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INDIAN COUNCILS ACT, 1874 INDIAN COUNCILS ACT, 1874 91 of 1874 7th August, 1874 An Act to amend the law relating to the Council of the Governor General of India. Preamble and enacting words: Rep.. (U. K.) 56 & 57 Vict., c. 54 (S.L.R.). SECTION 01: NUMBER OF ORDINARY MEMBERS OF GOVERNOR GENERAL'S COUNCIL MAY. BE INCREASED -It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she shall see fit, to increase the number of the ordinary members of the Council of the Governor General of India to six, by appointing any person, from time to time, by warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, to be an ordinary member of the said Council in addition to the ordinary members thereof appointed under section 3 of "The Indian Councils Act, 1861", and under section 8of the Act of the thirty-second and thirty-third years of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-seven. The law for the time being in force with reference to ordinary members of the Council of the Governor General of India shall apply to the person so appointed by Her Majesty under this Act.1* * *