Appendix to the Bombay Courier : Anno tertio & quarto Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. LXXXV. An act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government of His Majesty's Indian territories, till the thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Great Britain.
Laurie, Joseph,-1870,former owner.StEdNL
[Bombay : Bombay Courier,
1833]
Text of British government act of 1833 known as the Saint Helena Act or The Government of India Act or Charter Act, reprinted as an appendix to the newspaper The Bombay Courier. The act made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India, and ended the activities of the East India Company as a commercial body, giving it purely administrative powers which were to last until 1854.
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On page 23: printed at the Courier Press, by Sorabjee Dorabjee.
One of six pamphlets bound in a volume belonging to Rev. Joseph Laurie D.D., who in 1833 become senior chaplain (minister) at Bombay.
East India Company
India Mumbai.