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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



to the future prosperity of the British Territories in Bengal 

 that all regulations passed by Government affecting the 

 rights, properties or persons of the subjects should be formed 

 into a regular code and printed with translations in the 

 country languages, and that the grounds of every regula- 

 tion be prefixed to it, and that the Courts of J ustice within 

 the provinces be bound to regulate their decisions by the 

 rules and ordinances which such regulations might contain 

 whereby the Native inhabitants might be made acquainted 

 with the privileges and immunities granted to them by the 

 British Government, and the mode of obtaining speedy 

 redress for any infringement of the same ; 91 and that it was 

 essential that so wise and salutary a provision should be 

 strictly observed, and that it should not be in the power of 

 the Grovernor-Greneral in Council to neglect or to dispense 

 with the same, it was enacted that all regulations which 

 should be issued and framed by the Grovernor-Greneral in 

 Council at Fort "William in Bengal affecting the rights, 

 persons or property of the Natives or of any other indivi- 

 duals who might be amenable to the Provincial Courts of 

 Justice should be registered in the Judicial Department and 

 formed into a regular code and printed with translations 

 in the country languages, and that the grounds of each 

 regulation should be prefixed to it, and that all the Provincial 

 Courts of Judicature should be and they were thereby 

 directed to be bound by and to regulate their decisions by 

 such rules and ordinances as should be contained in the said 

 regulations, and that the Governor-General in Council should 

 annually transmit to the Court of Directors of the East India 

 Company ten copies of such regulations as might be passed 

 in each year and the same number to the Board of Commis- 

 sioners for the affairs of India. 



91 Bengal Regulation XLI of 1793. A similar provision formed the subject 

 of the first Madras Regulation I of 1802. 



