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Chaplains, 28-9; of Church of Scot-

land, 282.

Charles I, King, 10; licences,
Courten's Association, 15.
Charles II, King, 2, 12; Charter of,
1661, 16.
Charters

to

of Elizabeth (1600), 3–10;
of James I (1623), 14;
rival Companies, 15, 24-30;
of Cromwell (1657), 15-16;
of Charles II (1661), 16–20;
Judicial, 32, 50; as to booty,
34, 36; as to cession of terri-
tory, 36; of Supreme Court,
46-8; Parliamentary renewals,
69-91.
Chesney, Sir George, quoted, 33,
102, 136, 141, 296.

Chief Commissioners, appointment
of, 93, 141-2, 294.

Child, Sir John, 20, 21.

Child, Sir Josiah, 16, 20 n., 24-5.
China, trade with, reserved to
Company, 3, 75, 77. Monopoly
withdrawn, 81.

Christians:

Grants for any sect of, 282.
Native, jurisdiction over, 104,
154, 274.

Churches of England and Scotland,
252-4.

Civil Procedure, Code of, 87, 163, 362.
Civil Service :

Appointments to, 96, 99, 133,
149-51.

Provisional, 264.

Reserved posts, 150, 263;
schedule of, 300.
Special, 151.

Statutory civilians, 106, 150.
Subordinate, 151.

Definition of, 292.

Natives in, 106, 262-3.
Offences of, 283-90.

Statutory Enactments regarding,
262-5.

Thrown open, 3, 92.
Clavering, General, 45, 50.
Clive, Lord, 34, 37, 42.

Clode's Military Forces of the Crown,
quoted, 60, 69, 72, 298.
Codification of laws, 86, 369-71.
Coinage, 19, 21, 146, 247.
Collectors, 44, 162.
Colleges, 76, 78.
Commander-in-Chief, the, 108 and

n. 2, 155-6; extraordinary
member of Governor-General's
Council, 64, 138, 206; salary of,
253, 300.

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relations with, 15, 16.

Companies:

Chartered, 8.

Regulated, 7.
Trading, II.
Company, the East India:
Incorporation of, by Queen Eliza-
beth, 3, 10; control of, by
Charters and Parliament, see
those headings; martial law
exercised by, 14; competi-
tion with the Dutch, 15;
Courten's rival Association,
15; grant of Bombay, 18;
territorial sovereignty, 2, 18,
24, 36-7, 39, 41 n.; in trust for
Crown, 81, 90; grant of
Admiralty jurisdiction, 19,
20; rivalry of New Company,
24-30; incorporation of
English Company, 28; union
of Old and New Companies
as the United Company, 29-
30; extension of monopoly,
30, 31; Mutiny Act and
Articles of War, 33, 34;
grant of the Diwani, 37;
Governors with Councils
established, 42, 64; oriental
principle of Government, 52;
creation of Board of Control,
63; sovereignty of Crown
asserted, 77; monopoly of
china and tea trade abolished,
vested in Governor-
General of India in Council,
82; Chief Commissioners
appointed, 93; transferred
to Crown, 94; formally dis-
solved, 106.

81;

Joint stock or capital of, 6 and n.,
13, 15-16, 24-6, 28-9; re-
demption of, 82.

Dividends, 38-41, 60, 70, 76,
78 n., 96; on 'separate voy.
ages,' 13.

Company, the East India (cont.):
Legislative powers of, 9-10, 45-6,
65, 91.
Management of:

Courts of Proprietors, by, 5-6,
26, 41; loss of their power,
63.
Directors, by, 6, 26, 28, 90;
qualification for Directors,
41, 42; relations of, with
Governor-General and Secre-
tary of State, 46; with Board
of Control, 63-66, 68; com-
mittees of secrecy, 63, 82;
power to elect seven mem-
bers of first Council of State,

95.
Natives, relations with, see Na-
tives.

Naval Force of, 20, 97–8.
Patronage of, 64, 66, 76, 82;
subject to Crown and Board
of Control, 3, 79, 92.

Revenue of, application of, 70, 76,
78, 80; Debts charged to,
96, 185.

Servants of:
Classes of, 42.

Fortunes of, 38–40, 67.
Jurisdiction over, 14, 49-50,
54-6.

Pensions and salaries of, 48,
76, 80.

Presents to, prohibited, 49,

65.

Profits of, 42-3.

Promotion of, 42, 66, 98.
Treasury, relations with the:

Loans from, 41; repaid, 59.
Loans to, 15, 27, 30-I.
Payments to, 39, 70.
Treaties and orders of, to con-

tinue binding, 290, 291.
Tributes paid by, 40.
Troops of, 33-4; powers to raise

European troops, 60, 72;
volunteer infantry, 80; num-
ber of King's troops to be
limited, 76, 79.
Conditional appointments, 158, 257.
Consular jurisdiction, 383-91.
Contract Act, 357, 364, 367.
Contracts by Secretary of State, 98,

108, 193-202.

Control, Board of, see Board of
Control.

Coorg, Chief Commissionership, 141;
Native Christians in, 362:
Local Government, 294 (and see
Local Governments).

Copyright, 146, 247.

Cornwallis, Lord, 50, 67, 68, 296.
Cossijurah case, the, 54.

Council of India, the, 172-7 (see
also Secretary of State in
Council).

Courten, Sir William, 15.
Courts of proprietors, see under Com-
pany, management of.
Cowell's Tagore Law Lectures, quoted,
59, 276.

Criminal Procedure, Code of, 87,
164, 362, 415-16.
Cromer, Lord, 393.

Cromwell, Company's relations with,
15, 16.

Crown:

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Dundas, Robert, 73.
Dutch East India Company, 4, 8.

Easements Act, 366.

East India Company, see Company.
East India (Executive and Legisla-
tive Councils), Regulations,
cited, III-12.
Eastern Bengal, former union of,
with Assam, 127, 218.
Ecclesiastical Establishment, 280-2
(see also Bishops).
Education, 78, 139, 205.
Elizabeth, Queen, Charter of, 1,
3 ff.

Ellenborough, Lord, 94, 95.
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 84, 349.
Empress of India, Act authorizing
title, 107, 171.
English Company, the, 2.
English Courts, jurisdiction of, over
offences in India, 50, 65, 155,
283-90; special court for of-
fences in India not put in force,
66 and n.

Escheats, 186, 195.

European British subjects, see Brit-
ish subjects.

Evidence Act, the, 355, 362.
Executive Councils, power to create,
IIO, III.

Of Governor-General, see Gover-
nor-General in Council.
Of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and
Bihar, see those headings.
Explosive Substances Act, 374,
377.

Extra-territorial legislation, 372-8.
Extra-territorial powers of Gover-
nor-General, 417–28.

Family customs preserved, 57,
356.

Famine in 1770, 40.
Financial Statement, discussion of,

in Legislative Councils, III,
112, 117-18, 122, 236-7, 435-7
(see also Legislative Council of
the Governor-General).
Financial system, 159-60.
Fines, 185.

Foreign affairs, discussion of, in
Legislative Councils, 44, 236,
247, 441.

Foreign Department, the, 140.
Foreign Enlistment Act, 374, 378.
Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 52 and n.,
388-92.

Foreigners, jurisdiction over, 88

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204.

Governorship of Bengal no longer
vested in (1912), 128.
Powers of, to overrule his Council,
106; over Executive and
Legislative Councils, 102-3,
142, 146, 237, 250; to
appoint Lieutenant Gover-
nors, 96; over Native States,
145; over scheduled districts,
101, 240; over Military Com-
missions, 295-9; over nomina-
tions to Provincial Councils,
487.

Salary of, 252-3, 300.
Statutory Enactments regarding,
252-62.

Vacancy in office of, 133, 254-9.
(See also Governor-General in
Council, and Legislative
Council of the Governor-
General.)

Governor-General in Council: Exe-
cutive Council of the Governor-
General:

Appointed, 82-4, 94, 99, 138, 202.
Business of, 207-11.
Constitution of, 204-6.
Departments of, 139-40.
Executive Councils for provinces,

power to create, 110.
Head-quarters of, 134-5, 141.
High Courts' jurisdiction inopera-
tive over, 154, 275-6.
Legislative Councils' relations
with, 107, 224, 242-3.

Governor-General in Council (cont.):
Local Governments' duties to,
214, 220-4.

Meetings of, 206–7.

Members of, 83, 99, 110, 204-6;
leave of absence, 254.
Powers of, over :
Army, 155, 295-9.
Christians, grants to, 282.
High Courts' limits of jurisdic-
tion, 104, 154, 216, 274, 276–7.
Illicit correspondence, 288-90.
Local Governments, 104, 218-
23; over Bengal, 215.
Revenue, 159.
Territory, 417-28.
President of, 99, 211-12; Vice-
President, 70, 207.

Salaries of, 252, 300.

Secretary of State and Parlia-
ment, relations with, 178,
274, 290.

Statutory Enactments regarding,

202-13.

Vacancies in, 105, 254, 260.

High Courts, the Indian (cont.):

275-6; over Native Chris-
tians, 104, 154; in Native
States, 168, 372 ff.; over
Revenue, 268.
Law to be administered by, 53,

147-9, 154; in cases of in-
heritance and succession, 277;
over Christians in Native
States, 104, 154. 274.

New, power to appoint, 125.
Power of, over Subordinate
Courts, 273.

Privy Council, appeals to, 163.
Procedure of, civil, 87, 163, 362;
criminal, 87, 164, 362, 415-
16; in cases of oppression,
276.

Situation of, 163, 266; power to
alter, 274.

Statutory Enactments regarding,
265-79.

Hindu law, 57, 354 ff.; text-books,

368.

Hindu Wills Act, 363-4.

(See also Legislative Council of the Holland, trade rivalry with, 4, 8, 15.

Governor-General.)

Governors of factories, 16-18, 32,

42.

Grant, Charles, 78 n.

Guardians and Wards Act, 366.

Haileybury College, 76, 78; aboli-
tion of, 92.

Hardinge, Lord, 135.
Harington's Analysis of the Bengal
Regulations, quoted, 57, 72, 84,
355.
Hastings, Warren, Governor-
General of Bengal, 43, 45;
threatened resignation of, 50-1;
conflict with the Supreme Court
of Calcutta, 21, 55, 60-1; re-
lations with the Company, 63;
evidence in House of Commons,
74; plan of administration of
justice in Bengal, 278, 354 ff.
High Courts, the Indian:
Definition of, 292.

Establishment of, 3, 103, 151-2,

163.

Governor-General in Council's

powers regarding, 104, 154,
216, 274, 276–7.

Judges of, see Judges.
Jurisdiction of, 46, 152-4, 267;
over Governor-General in
Council, the Governor-Gen-
erals and Councils of Bengal,
Madras, and Bombay, 154,

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Holland's Jurisprudence cited, 292.
Hyde, 50.

Hyder Ali, 40.

Hyderabad, 165.

Illicit correspondence, 288-90.
Impey, Sir Elijah, 50, 55, 60.
India, definition of, 291-2.
Indian Waters, limits of, 228.
Inheritance, law regarding, 277,
356 ff.

Insolvency, law of, for presidency
towns, 90.

Interlopers, 17, 26, 31, 78, 88.
International law, 372 ff., 399.

James I, King, Charters of, 2, 12,
13, 385-6, 389.

James II, King, Charters of, 2, 16,

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Judges (cont.):

Salaries of, 253, 266.

Tenure of office, 153, 266.
Vacancies, 266-7.

Judicial Commissioners, Courts of,
163, 266.

Judiciary, see High Courts.

Jury, trial by, 14, 48, 164-5; Jurors
need not be Christians, 81.
Justices of the peace, 32, 48, 70;
powers of, 79; need not be
covenanted civilians, 81; juris-
diction of, over European
British subjects, 165.

Kathiawar, 165-6; status of, 293,
425-6.

Kaye, Sir J., quoted, 14 n., 66, 89.
Khojas, 370.

Lahore diocese, 157.
Laconia case, the, 401.

Land, acquisition of, by natural-
born subjects, 88; tenure and
transfer of, 365, 367.

Landholders, representation of, on
Legislative Councils, 118, 119,
471 ff.

Law administered in British India,
53, 147, 154; in cases of in- |
heritance and succession, 277;
over Christians in Native States,
104, 154, 274; over Mahome-
dans and Hindus, 56-7, 354 ff.
Civil and criminal procedure, 87,
163-4, 362, 369–71, 415-16.
Penal code, see that heading.
Law Commission, the, 86-7, 92, 362,
369.

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Law member of Council, first ap-
pointed, 83, 205.

Lawrence, Major, 33, 37.

Lawrence, Sir John, 219, 455, 457.
Laws, Indian, validity of, 251.
Lecky, W. E. H., quoted, 38, 40, 43.
Lee Warner, Sir William, 165, 167.
Legislative Council of the Governor-
General:

Constitution of, 91, 113-25, 142-3,

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Legislative Council of the Governor-
General (cont.):

Rules for business in:
Definitions, 434, 441-5.
Financial Statement or Budget,
121-4, 435-8; Schedules of
Revenue and Expenditure,
439-40.

Matters of general public in-
terest, 121, 124-5, 445-7;
excluded subjects, 124, 435.
Official majority necessary, 115.
Questions, 124-5, 445-7.
Quorum, 125, 226.

Statutory Enactments regarding,
224-40.

Validity of Indian Laws, 251; as-
sent of Crown and Governor-
General to, 101, 144, 237-40.
Legislative Councils, 114 (and see
Local Legislatures).

Lemaistre, --- . 50.

Levant Company, the, 11, 385-9.
Lex Loci Act, 358.

Licences for sale of spirit, 70; to
traders and missionaries, 75, 78,
80; abolished, 88.
Lieutenant-Governors, appointment
of,96,142 (and see Bihar, Burma,
Punjab, and United Provinces).
Limitation Act, 362.

Limits of provinces' power to alter,
104, 222; of presidency towns,
132, 224.

Loans to native princes prohibited,
71, 155, 284-5.
Local Governments:

Constitution of, 141-2.
Definition of, 291.

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