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The Journal of the Bihar Research Society

1944

By a Charter of 1683 (one of the four Charters granted to the Company in that year) dated 9th August the Company was allowed to seize all unlicensed ships and goods one-half of all the forfeitures on which was to go to the Crown and the other to the Company. [...] John was a protege of Lord Rochester a brotherin-law of the Duke of York and had been recomended for the post by the Secretary of State Sir Leoline Jenkins whereas Biggs was personally known to Sir Josiah Child the masteful Governor of the Company and had gained his confidence; and Child was then the most influential personality in the activities of the Company. [...] The Municipality and the Mayor's Court were created by the Company's Charter because as the Governor of the Court of Directors observed the wind of the extraordinary honour in their heads. [...] On two occasions the Governor had to release native debtors from prison to which they had been committed whereupon the Mayor and the Alderman sent a"320 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MADRAS JUDICIARY remonstrance to him saying that the Governor was resolved to set the military in opposition to the mil and also threatened him with the consequence of forcing men from the hands of justice and of thretening [...] The Freemen of the Corporation should enjoy the free exercise of the respective religions within the precincts of the Corporation and the same privileges of trade which natural-born Englishmen may lawfully claim.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
64
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Saiyid Fazl, A. Banerji-Sastri, K.K. Datta view
Early Stages in the Development of the Madras Judiciary
211-228 C. S. Srinivasachari view
An Aspect of Guru Teg Bahadur’s Career
229-236 Anil Banerjee view
Currency and Coinage in Bihar under the Hon’ble Company
237-243 K.K. Basu view
Has the Tarikh-I-Muzaffar Shahi reached us ?
244-247 C. H. Shaikh view
Mir Jumla’s Diplomatic relations with Sri Ranga Rayal and Shahuji Bhonsla
248-254 Jagadish Sarkar view
The Court of Directors’ Instructions to the Council in Calcutta in view of the Strained Anglo-French relations in 1755-56
255-260 Kalikinkar Datta view
Nama-Rupa and Dharma-Rupa by Maryla Falk D. Litt
261-262 Dhirendra Datta view
“Narayanrao Peshwa—Yincha Khoon Ki Atmahatya” by P.G.Ranade
263-263 S. V. Sohoni view
Notes of the Quarters
264-267 S. Bahadur view

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