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 December 20 1920

It is in Qed p source iif pride to the Vakil Bar that °'it has upplied the - first I ndiaan member of the Executive Council of the LieutenanGovernor of Bengal the first Indian member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bengal and last but not the least the fist President of the Legislative Council under the new regime. [...] The appointment of committee to consider the increase of the remuneration of Ministers cdlc}dea with the movement which has taken place in the Dominions to increase the emoluments of mbmbers as well as Ministers. [...] During the present year a Canadian Act has been passed to raise the salary of the member of the King's Privy Council holding the recognised position of First Minister to $15 000 per annum that of the other Miniters to $10 000 per annum and that of the Solicitor-General to $7 000. [...] In the course of the debate as reported in the Journal of the Pa'rliam& tits of the Biaptre Sir Robert Borden stated the salaries of Ministers in the other Dominions. [...] Sir Robert Borden expressed the hope that the increases which have now been granted would not need to be disturbed for the next Sfteene or twenty year& A few weeks before Australia had increased the renu neration of the members of the bommo'weaZth Parliament from £600 to £1000 provided that in.respect of Ministers of State President of the Senate Speaker of the House of Represenatives a