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TEE NEW INDIA BILL,

Foyernmen'

The following is an abstract of the
of India Bill (No. 2) :
A. Bill to T
ast ransfer the
Company toe f
Majesty the

Queen.
Whereas by an act of the session holden in the
'
16th and 17th years of her Majesty, chap. 95 "to
provide for the government of India," the terri-
tories in the possession and under the government
of the Eist India Company were continued under
such government, in trust for her Majesty, until
parliament should otherwise provide, subject to the
provisions of that act and of other acts of parlia-
ment, and the property and rights in the said act
referred to are held by the said company in trust for
her Majesty for the purpose of the said government,
and whereas it is expedient that the said territories
should be governed by and in the name of her Ma-
jesty ; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com-
mons, in this present parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows ; that is to

say,
B.A.NSFER. OF THE VOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO HER
gAJESTY.
I. Territories under the government of the East
Ildia Company to be vested in her Majesty.
IT India to be governed by and in the name of
her iisjesty.
111. Secretary of State to exercise powers now
excrcised.by the company or Board of Control.
Four principal Secretaries and four Under
Secretaries of State may sit in the House of Con'
mons.
V. Seat of President of Board of Control in the
House of Commons not vacated by his appoint-
ment to the Secretaryship of State.
VI. Salaries of one Secretary of State and his
mnder secretaries to be paid out of the revenue of
India.
VII. Until appointment of Secretary of State,
PresAent of Board of Control to act.
COUNCIL OF INDIA.
VIII. For the purposes of this act a council shall
be established, to consist of eighteen members, and
to be styled the Coincil of India; and henceforth
the council in India DOW bearing that name shall
be styled the Council of the Governor-General of
India.
IX. The thirteen persons hereinafter name.),

shitil, be members of the said council from the com-
mencement of this act, and such persons and their
successors respectively are hereinafter designated
as the first member of the council, the second mem-
ber of the council, and so on progressively in the
order in which such persons are hereinbefore
named, and the remaining members hereinafter
designated as the fourteenth, fifkeentb, sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth members respectively,
shall be elected as hereinafter mentioned, as soon
as conveniently may be after the commencement
of this act.
X. Upon every vacancy in any of the offices of
the nine members of the council first named in this
act, and their successors, it shall be lawful for her
Majesty, by warrant under her Royal sign manual,
to appoint some other person to such office, quali-
fied as hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) : the
first member to be a person who has been ten years
at least in such civil service of the government of
India in the north-western provinces, or in terri-
tories under the direct authority of the Governor-
General in council ; the second member to be a
person who has been ten years at least in such civil
service in the lower provinces of Bengal ; the third
and fourth members respectively to be persons who
have been ten years at least in such civil service is
the Madras and Bombay presidencies respectively.
The fifth member to be a person who has been ten
years at least in India in the service of the govern-
meutof India, and who during five years at least of
such period has served as political agent or resident
in any of the native states. The sixth member to
be a person who has served for five years at least in
her Majesty's army in India. And the seventh,
eighth, and ninth members respectively to be per-
sons who have served ten years at least in the
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies respectively.
XI. Every vacancy in any of the offices of the
tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth members
of the council shall be supplied by persons to be
elected as hereinafter mentioned from among per-
sons who have been ten years at least in India, in
the service of her Majesty or of the government
of India in any department, whether legal, civil,
naval, or military, or who have been fifteen years
at least resident in India ; and the persons qualified
to vote in the election of such members shall be—
an proprietors of one thousand pounds or upwards
in the capital stock of the East India Company ;
all proprietors of capital stock or paid up capital in
any company incorporated by act of Parliament for
making any railway or other public work in India
to the amount of two thousand pounds or upwards :
all persons who have been ten years at least iu
India as commissioned officers in the military ser-
vice of her Majesty, or in the military or naval ser-
vice.of the East India Company, or as civil servants
of the East India Company, or in the civil service
of her Majesty : provided always, that no person
shall be entitled to vote in the election of any such
member as aforesaid unless he have been qualified
as aforesaid for six months before the election, and
be resident in the United Kingdom, and be regis-
tered according to the regulations hereinafter men-
tioned. _ _

XII. The fourteenth member of the council shalt
be from time to time elected by the persons entitled
to vote in the election of members to serve in Par-
liament for the city of London. The fifteenth mem-
ber of the council shall be from time to time elected
by the persons entitled to vote in the election of
members to serve in Parliament for the city of Man-
chester. The sixteenth member of the council
shall be from time to time elected by the persons
entitled to vote in the election of members to serve
in Parliament for the borough of Liverpool. The
seventeenth member of the council shall be from
time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote
in the election of members to serve in Parliament
for the city of Glasgow : And the eighteenth mem-
ber of the council shall be from time to time elected
by the persons entitled to vote in the election of
members to serve in Parliament for the borough of
Belfast : And no person shall be elected such four-
teenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, or eigh-
teenth member unless he shall have been during five
years at least engaged in the commerce between
India and the United Kingdom, or in the manu-
facture of goods for exportation to India, or have
been ten years at least resident in India : For the
election of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth members of the coun-
cil, warrants shall be forthwith, af. er the com-
mencement of this act, and from time to time
thereafter, as occasion may require, issued by one
of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
to the returning officers to whom writs for the
election of members to serve in Parliament
for the said cities and boroughs respectively
are by law required to be issued • and such
elections of members of the council shall be
conducted and had in like manner as elections of
members to serve in Parliament, and the return to
such warrants shall be made to the Secretary of
State ; and all laws concerning the expenses of
such last-mentioned elections and otherwise in
relation to such elections, so far as the same are
appliosblo, shall extend to the elections of such
members of the council.
XIII. Six of the first members of the council
appointed by and elected under this act shall go out
of office at the expiration of two years from the
commencement of this act, and six others of such
first members shall go out of office at the expiration
of four years from such commencement, and the
remaining six of such members shall go out of office
at the expiration of six years from such commence-
lA. The members to go out of office at the ex-
Piutiou of such two years, and four years shall in.
Q° 468 t4l euse be three of the nine members first named
his act, and three members from among the
members
memberserelectelast named in this act, and the fir.t
members
dnitt3tender this act, and such nine
first-named shall determine by ballot
among themselves wshich of their number shall be
the three memberyse
to gooffice
of at the expira-
tion of such two ars and four years respectively,
and such four last-mentioned members embers and first
elected members shall determine
among
methemselvesber
which of their number shall be the three
to go out of office at the expiration of such two
Years respectively ; and the Secretary of State shall
preside at the taking of every such ballot as afore-
said..
XIV. Every parsed appointed or elected to fill
lk"nteancY occasioned by the expiration of the term
—:e of a member of the council shall be ap
sovaimi,
from or
etxhpeutaetrl
omnof
andsix years, to be
t such
appointed or electedevery person
whose office has become
the place of a mem-
berby the expiration of hire void otherwise than
appointed or elected for th of °Toe, shall be
term : And-every person -eeasi„,a,aoTawel,v of
u such
re-appointment or re-election
t wouldexpiration -e e
who but
ff
i,l
member of the council by
Pointed
term of office, shill be capable of being act
or elected to supply the vacancy occasions by stub.
aspiration.
ouncil.
XV. Council to make regulations as to elections
of 10th, 110, 12th, and 13th members of. c
XVI: Committee of Council to determine ques-
tions at elections.
XVII, If upon the occasion of an election of a
person to supply any
vacancy among the tenth,
ele oath, twelfth and thirteenth members of the
Co. mil, any registered voter be desirous of voting