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 May 14 1923

ments for the restoration of the salt clause but also that the other provisions of the Finance Bill be passed by the Council of State as passed by the Assembly. We reproduce the portion of the recommendation which has no bearing on the salt duty. [...] It should be mentioned here that on the 23rd of March the GovernoGeneral placed the identical Bill which he had recommended to the Council of State and was so passed by the Council on the table of the Assembly as a Bill recommended by him to the Assembly.* We are unable to find from the terms of sec. [...] the GovernoGeneral any Bill the Governor-General may certify " the omission of the Finance Member to move that the Bill as recommended by the Governor-General to the Assembly be taken into consideration has'the effect tthdt there was no recommended Bill for the considertion of the Assembly and the necessary prelminary having been omitted the certification on the above ground is also b [...] The procedure ho adopted in recommending not only the salt clause whieh was rejected by the Assembly but algb other clauses of the Finance Bill passed by the Assembly was further open to the sgrious objection 'that such a course was liable to influence the opinion of the members of the Council of State and fetter a free discussion of the Bill in that Chabber. [...] Of course the value of the holding in the liand.of the last in the chain will suffer in price according as his rent increases with the intervention of the middle men.