The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday April 28 1919

the policy of the Government of India since some time past has been to make executive acts affecting the liberty of the subject increasingly independent of the rule of law " which has come to be appreciated by the people of this country no less than by the British citizens in any other part of the Empire. [...] The Regulation iself also embodies in it such limitations irr so far as it says "during the existence of open rebellion against the authority of the Government." The power of suspension of jurisdiction of criminal courts under the Regulation " for any period of time " must also be read subject to the limitation of " the existence of open rbellion." The power of framing ordinance by the Gov [...] On the 12th September 1918 and after the trial and conviction and the appeal of the Pettioner there was passed Act XV of 1918 which provided that all Rules passed under the Enemy Trading Ordinance 1916 should be deemed to have continued vn force notwithstanding the repeal of the said Ordinance and to have been made or issued under the Enemy Trading Act 1916. [...] 72 of the Goverment of India Act 1915 which is the authority for the Ordinance says the Governor-General may in cases of emergency make Ordinances and any Ordinance so made shall for the space of not more than six months have the like force of law as an Act passed by the Governor-General in 1 egislative Council. [...] That this was plainly the view of the tiegislature of India was shown by the passing of Act of 191.4 which amended the General Clauses Act and added to the section in question Ordnances made under sec.