HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



Ill 



either by the Legislature originally, or by the Government 

 when the order was framed. 74 



Power was subsequently given by the Statute 55 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 84, s. 1, to the Governments of Fort William, Madras, 

 and Bombay to extend the limits of their respective Presi- 

 dency Towns from time to time as circumstances should in 

 their judgment require ; but this power has not been exer- 

 cised in Madras, and the local limits of the jurisdiction of 

 the High Court are the same now as those that were fixed 

 for the Court of the Eecorder more than eighty years ago. 75 



The above-mentioned provisions of the Statute 33 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 52, by which power was given to the Governor- General 

 in Council to appoint Justices of the Peace for Madras and 

 Bombay, were repealed in 1807 by the Statute 47 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 68, which declared the Governors and Members of Council 

 for the time being of Fort St. George and Bombay, respec- 

 tively, to be and to have full power and authority to act 

 as Justices of the Peace for the Towns of Madras and 

 Bombay, respectively, and for the several settlements and 

 factories subordinate thereto, respectively, and to do and 

 transact all matters and things which to the office of a Justice 

 or Justices of the Peace do belong and appertain; and for 

 that purpose to hold Quarter Sessions within the said settle- 

 ments of Fort St. George and Bombay, respectively, four 

 times in every year, and that the same should respectively 

 be at all times Courts of Record. And it was further enacted 

 that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council of 

 Fort St. George and the Governor in Council of Bombay, re- 

 spectively, for the time being by commissions issued under the 

 seals of the Supreme Court of J udicature of Fort St. George 



74 Compton v. Gahagan, Strange's Notes of Cases at Madras, vol. ii, p. 8. 



75 Reg. II of 1802, s. 12 ; General Rules of the Supreme Court, 1849, No. 

 VIII ; Charter of the High Court, 26th June 1862, cl. 11 ; Amended Letters 

 Patent, 28th December 1865, cl. 11. 



