The Gazette of India. March 17 1917 (Part VI)

continue to take action in the Province under Bengal Regulation III of 1818 ? (b) Is it a fact that in Bombay and Madras respectively the corresponing Regulation is administeredby the Local Government ? (c) If the answer to (b) is in the affirmative will the Government be pleased to consider the desirability of assimilating the practice in Bengal to that of Bombay and Madras and to state the [...] On the report of a Commission appointed in that country to investigate the question in the year 1908 the States General rejected the proposal that the railways owned by the State should be operated by the State and decided that the State-owned railways should continue under company management. [...] The Hon'ble Sir William Meyer :—" My Lord I beg to present the Report of the Select Committee on the Bill further to amend the Indian Income-tax Act 1886 and also to move Your _Excellency to suspend the Rules of Business to admit of the Report of the Select Committee being taken into consideration." His Excellency the President :—" I suspend the Rules of Business.""PART VI] THE GAZETTE OE INDI [...] I take it My Lord that the legislation since 1858 has been enacted on the footing that India is a dependant country that the Government of India are only the mouthpiece of the Secretary of State that the Secretary of State is responsible to the Cabinet and to Parliament and that consequently in vital matters the Government of India has virtually no discretion to act independently. [...] That is the reason why I ask the Council to confine the operation of this Bill to the period of the war and six months thereafter I do not want it to be said that we Indians grudge showing to the best of our ability our active co-operation in the cause of the war and therefore I should.