Bengal Past & Present July—December 1929

The Deputy who always was an Attorney of the Court in order to be supposed qualified to execute the business of the office aware of the immense advantages attached to the situation was of course prudent enough to keep the secret to himself quietly pocketing the whole of the fees. [...] Hickey also gives the following description of the procedure: Upon the first Tuesday in the month of December their Lordships accordingly met at Chamber in the Court House when the Judge whose turn it was to nominate put down three names in writing delivering the same to the clerk of the Crown when that officer immediately carried such written list to the Council House and presented it to the [...] Ozias Humphry was evidently a customer for a copy of the formal announcment of the change of title is preserved in one of the volumes of his correpondence in the Library of the Royal Academy. [...] There was an attorney of that name on the roll of the Supreme Court at the time who was not of course the author of the Memoirs; but the Sheriff was a business man. [...] In (27) In the days of Warren Hastings and even as late as the time of Bishop Heber (1823-25) the Chitpore Nawab " denoted the Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad who staged on the occasion of his visits to Calcutta in the house of Chitpore which was occupied by Mir Jafir when he visited Clive at the end of 1758.