Government of India Act, 1800 [Repealed] Preamble 1 - Bare Act

Act Info:

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1800

[Act, No. 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 79]

[28th July, 1800]

PREAMBLE

An Act for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the British Territories in India, and the better Administration of Justice within the same.

Whereas the territorial possessions of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, in the peninsula of India, have become so much extended as to require further regulations to be made for the due government of the same:

and whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of his pres­ent Majesty, intituled, "An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term the posses­sion of the British territories in India, together with their exclusive trade, under certain limitations, for establishing further regulations for the government of the said territories and the better administration of justice within the same, for appropriating to certain uses the revenues and profits of the said company, and for making provision for the good order and government of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bom­bay", it is enacted, that the whole civil and military government of the presidency of Fort Saint George on the coast of Coromandel, and the ordering management and government of all the territorial acquisi­tions and revenues on the said coast, and also so much and such parts of the territories and possessions on the coast of Orissa with the revenues of the same as had been and then were under the administration of the government or presidency of Fort Saint George, should be and were thereby vested in a governor and three counsellors of and for the said presidency of Fort Saint George, subject to such rules, regulations and restrictions as were therein mentioned; and that the whole civil and military government of the presi­dency and island of Bombay on the coast of Malabar, and the ordering, management and government of all the territorial acquisitions and revenues on the said coast of Malabar, should be and were thereby vested in a governor and three counsellors of and for the said presidency and island of Bombay, subject to the provision therein mentioned.