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fent on fervice, never returns, the falary is to be deemed 
to have ceafed from the day of his quitting the fettlement. 
The adf alfo prefcribes the order and method of condurt- 
ing bufinefis at the feveral council boards. Powers are 
given to the governor-general, or governor, to art contrary 
to the opinions of the other members of council, taking 
upon themfe'ves the foie refponfibility. Provifionis made 
in cafe of the abfence of the governor-general, and his 
visiting any fubordinate prefidency ; and, in cafe he (hall 
be in the field without a council, all the governments and 
officers thall obey his orders, and he alone fliall be refpon- 
fible. All the governments are laid under reftrirtions to 
prevent war or extenfion of dominion in India, unlefs hof- 
tilities againlf the company or their allies fliall render 
war unavoidable. The members of fubordinate govern¬ 
ments, arting contrary to this art, or to the directions of 
the government-general, may be fufpended or difmilfed 
by that government, and further punifhed. The fubor¬ 
dinate prelidencies are alfo required to communicate all 
matters of importance to the fuperior government with 
all difpatch. The governor-general, and other gover¬ 
nors, are veiled with powers of apprehending perfons, 
fufperted of illicit correfpondence with the enemies of 
the company or of Great Britain. Witnefl'es are to be 
examined, and crofs examined, and their evidence record¬ 
ed ; and the parties may either be tried in India, or fent 
home : in the latter cafe, the depofitions of the witnefl'es 
are alfo to be fent home, and are to be received in evi¬ 
dence, fubjeft to impeachment in refpert to the compe¬ 
tency of the witnefl'es. To the arting prefident of the fe¬ 
veral council boards is given a cafting vote, in all cafes 
of equality of voices. 
3. The dirertors are to appoint fo many cadets and wri¬ 
ters only, as to fupply vacancies according to returns 
from abroad. Their ages to be from fifteen to twenty- 
two, unlefs any cadet fliall have been one year in the 
king’s fervice, and then his age is not to exceed twenty- 
five years. All fliall have promotion by feniority of fer- 
vice only. Three years fervice qualifies a civil lervaat 
for a place of five hundred pounds a year; fix years for 
cue of fifteen hundred pounds a-year; nine years for one 
of three tbcufand pounds a-year; and twelve years for 
one of four thouland pounds or upwards. None to take 
two offices, where the joint emoluments fliall exceed this 
rule. Nearly the fame regulations are made by this fta- 
tute relative to receiving prefents, difobedience of orders, 
and bargaining for offices, as have been already mention¬ 
ed in -4 Geo. III. c. 15. All the king’s fubjerts are made 
amenable to all courts of competent jurifdirtion abroad 
and at home, for all crimes committed by them in India. 
The company may compound civil artions, but are ab(o- 
lutely rellrirted from compounding or remitting any 
judgment or fentence whatever in criminal cafes. Ser¬ 
vants of the company, after fi-ve years abfence, cannot re¬ 
turn with their rank, nor ferve again, unlefs, detained by 
ficknefs; or, unlefs it be by, leave of the company, on a 
baliot of three parts in four of the general court. In cafe 
of ficknels, the dirertors are the judges in the civil fer¬ 
vice ; and, in the military, the dirertors and the board of 
controul jointly. 
4. The company’s term is extended for twenty years, 
from March 1, 1794, fubjert to be determined at or after 
that period, on three years previous notice by parliament, 
iignified by thefpeaker of the houfeof commons; fubjert, 
however, as to the trade to and from India to the follow¬ 
ing limitations, in favour of fiuch private merchants as 
rnaychoofe to trade there. In other rel'pefts, and to and 
from China, and other places beyond the Cape of Good 
Hope, the former reftrirtions againft private traders are 
continued in force ; and, if the exclufive trade thus.limitr 
ed, fliall be hereafter difcontinued, the company are ftill 
to retain their corporate capacity with power to trade, 
with a joint flock in common with other people. If, how¬ 
ever, any new fettlement fliall be obtained from the Chi- 
aefe government, feparate from the continent of Alia, an 
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export trade thither is preferved to private merchant? 
under certain regulations; and there is alfo a claufe fo 
preferve to the l'outhern whalers the benefit of their car- 
rying trade into the Pacific Ocean, by the way of Cape 
Horn, to the northward of the equator, limited to 180 de¬ 
grees weft longitude of London : and (hips from Nootka- 
Sound are to be licenfed to trade from thence with Ja¬ 
pan and China ; but are not to bring any goods of tiie 
produce or manufarture of thofe countries to Great 
Britain. 
5. All perfons may export and import goods to and 
from India in the company’s (hips, except that they (hail 
not export military (lores, ammunition, mails, fpars, 
cordage, anchors, pitch, tar, or copper; nor import In¬ 
dia callicoes, dimities, muffins, or other piece-goods, 
made or manufactured with filk or cotton, or with fiik or 
cotton mixed, or with other mixed materials, unlefs it 
be done by leave of the company. If the market fliall 
not be fufficiently fuppiied with excepted articles of im¬ 
port or export, (with an exception of military (lores and 
copper,) the board of controul may open that trade alfo 
to individuals. If the company fliould not export fifteen 
hundred tons of copper annually, private traders may ex¬ 
port copper, in the company’s (hips, to the amount of 
the deficiency. The company were to furnifti private 
traders, till 1796, with three thouland tons, of (hipping 
yearly, computed on the fame principle as the company’s 
own tonnage is computed.. The quantity might be in- 
creafed by order of the board of controul, to meet the de¬ 
mands of the private traders;, and, if the board order more 
than the company approve, they may appeal from the 
order to the king in council. And the company are re^» 
llrirted from charging any higher freight than five pounds 
per ton outwards, and fifteen pounds per ton inwards j 
except in time of war, or in ciicumftances incidental to 
war, or preparations for war, when they may charge an 
increafed rate of freight, in a due proportion to the rates 
at which they (hall take up their own (hipping; but the 
propofed increafe can only be made by the confent of 
the board of controul, before whom the. dirertors were 
alfo required, in 1794, and in every third year afterwards, 
to lay a ftatement of the affairs of (hipping ; and to abide 
by their order, touching any continuance, increafe, or 
abatement, of the rate of freight on private trade. Pri¬ 
vate traders are required to notify to the company’s fe>- 
cretary at home, and to the proper officers in India, at a 
time limited, the quantity of. tonnage wanted by them 
for the enfuing fieafon, with the place of dellination, and 
the time when the goods will be ready for (hipping. At 
home, this notice is to be given before the 31 it of Auguft 
for the (hips of the enfuing leafon, and before the 15th 
cf September they are to depolit the fum for. the tonnage, 
or give fecurity to the dirertors for payment of it. Before 
the 30th of Ortober they are to deliver a lift of the forts 
and quantities of the goods intended to be fent. In fai¬ 
lure of having them ready, by the day l'pecified in the 
notice, they are to forfeit their depolit or the fecurity, 
and alfo their tonnage for that turn. Similar rules are 
prefcribed for (hipping goods, &c. in India; hut it is left 
to the governments there to fix the times,, and to name 
the officers, to whom notices are to be given. The com¬ 
pany is to have the benefit of all forfeited and vacant 
tonnage; and, if more is demanded for private trade than 
the quantity limited, every perfon is to have his due pro¬ 
portion, and notice is to be given him thereof feven days 
before the day for making the depofits. All private trade 
is to be regiltered in the company’s books, and, in default 
of being regiftered, it is to be confldered as illicit trade, 
and punifliable accordingly. 
The reftrirtions of the law againft the company’s fer- 
vants, or others, from arting as factors for foreigners, or 
lending money to foreign companies, or on bottomry of 
their (hips, or affifting them with remittances by bills, 
are repealed. And all legal impediments to the recovery 
of debts, under any pretence that they were.incurred il¬ 
licitly, 
