The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday July 16 1923

For more than 20 years he served as a commissioner of the Calcutta Corporation where he earned the esteem of his colleagues and of the public by his tact and independence and keen concern for the welfare of the city. [...] In the 'next place even assenting that the groyernor-General in Council who are a much more bureaucratic body by tradition than the Governor-Genrad himself are at' all disposed to receive with favour the recommendation of the Assembly it is not within their competence to modify the provisions of the Government of India Act in any way. [...] It is therefore generally believed that the certification was.resorted to more for the purpose of a reassertion of the autocratic poser of the Government of India than for balancing the budget. [...] and the Courts of Generill and Quarter Sessions for offences in Asia Africa America and beyond the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Magellan within the tradinllimits of the E. Co. [...] by Act II of 1869) appointed the Governors and Councils of Madras and Bombay justices of the peace for the said towns and for the settlements and factories subordinate thereto and empowered them to appoint justices of the peace for the same Jarifdietion of the Cou^ts in India p to 1813.