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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



should proceed to give such final sentence or judgment, or to 

 make such interlocutory or final orders and decrees touching 

 such debts and demands, and the costs of suit, as to them should 

 appear agreeable to justice, equity, and good conscience, and 

 that causes should be proceeded in by examination of parties 

 and evidence in the same manner as such causes were directed 

 to be proceeded in by the instructions sent by the Court of 

 Directors for regulating the proceedings in the Court of 

 Requests in the year 1753, excepting in so far as the said 

 instructions were or might be altered or new modelled by this 

 proclamation, or by the rules for the regulation of the Court 

 approved by Government on the day of the date of the 

 proclamation, or which might thereafter be made for regula- 

 ting its proceedings. The Court itself was altered and new 

 modelled by Act IX of 1850, which provided that the several 

 Courts of Commissioners and of Requests for the recovery of 

 small debts then holden in the Towns of Calcutta, Madras, 

 and Bombay under the authority of the Charter of Geo. II 

 and of the Statutes 37 Greo. Ill, c. 142, and 39 and 40 

 Greo. Ill, c. 179, and of the regulations and proclamations 

 made from time to time for constituting and for new model- 

 ling, altering, and reforming the constitution and practice of 

 the said Courts respectively, and of Act XII of 1848, 109 should 

 be holden according to the provisions of Act IX of 1 850 

 from and after such several days as should be declared with- 

 in the said towns by proclamation to be made and published 

 in each of the said towns by the Governor in Council. 



In pursuance of this provision, the 6th December 1850 

 was fixed by a proclamation dated 19th November 1850 as the 

 day from and after which the Court of Commissioners for the 

 recovery of small debts then holden in the Town of Madras 

 should be holden according to the provisions of Act IX of 1850. 



loo j\j r better defining the jurisdiction of the Court of Requests at Calcutta . 



