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BILL

To amend the Law relating to the Appointment of Justices of the Peace, and of Juries, in the East Indies.

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HERCAS it is expedient that other Persons, besides the Preamble. covenanted Servants of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, or other British Inhabitants of the East Indies, should be capable of being appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace within and for the Towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay; Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,

s. 151.

and by the Authority of the same, THAT in the manner prescribed 33 G. 3. c.52. 10 by Law for the Nomination and Appointment of Persons now eligible 47 G. 3.c.68. to the office of Justice of the Peace in the Territories in the possession $.5. and under the government of the said Company, and subject, except as to the taking of any Oaths, to the other Provisions of the Law which relate to the said office, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor 15 General in Council of Fort William in Bengal, the Governor in Council of Fort Saint George, and the Governor in Council of Bombay, respecpectively for the time being, to nominate and appoint in the name of The King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, any Persons resident within the Territories aforesaid, and not being the Subjects of any 20 Foreign State, whom the said Governor General in Council and Governors in Council respectively shall think properly qualified, and who will bind themselves by such Oaths or solemn Affirmations as may

7 G. 4. c. 37. s. 3.

from time to time be prescribed in that behalf by the said Governor
General in Council and Governors in Council respectively, to act
within and for the Towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay respectively,
as Justices of the Peace; and the Persons so to be nominated and
appointed to act as Justices of the Peace within and for the Towns 5
aforesaid, shall have full power and authority to act as such Justices of
the Peace, but according only to the tenor of the respective Commis-
sions wherein such Persons shall be so nominated and appointed.

AND whereas by an Act passed in the Seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to re- 10 gulate the Appointment of Juries in the East Indies,” it is amongst other things provided and enacted, that the Grand Juries in all cases, and all Juries for the trial of Persons professing the Christian Religion, shall consist wholly of Persons professing the Christian Religion: AND whereas it is expedient to repeal such Enactment; BE it therefore Enacted, That from and after the

the said recited Provision and Enactment shall be and the same is hereby Repealed.

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