The Calcutta Weekly Notes March 25 1946

Asked if the Mission was going to India " to transfer power or to negotiate transfer of power " he is reported to have said that " the proposal to transfer power had aready been made "—whatever that might mean in terns of practice—and that " in order to achieve that transfer a Constitution must be created and the object of the Mission was to find the most suitable body of Indians in order to [...] It is to be decided by the Judge for the admissbility of the confession and the jury also may consider it in determining the weight to be attached to it. [...] The jury has not to consider only the volitional character of the confession as detached from its credibility as the Judge has to do but it has primarily to determine its truth and as a part of it to consider whether it was voluntary. [...] To decide whether a proposed amendment is in order or not the general rule is that first the amendment must be germane to the subjecmatter of the proposition and secondly it must not be in substance a direct negative of it. [...] be received but not adopted and that a committee be appointed to enquire and report but the chairman ruled the amendment out of order : Held (BLAGDEN J.)—That the amendment was in order—it was germane to the subjecmatter and also not a direct negative of the main proposition.