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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



of their subjects or people, in the same manner as if the same 

 had been done or committed within the territories directly 

 subject to and under the British Government in India. This 

 Act also established a Parliamentary Court of Judicature for 

 the more speedy and effectual trial of persons accused of 

 offences committed in the East Indies, and required all the 

 servants of the Company, upon their return from India, to 

 give an inventory of the property which they had realized in 

 that country ; a provision which was repealed by the 26 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 57, s. 31. 



By the 26 Greo. Ill, c. 16, the provision that the Commander- 

 in-Chief should ex-officio be a member of Council was repealed, 

 and chiefly with a view to the appointment of Lord Corn- 

 wallis to be Governor- General and Commander-in-Chief, it, 

 was declared that nothing in this or any former Act contained 

 should extend to preclude the Court of Directors from 

 appointing the Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces 

 in India to be Governor- General or a Member of the Supreme 

 Council ; or from appointing the Commanders-in- Chief of 

 Fort St. George and Bombay to be Presidents or Members 

 of the Councils of their respective Presidencies ; or from 

 appointing any Governor-General or Governor to be a 

 Commander-in-Chief. 



By the 26 Geo. Ill, c. 57, several alterations were made in 

 the constitution of and method of procedure in the Parliamen- 

 tary Court established by 24 Geo. Ill, c. 25. It was enacted 

 (s. 29) that as well the servants of the said United 

 Company as all other of His Majesty's subjects resident in 

 India should be amenable to the Courts of Oyer and 

 Terminer and Gaol Delivery, and Courts of General or 

 Quarter Sessions of the Peace in any of the British Settle- 

 ments in India for all murders, felonies, wrongs and other 

 misdemeanors, offences, and injuries whatsoever by them 

 done, committed or perpetrated in any of the countries or 

 parts of Asia, Africa, or America, beyond the Cape of Good 



