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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met on l
Tuesday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall ; present, the
Right Hons. Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Sir James Parke,
Sir John Bosanq net, Thomas Erskine, Sir Alexander
Johnston, and Sir Edward East. The Hon. William
Bathurst was the Clerk of the Cannel! in Waiting. The
appeal "The Bank of Bengal v. the East India Company"
was resumed. The case has arisen out of the extensive
forgeries at Bengal, and although the amount in dispute in
the present instance is but emall, yet the decision is of
great importance, as there are a number of transactions of
a similar nature.
The counsel for the appellants contended that the East
India Company were liable for notes signed by their
authorized officer. In the case of "Brice and Co. v. the
East India Company," tried in the Supreme Court of
Madras, there was no objection made either to the juris-
diction or the liability. This was not a debt contracted
between sovereign and subject, as the King of Great
Britain was the sovereign, and it was absurd to suppose
that the debt was contracted on behalf of the state of Great
Britain ; but it was merely between the bank and a
trading corporation. The laws were the same in the
matters of partnerships and in corporations for the pur-
poses of trade. A great many sections from different Acts
of Parliament were quoted, as applying to the mode of
conducting the affairs of the Company. Conclusive evi-
dence had been produced to show the recognition of the
note by the East India Company, since it appeared that
when the plaintiff was about to advance money on the note
in question, he inquired at the proper office of the East
India Company if the note was genuine. The answer was
in the affirmative'. This was a recognition by the proper
constituted authority, and as conclusive evidence of this
recognition had been produced, the question of forgery (as
regarded the nate) was immateri el.
The Right Hon. Thomas Erskine gave judgment on the
part of their Lordships. This was an action for three
bills against the East India Company, as indorsees. The
instruments proved to be forged, although bona fide dis-
counted by the plaintiffs, who had sent to the office of the
Accountant-General, where such notes are registered, and
that clerk, whose deity it was to examine them, declared
them genuine. Upon this certificate the plaintiffs ad-
vanced their money. The company state that the clerk
had no authority to give effect to promissory notes, which
were not so in fact, even admitting that the clerk bad
acknowledged them to be genuine. The authority of the
clerk to authenticate promissory notes had not been made
out. These notes were always signed by the Secretary to
the Government, and were also checked by several other
officers in a formal way. Authority had been given in
1824 to the clerk to keep the register and examine the
notes, and he bad been in the habit of putting his
initials, which showed that he found they agreed with the
register, and that be considered them genuine, but the
Company had not authorized the clerk to give validity to
notes ; the caution practised by the Company in not
paying even the interest of their notes without examina-
tion by two of their servants, proved that the Company
could not contemplate giving authority to one servant to
authenticate their notes.
The decree of the Court below was therefore affirmed.