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they pleafe, appoint eventual fucceflors to the governor and command- 

 er of the forces at each fettlement The orders and refokuions of the 



court of dired:ors, if approved by the board of commiffioners, are no 

 longer liable to be reverfed by a court of proprietors. — The governor- 

 general and his council are inverted with power to controul the other 

 prefidencies in matters relating to the native princes, and to war or 

 peace, or in any other matters to be referred to them by the board of 

 directors ; except in matters, upon which the fubordinate prefidencies 

 fliall have received pofitive contrary orders from the court of diredors 

 or from the fecret committee. — * And whereas to purfue fchemes of 

 * conquefl and extenfion of dominion in India are meafures repugnant 

 ' to the wiih, the honour, and policy, of this nation,' the governor- 

 general is prohibited from commencing hortilities, or entering into any 

 treaty for making war, againfl any of the princes of the country, unlefs 

 fuch prince fliall have begun hoflilities, or made preparations for hoflili- 

 ties, againfl the company, or any prince or flate dependent vipon, or 

 under the guarantee of, the company The governors of the fubordin- 

 ate fettlements are to tranfmit accounts of all their proceedings to the 

 governor-general, as well as to the court of directors at home ; and they 

 are not to enter into any wars or treaties, except in cafes of ludden 

 emergency or imminent danger, without orders from him ; and in cafe 



of difobedience he is empowered to fufpend them and their councils 



The court of directors are directed to inquire into the debts of the na- 

 bob of Arcot, and to give orders, in concert with him, for eftablifhing 

 proper funds for the difcharge of fuch of them as are found to be juftly 

 due ; to fettle the claims and pretenfions fubfifting between the nabob 

 of Arcot and the rajah of Tanjore, according to the principles of the 

 treaty between them ; and to do juftice to the native landholders of va- 

 rious defcriptions, who have complained of extortion or opprefiion 



The diredors are alfo required to make every pofTible retrenchment in 

 the expenditure of their eflablifhments in India ; and they are reflrided 

 from fending out any greater number of writers and cadets, or perfons 

 in any other capacity, than may be necefTary to keep up the proper 

 complement of officers or fervants upon the eflablifhment, agreeable to 

 the returns of vacancies received from India — All promotions, civil or 

 military, in India, under the degrees of counfelors and commanders in 

 chief, are in future to go on in the regular progreflion of feniority, un- 

 lefs the governor of the fettlement fees urgent reafons to ad otherways, 

 which reafons, with all the circumflances of the cafe, muft be entered 

 in the minutes of confultation, and tranfmitted to the diredors Hence- 

 forth no perfon is to go out in the capacity of a writer or cadet, whofe 

 age is under fifteen, or above twenty-two years, except officers, who 

 have ferved at leafl one year in the army, the miUtia, or fencibles, who 

 may be appointed, if not above twenty-five years of age. — All Britifh 



