HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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British subjects. In the case of a British subject residing 

 in the provinces being charged with a criminal offence, he 

 was to be apprehended by the Magistrate and sent to the 

 Supreme Court at Madras for trial. 104 



The Sudder Adawlut was at first empowered to appoint 

 such vakeels or pleaders of the Mahomedan or Hindoo per- 

 suasion as might appear to them necessary to plead the causes 

 of the parties in suits in the Sudder Adawlut, Provincial 

 Courts of Appeal, and Zillah Courts, but shortly afterwards 

 the several Courts were empowered to appoint their own 

 vakeels. 105 



The restriction to Mahomedans and Hindoos was rescinded 

 by Eegulation IY of 1832, s. 4. 



In 1806 the jurisdiction of the Courts of Sudder and 

 Foujdary Adawlut was vested in two Judges, not being 

 members of the Government, under the occasional superin- 

 tendence of the Governor, instead of in the Governor and 

 Members of Council ; and about eighteen months afterwards 

 it was ordered that these Courts should in future consist of a 

 Chief Judge, being a Member of the Council but not the 

 Governor or Commander-in-Chief, and of three Puisne 

 J udges to be selected from among the Company's Covenanted 

 Servants, 106 



This, with the slight modification that the Governor in 

 Council* was empowered by "Regulation III of 1825 to 

 appoint additional Judges whenever he might deem it expe- 

 dient, continued to be the constitution of these two Courts 

 down to the time when the High Court was established. 



w* Regulation VI of 1802, IV of 1809. 



105 Regulation X of 1802, VII of 1809; XIV of 1816 ; and see also Regu. 

 lation V of 1817 and Acts XXVII of 1836, I of 1846, XX of 1853, XX 

 of 1865, XXIX of 1865, and XVIII of 1879. 



106 Regulation IV of 1806, I of 1807, and III of 1807. 



