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such provinces and districts as might at any time thereafter 

 be annexed and made subject to the Presidency of Fort 

 William. Th\s so far, at all events as it concerned the settle- 

 ments on the Coast of Coromandel, was obviously inexpedient, 

 and it was therefore enacted by the Statute 6 Q-eo. IV, c. 85, 

 s. 19, that it should be lawful for His Majesty by Letters 

 Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain to make such 

 provisions for the administration of justice in the Island of 

 Singapore and the Town and Fort of Malacca and its depen- 

 dencies as he might have done if the Statute 39 and 40 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 79, had never been made or passed; and, by section 20, 

 that from and after the first day of J anuary 1826 the colonies, 

 possessions, and establishments which had been ceded to His 

 Majesty by the King of the Netherlands and which were 

 situate on the Coast of Coromandel or in the Northern Circars, 

 and all the inhabitants of the said colonies, possessions, and 

 establishments, and all other persons being therein, should 

 cease to be subject to and should be wholly exempt from the 

 jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court of Judicature in 

 Bengal, and that the said colonies, possessions, and establish- 

 ments, and all the inhabitants thereof, and all other persons 

 being therein, should be subject and amenable to the jurisdic- 

 tion and authority of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort 

 Saint George, in like manner as any other place being or 

 deemed to be a factory subordinate to the Government of Fort 

 Saint George and the inhabitants thereof, whether Europeans 

 or Natives, as the case might be, was or were or ought to be 

 liable and amenable thereto. And it was further enacted (s. 21 ) 

 that it should be lawful for the Court of Directors of the East 

 India Company to declare and appoint that the said Island of 

 Singapore and the said Town and Fort of Malacca and its 

 dependencies and the colonies, possessions, and establishments 

 so ceded as aforesaid, or any of them, should cease to be 

 factories or a factory subordinate to the Presidency of Fort 



