HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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Hope to the Straits of Magellan, within the limits of the 

 exclusive trade of the said United Company. And it was 

 further enacted and declared (s. 30) that the Governor or 

 President and Council of Fort St. George for the time being, 

 in their Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery and 

 Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace, and also the 

 Mayor's Court at Madras according to their several and 

 respective judicatures, should have cognizance and jurisdiction 

 as well civil as criminal, over all British subjects whatsoever 

 who then resided or should thereafter reside within any of 

 the forts, factories, towns, lands or territories in the possession 

 of the Company on the Coast of Coromandel, or in any other 

 part of the Carnatic or the five Northern Circars including 

 those parts of the said Circars which lie within the Kingdom 

 or Province of Orissa, or within any of the dominions or 

 territories of the Soubahdar of the Deccan, the Nabob of 

 Arcot, or the Rajah of Tan j ore. 



In 1793 the British Law relating to India and to the East 

 India Company was to a considerable extent consolidated by 

 the 33 Geo. Ill, c. 52, commonly called the Charter Act. A 

 great part of the former Statutes was repealed (s. 146) ; 

 the possession of the territorial acquisitions and revenue and 

 the exclusive trade were continued in the Sast India Company 

 until the expiration of three years ; notice to be given by 

 Parliament at any time after 1st March 1811, and payment of 

 what might be due from the Public to the Company ; the Board 

 of Control was reconstituted ; the Government of Bengal 

 was vested in a Governor- General and three Councillors, and 

 the Governments of Madras and Bombay respectively in a 

 Governor and three Councillors ; 71 and the Governor- General 



71 By the 39 and 40 Geo. Ill, c. 79, s. 1, the Court of Directors were 

 empowered to declare and appoint what parts of the territorial acquisitions of 

 the Company should be subject to each Presidency, and the Courts of Judica- 

 ture established therein respectively. 



