UNREPEALED AND UNEXPIRED

ACTS

OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF INDIA,

WITH

ABSTRACTS, MARGINAL AND FOOT NOTES,

A CATALOGUE OF ALL ACTS

REPEALED, AMENDED, EXPIRED, EXTENDED OR EXPLAINED,

AND

A SINGLE SYSTEMATIC AND FULL INDEX,

BY

GEORGE SMOULT FAGAN, ESQ.,

BARRISTER AT LAW,

AND

MAGISTRATE OF POLICE FOR THE TOWN OF CALCUTTA.

IN THREE VOLUMES,

VOL. II.

CALCUTTA :

G. C. HAY AND CO., 15, ESPLANADE ROW.

1862.

ACTS

OF THE

GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL.

ACT No. I OF 1855.

EXPIRED.

ACT No. II OF 1855.

1. Repeals Act X., 1835.

2-6. Courts and persons authorised to take evidence to take Judi-
cial notice of all Indian Regulations and Acts, of all public Acts of
Parliament, of their own officers, and of the names, titles, &c., of persons
filling certain offices, and of the divisions of time and place and of
war and
peace, and national flags.

7. Any Government Gazette to be proved by bare production.
8. Proclamations to be proved by production of Gazette and to be

prima facie proof of any public fact notified in them.

9. Recital in Acts to be primâ facie proof of facts recited. 10. Gazettes or newspapers to be primâ facie evidence of the authority under which the advertisement is published.

11. Books, maps and charts may be referred to as evidence in matters of public history.

12. Foreign Codes and Laws may be proved by books purporting to be published by authority of State.

13. Government Maps to be primâ facie evidence.

14. No persons to be incompetent to testify, but children under 7 years of age and insane persons; and they only in certain circumstances.

15-17. Children and persons of defective religious belief, may give evidence in writing or by simple affirmation, and shall be punished as for perjury if they give false evidence.

18. Interest in suit not to render a person incompetent to give evidence.

19. Any party to a civil proceeding may be examined as a witness and compelled to produce documents.

A

GENERAL.