The History of British India

The fifth was the Committee of Accounts ; of whose duties the principal were to examine bills of exchange and money certificates ; to compare advices with bills ; to examine the estimates and accounts of cash and stock ; and to superintend the office of the accountant and the office of transfer in which arc effected the transfers of the Company's stock and annuities and in which the foreign [...] The alterations and repairs of the build ings regulations for the attendance of the several officers and clerks the appointment of the inferior servants of the House and the control of the secrtary's accounts for domestic disbursements were included in its province. [...] The persons appointed to fill the judicial offices were the servants of the Company bred to comerce and nursed in its details: while a manuscript hook of instructions comprised the whole of the asistance which the wisdom of the Ring and the Company provided to guide uninstructed men in the administration of justice. [...] Besides the above-mentioned tribunals established by the Company for the administration of the Brtish laws to the British people in India they erected in the capacity of Zemindar of the district around Calcutta the usual Zemindary Courts for the aministration of the Indian laws to the Indian peple. [...] To the disappointment however and grief of the ambassadors the Mandates were not under the seals of the Emperor but only those of the vizir the authority of which the distant VOL.