HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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and was entrusted with powers for the administration, of 

 justice and for the government of forts and factories. 31 



The greater part however of the subscribers desired to 

 trade upon a joint stock, and another Charter, dated on the 

 5th of the same month, formed this portion of the subscribers, 

 exclusive of the small remainder, into a Joint Stock Company 

 by the name of " The English Company trading to the East 

 Indies." By this last mentioned Charter the sole trade to 

 the East Indies was granted to the English Company 

 " together with such other persons and corporations only as 

 by the said Act of Parliament or Our Royal Charter or 

 Charters, in pursuance thereof, may lawfully trade or traffic 

 to the said East Indies," and similar powers to those con- 

 ferred upon the old or London Company for the government 

 of their forts and factories, the appointment of Governors 

 and other officers, the raising of Military forces, and the 

 establishment of Courts of J udicature, to consent if one person 

 learned in the civil laws and two merchants, were granted to 

 the English Company, who were further required to maintain 

 a Minister and Schoolmaster in the Island of St. Helena, 

 when it should come into their possession, and also a Minis- 

 ter and Schoolmaster in every garrison and superior factory 

 which the Company should have in the East Indies, and to 

 provide a decent and convenient place for Divine Service in 

 every such garrison and factory, and to take a Chaplain on 

 board every ship of 500 tons or upwards ; such Ministers to 

 be approved of by the Archbishop of Canterbury or the 

 Bishop of London, and to be obliged to learn within one 

 year after their arrival in India the Portuguese language, 

 and to apply themselves to learn the native language of the 

 country where they should reside, the better to enable them 



» Mill's British India, Book I, Chapter 5 ; Macaulay's History of Eng- 

 land, Chapter 23. 



