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.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....of Fort William in Bengal, and from time to time, as occasion may require, to revoke and alter in the whole or in part such appointment, and to make such new distribution of the same as to them shall seem fit and expedient, subject nevertheless in all cases to the superintendence, direction and control of the commissioners for the Affairs of India, in like manner as any acts or order of the said court of directors are now by law subject; and all such territorial acquisitions, and the revenues arising therefrom and the establishment of civil servants connected therewith, shall from and after the time, and subject as to such time to the conditions and limitations to be by the said court of directors limited and appointed for such purposes respectively, be to all intents and purposes whatsoever annexed to and made subject to such presidency, and to the court or courts of judicature established or to be established therein respectively.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....time to time by his Majesty, his heirs and successors, with full power to exercise such civil criminal admiralty and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, both as to natives and British subjects, and to be invested with such power and authorities, privileges and immunities, for the better administration of the same, and subject to the same limitations, restrictions and control within the said Fort Saint George and town of Madras and the limits thereof and the factories sub ordinate thereto, and within the territories which now are or hereafter may be subject to or dependent upon the said government of Madras, as the said supreme court of judicature at Fort William in Bengal, by virtue of any law now in force and unrepealed or by this present Act, doth consist of, is invested with or subject to, within the said Fort William or the kingdoms or provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionProvided always that the governor and council at Madras and the governor general of Fort William aforesaid shall enjoy the same exemption and no other, from the authority of the said supreme court of judicature to be there erected, as is enjoyed by the said governor general and council at Fort William aforesaid from the jurisdiction of the supreme court of judicature there already by law established.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepealed 44 & 56 Vict., c. 19 (S.L.R.); Repealed also as to B.I. by XIV of 1870, Section 1 and schedule.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1 [5. * * * Transfer of powers of recorder of Madras to supreme court All powers and authorities granted by the said Act of the thirtyseventh of his present Majesty to the said courts of the recorder at Madras * * *2 shall and may be exercised by the supreme court of judicature to be erected by virtue of this Act, in the manner and to the extent hereinbefore directed. ____________________________ 1. Words repealed by 55 & 56 Vict., c. 19 (S. L. R.), have been omitted. 2. So much of the section as related to the commencement of salaries was repealed, 53 Geo. 3, c. 155, Section 89.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRep. 55 & 56 Vict., c. 19 (S.L.R.); Repealed also as to B. I. by XIV of 1870, Section 1 and sch.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAnd * * *1all such salaries shall be in lieu of all fees of office, perquisites, emoluments and advantages whatsoever; and * * *2no fees of office, perquisites, emoluments or advantages whatsoever shall be accepted, received or taken in any manner or on any account or pretence whosoever, other than such salaries and allowances as are in and by this Act directed to be paid. ____________________________ 1. So much of the section as related to the commencement of salaries was repealed, 53 Geo. 3, c. 155, Section 89. 2. The word "that" was repealed (U.K.) by 51&52 Vict., c. 3 (S.L.R.).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRep. as to B. I. by XIV of 1870, Section 1 and sch.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionProvided always * * that when either of the judges of the supreme court of judicature at Fort William, or of the supreme court of judicature which his Majesty is hereby empowered to erect at Madras, or the recorder of Bombay, shall respectively leave India, the salary now payable or which may become payable under and by virtue of this Act to any such judge or recorder respectively shall cease and be no longer paid, anything herein or in any former Act or Acts contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
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