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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



How the question was disposed of by the Governor- General 

 in Council I do not know, but according to the Koyal Warrants 

 which have regulated precedence in India for the last 40 years 

 at least, all ladies take place according to the rank assigned 

 to their respective husbands, with the exception of wives of 

 peers and ladies having precedence in England independently 

 of their husbands, who take place according to their several 

 ranks after the wives of Members of Council. These Warrants 

 gave the Chief Justices and Bishops of Calcutta, Madras, and 

 Bombay precedence not only of the Commanders-in-Chief at 

 their respective Presidencies, but also of the Commander-in- 

 Chief in India, down to 1871, when the Commander-in-Chief 

 in India was given precedence of the Chief Justice in Bengal, 

 and the Bishops of Madras and Bombay were put below the 

 Commanders-in-Chief at their Presidencies, who were further 

 exalted in 1876 by being given precedence of the Chief 

 Justices of Madras, Bombay, and the North- Western 

 Provinces. 



The territories subject to or dependent upon the Grovern- 

 ment of Madras at the time of the establishment of the 

 Supreme Court were, with almost the sole exception of 

 Kurnool, which was annexed in 1839, the same as those now 

 included in that description. The acquisition between 1759 

 and 1766 of the Northern Circars and Chingleput has already 

 been noticed. Malabar, Dindigul, Salem, and the Baramahal 

 were ceded to the East India Company by Tippoo Sultan in 

 1792, and seven years afterwards another great increase to 

 the Company's territories in Southern India was made in 

 consequence of the taking of Seringapatam and death of 

 Tippoo. It was then agreed by a treaty made between the 

 Company and the Nizam and dated the 22nd June 1799 that 

 the districts of Canara, Coimbatore, and Wynaad, together 

 with the heads of all the passes leading from the territory of 

 the late Tippoo Sultan to any part of the possessions of the 



