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DUTIES AND PROCEDURE OF THE COUNCIL.

XXV. The Council shall, under the direction of
the Secretary of State, and subject to the provisions
of this Act, conduct the business transacted in the
United Kingdom in relation to the government of
India and the correspondence with India in the
public department, but every order or communica-
tion sent to India shall be signed by one of the
principal Secretaries of State ; and save as expressly
provided by this act, every order in the United
Kingdom in relation to the government of India
under this act shall be signed by such Secretary of
State, and all dispatches from governments and
presidencies in India, and other dispatches from
India, which if this act had not bean passed should
have been addressed to the Coutt of Directors or

to their secret committee, shall be addressed to
such Secretary of State.
XXVI. The Secretary of State to divide the
council into committees, and to regulate the
transaction of business.

XXVII. Secretary of State, president.
XXVIII. Meetings of the council shall be con-
vened and held when the Secretary of State shall
from time to time direct ; and upon requisition in
writing by six or more of the members of the
council, one of their secretaries or assistant secre-
taries shall convene a meeting of such council,
giving three days' notice in writing thereof to the
Secretary of State and each member of the council.
XXIX. The questions at any meeting of the
council at which the Secretary of State is not pre-
sent shall be determined by the votes of the majority
of the members present, and in case of an equality
of votes, the Vice-President shall have a second or
casting vote ; but at any meeting of the council at
which the Secretary of State is present, if there be
a difference of opinion on any question, except as
to the validity of elections or returns of members,
or as to such appointments and admissions to
services as by this act are authorised to be made by
the council, the determination of the Secretary of
State shall be final ; and all acts done at any
meeting of the council in the absence of the Secre-
tary of State shall, except as to such elections and
returns, appointments and admissions to service as
aforesaid, require his sanction or approval in
writing ; and in case of difference of opinion On

any question decided at any meeting, the Secreta►y

of State may require that his opinion, and the rea-
sons for the same, be entered in the minutes of the
proceedings, and any member of the council who may
have been present at the meeting may require that
his opinion, and auy reasons for the slme that he
may have stated aa the meeting, ba entered in like
manner.

XXX. The Vice President, and such two other
members of the council as the Secretary of Stare
may from time to time in this behalf appoint, shall
be a secret committee of council for the purposes of
this act ; and any such member so appointed may
at any time be removed by the Secretary of State.
XXXI. Every order or communication proposed
to be sent to India, and every order proposed to be
made in the United Kingdom, in the publicdepai t-
ment by the Secretary of State, shall, unless the
same has been submitted to a meeting of the coun-
cil, be placed in the council-room for the perusal of
all members of the council during seven days 13,-;-
fore the sending or making thereof ; except in the
cases hereinafter provided ; and it shall be lawful
for any member of the council to record in a mi-
nute book, to be kept for that purpose, his opinion
with respect to each such order or communication,
and a copy of every opinion so recorded shall he
sent forthwith to the Secretary of State.
XXXII. Secretary of State acting against the
opinions of the majority to record his reasocs.

XXXIII. Provid_d, that where it appears to
the Secretary of State that the despatch of any
order or communication, or the making of ally
order in the public department is urgently re-
quired, notice thereof shall be given to every mem-
ber of the council ; but the communication may Le
sent or order given notwithstanding the same may
not have been submitted to a, meatier, of the coun-
cil or deposited for seven days as aforesaid, the
urgent reasons for sending or making the same
being recorded by the Secretary of State.
XXXIV. Orders now sent through secret com-
mittee to be communicated to the secret committee
of council.

XXXII'. Secret despatches from India only, to
be communicated to the secret committee.

APPOINTIIE.NTS AND PATRONAGE.

XXXVI. The appointments of Governor Gene-
ral of India, fourth ordinary member of the council
of the Governor General of India, and governors of
presidencies in India, now made by the Court of
Directors with the .approbation of her Majesty,
and the appointments of advocate general for the
several presidencies now made with the approbation
of the commissioners for the affairs of India, shall
be male by her Majesty by warrant under her
Royal sign manual ; the appointments of the ordi-
nary members of the Council of the Governor
General of India, except the fourth ordinary mem-
ber, and the appointments of lieu'eaant governors
of provinces or territories, shall be made by the
Governor General ef India, subject to the appro-
bation of her Majesty ; and the appointments of
the members of council of the several. presidencies
shall be made by the governors of such respectivo
presidencies, subject to the like approbation ; and
all such appointments shall be sutject to the quali-
fications now by law affecting such offices respec-
tively.
XXXVII. Appointments now made in India to
be continued to be made there.

XXXVIII. All powers of appointing cadets,
military and naval, and all other powers of appoin-
ing and admitting to service not herein otherwise
expre,sly provided for, which would or might have
been exercised by the Court of Directors of the
said company if this act had not been passed, shall
be vested in her Majesty : provided that names of
such persons as may from time to time be recom-
mended by the council, under r:solutions made at
their meetings, for appointments or admissions to
services shall be submitted to her Majesty by the
Secretary of State ; provided also, that appoint-
ments of persons becoming entitled thereto as men-
tioned in sec. 41 of the said act of the 16th and 17th
years of her Majesty may be made by any committee
of the council as the Secretary of State shall direct.
XXXIX. All powers of making regulations in
relation to the appointments and admissions to ser-
vice and other matters connected therewith, and of
altering or revoking such regulations, which if this
act had not been passed might have been exercised
by the court of directors or commiss'oners for the
affairs of India, may be exercised at meetings of the
council, subject to the approbation of her Majesty,
and all regulations in force at the time of the com-
mencement of this act in relation to the matters
aforesaid shall remain in force, subject nevertheless
to alteration or revocation by the council as afore-
said.

XL. Removal of officers by her MAjegty.:

XLI. Real and personal property of the corn
pany to vest in her Majesty for the purposes of the
government of India.
XLII. Powers of sale and purchase, and con-
tracting.
XLIII. Divilend of the company, and existing
and future debts and liabilities and expenses,
charged on the revenues of India.
Clauses XLIV. to LII. provide for the transfer
of revenues, cash account at the Bank, &c.
LIII. Audit of accounts in England.
LIV. Accounts to be annually laid before Parlia-
ment.

LV. Commis3ioners ta proceed to India to inquire
into the finances and accounts. -
LVI. Indian military anit naval forces to remain
under existing conditions and service.
LVII. New provisions may be made for persons
hereafter entering her Majesty's Indian forces.
LVIII. Servants of the company to be deemed
servant.A of her Majesty.
, Board of Control to rem
LIX. All 6 rders of the Court of Directors
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COMMENCEMENT OF THE ACT.
LXX. This act shall commence and take effect
on the day next after the passing thereof.
LXXI. This act shall bo proclaimed in the