleasure.* * *2
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
2. Rest of the section was repealed by 43 Vict., c: 3, 2.5.
* * *1there shall be paid to the several officers hereinafter named the several salaries set against the names of such officers, subject to such reduction of the said several salaries respectively as the said court of directors, with the sanction of the said board, may at any time think fit (that is to say).
To the governor general of India, two hundred and forty thousand sicca rupees: To each ordinary member of the council of India, ninety-six thousand sicca rupees:
To each governor of the presidencies of Fort Saint George, Bombay, and Agra, one hundred and twenty thousand sicca rupees:
To each member of any council to be appointed in any presidency, sixty thousand sicca rupees:
and the salaries of the said officers respectively shall commence from
Provided always * * *1that if any governor general, or governor, or ordinary member of the council of India, or any member of the council of any presidency, shall hold or enjoy any pension, salary, or any place, office, or employment of profit under the crown or any public office or the said company, or any annuity payable out of the civil or military fund of the said company, the salary of his office of governor general of India, governor or member of council, shall be reduced by the amount of the pension, salary, annuity, or profits of office so respectively held or enjoyed by him.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1the said court of directors, with the approbation of the said board of commissioners, shall and may from time to time make regulations for the division and distribution of the patronage and power of nomination of and to the offices, commands and employments in the said territories, and in all or any of the presidencies thereof, among the said governor general in council, governor general, governors in council, governors, commander in chief, and other commanding officers respectively appointed or to be appointed under this Act.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1the return to Europe or the departure from India with intent to return to Europe of any governor general of India, governor, member of council, or commander in chief, shall be deemed in law a resignation and avoidance of his office or employment;
Resignation in India to be by deed.--And no act or declaration of any governor general, or governor, or member of council, other than as aforesaid, excepting a declaration in writing under hand and seal, delivered to the secretary for the public department of the presidency wherein he shall be, in order to its being recorded, shall be deemed or held as a resignation or surrender of his said office;
Salary to cease on departure or resignation.--And if any such governor general or member of council of India shall leave the said territories, or if any governor or other officer whatever in the
* * *1 every wilful disobeying, and every wilful omitting, forbearing, or neglecting to execute the orders or instructions of the said court of directors by any governor general of India, governor, member of council, or commander in chief, or by any other of the officers or servants of the said company, unless in cases of necessity (the burthen of the proof of which necessity shall be on the person so disobeying or omitting, forbearing or neglecting, to execute such orders or instructions as aforesaid), and every wilful breach of the trust and duty of any office or employment by any such governor general, governor, member of council, or commander in chief, or any of the officers or servants of the said company, shall be deemed and taken to be a misdemeanor at law, and shall or may be proceeded against and punished as such by virtue of this Act.
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[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1the said governor general in council shall and he is hereby required, as soon as conveniently may be, to make laws or regulations providing for the prevention or punishment of the illicit entrance into or residence in the said territories of persons not authorized to enter or reside therein.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1it shall be lawful for any natural born subject of his Majesty authorised to reside in the said territories to acquire and hold lands, or any right, interest, or profit in or out of lands, for any term of years, in such part or parts of the said territories as he shall be so authorized to reside in:
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be taken to prevent the said governor general in council from enabling, by any laws or regulations, or otherwise, any subjects of his Majesty to acquire or hold any lands, or rights, interests, or profits in or out of lands, in any part of the said territories and for any estates or terms whatever.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1no native of the said territories, nor any natural-born subject of his Majesty resident therein, shall, by person only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour, or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said company.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
[Repealed as to U.K. 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.). Omitted as being obsolete.]
[Recital. Rep. 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.)]. In case it shall please his Majesty to erect, found, and constitute two bishopricks, one to be styled the bishoprick of Madras and the other the bishoprick of Bombay, and from time to time to nominate and appoint bishops to such bishopricks under the style and title of bishops of Madras and Bombay respectively, there shall be paid from and out of the revenues of the said territories to such bishops respectively the sum of twenty-four thousand sicca rupees by the year.
* * *1the said salaries shall commence from the time at which such persons as shall be appointed to the said office of bishop shall take upon them the execution of their respective offices;
and such salaries shall be in lieu of all fees of office, perquisites, emoluments, or advantages whatsoever;
and no fees of office, perquisites, emoluments, or advantages whatsoever shall be accepted, received, or taken by such bishop or either of them, in any manner or on any account or pretence whatsoever, other than the salaries aforesaid;
and such bishops respectively shall be entitled to such salaries so long as they shall respectively exercise the functions of their several offices in the British territories aforesaid.
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[Repealed 43 Vict., c. 3, Section 5.]
Provided always* * *1that such bishops shall not have or use any jurisdiction or exercise any episcopal functions whatsoever, either in the said territories or elsewhere, but only such jurisdiction and functions as shall or may from time to time be limited to them respectively by his Majesty by his royal letters patent under the great seal of the said United Kingdom.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1 it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty from time to time, if he shall think fit, by his royal letters patent under the great seal of the said United Kingdom, to assign limits to the diocese of the bishoprick of Calcutta and to the dioceses of the said bishopricks of Madras and Bombay respectively, and from time to time to alter and vary the same limits respectively as to his Majesty shall seem fit, and to grant to such bishops respectively within the limits of the irrespective dioceses the exercise of episocopal functions, and of such ecclesiastical jurisdiction as his Majesty shall think necessary for the superintendence and good government of the ministers of the United Church of England and Ireland therein.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Provided always * * *1 that the bishop of Calcutta for the time being shall be deemed and taken to be the metropolitan bishop in India, and as such shall have, enjoy, and exercise all such ecclesiastical jurisdiction and episcopal functions, for the purposes aforesaid, as his Majesty shall by his royal letters patent under the great seal of the said United Kingdom think necessary to direct, subject nevertheless to the general superintendence and revision of the archbishop of Canterbury for the time being; and that the bishops of Madras and Bombay for the time being respectively shall be subject to the bishop of Calcutta for the time being as such metropolitan and shall at the time of their respective appointments to such bishopricks or at the time of their respective consecrations as bishop take an oath of obedience to the said bishop of Calcutta in such manner as his Majesty by his said royal letters patent shall be pleased
[Repealed 53&54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by warrant under his royal sign mannual countersigned by the chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, to grant to any such bishop of Madras or Bombay respectively who shall have exercised in the British territories aforesaid for fifteen years the office of such bishop, a pension not exceeding eight hundred pounds per annum to be paid quarterly by the said company.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1in all cases when it shall happen the said person nominated and appointed to be bishop of either of the said bishopricks of Madras or Bombay shall depart this life within six calendar months next after the day when he shall have arrived in India for the purpose of taking upon him the office of such bishop, there shall be payable out of the territorial revenues from which the salary of such bishop so dying shall be payable, to the legal personal representatives of such bishop, such sum or sums of money as shall together with the sum or sums paid to or drawn by such bishop in respect of his salary, make up the full amount of one year's salary :
and when and so often as it shall happen that any such bishop shall depart this life while in possession of such office, and after the expiration of six calendar months from the time of his arrival in India for the purpose of taking upon
* * *1if it shall happen that either of the bishops of Madras or Bombay shall be translated to the bishoprick of Calcutta, the period of residence of such person as bishop of Madras or Bombay shall be accounted for and taken as a residence as bishop of Calcutta;
and if any person now an archdeacon in the territories shall be appointed bishop of Madras or Bombay, the period of his residence in India as such archdeacon shall for all the purposes of this Act be accounted for and taken as a residence as such bishop.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
Provided also* * *1that if any person under the degree of a bishop shall be appointed to either of the bishopricks of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay who at the time of such appointment shall be resident in India, then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the archbishop of Canterbury, when and as he shall be required so to do by his Majesty by his royal letters patent under the great seal of the said United Kingdom to issue a commission under his hand and seal to be directed to the two remaining bishops, authorizing and charging them to perform all such requisite ceremonies for the consecration of the person so to be appointed to the degree and office of a bishop.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1the expences of visitations to be made from time to time by the said bishops of Madras and Bombay respectively shall be paid by the said company out of the revenues of the said territories:
Provided that no greater sum on account of such visitations be at any time issued than shall from time to time be defined and settled by the court of directors of the said company with the approbation of the commissioners for the affairs of India.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
** *1no archdeacon hereafter to be appointed for the archdeaconry of the presidency of Fort William in Bengal or the archdeaconry of the presidency of Fort Saint George, or the archdeaconry of the presidency and island of Bombay, shall receive in respect of his archdeaconry any salary exceeding three thousand sicca rupees per annum :
Proviso as to total expence of church establishment.--Provided always that the whole expence incurred in respect of the said bishops and archdeacons shall not exceed one hundred and twenty thousand sicca rupees per annum.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
* * *1of the establishment of chaplains maintained by the said company at each of the presidencies of the said territories, two chaplains shall always be ministers of the church of Scotland, and shall have and enjoy from the said company such salary as shall from time to time be allotted to the military chaplains at the several presidencies:
Provided always that the ministers of the Church of Scotland to be appointed chaplains at the said presidencies as aforesaid shall be ordained and inducted by the presbytery of Edinburgh according to the forms and solemnities used in the Church of Scotland and shall be subject to the spiritual and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in all things of the presbytery of Edinburgh whose judgments shall be subject to dissent, protest, and appeal to the provincial synod of Lothian and Tweed ale and to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland;
[Repealed 16&17 Vict,, c. 95, Section 36].
[Repealed 16&17 Vict,, c. 95, Section 36].
[Repealed 16&17 Vict,, c. 95, Section 36].
[Repealed 16&17 Vict,, c. 95, Section 36].
[Repealed 16&17 Vict,, c. 95, Section 36].
[Repealed. 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
* * *1the island of Saint Helena and all forts, factories public edifices; and hereditaments whatsoever in the said island, and all stores and property thereon fit or used for the service of the government thereof, shall be vested in his Majesty* * *2;
and the said island shall be governed by such orders as his Majesty in council shall from time to time issue in that behalf.
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1. Enacting words repealed (U.K.), 51&52 Vict., c. 57 (S.L.R.).
2. The words "his heirs and successors" were repealed by 53 and 54 Vict., c. 33 (S.L.R.).
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
[Repealed 37&38 Vict., c. 35 (S.L.R.).]
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