The Journal of the Bihar Research Society December 1945

The i\layer's Court and the Court of Requests were made subject to control on the part of the Court of Directors who were authorised by the Letters Patent to make 'bye-laws rules and ordinances for the good ;government and regulation of the several Court of Judicature established in India. [...] Popham renewed the plan in the time of Governor Sir Archibald Campbell (1786.1790); and consequently the Governor constituted a Committee of Police for the regulation of wages and prices of provisions in the markets and for the preservation of cleanliness in203 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MADRAS lUDICIAR the town as well as for the regulation of the ‘vaLtes of ervants Popham himself was appointed Secretar [...] Ile c(rs:dt red that the Charter of George II was responsible for the existirg and that the exclusion of the natives front the *Tisane:bra of the Mayor's Court was caused by a petition I tom the native inhabitants to the Directors made at the instance of the then Goyernor's: ubash l It was an avowed objeet of the Charter of 1753 to ornety of practice in the courts of the three Presich nrtir.. [...] The Grand Jury frequently indulged in making presentations of matters on which they wanted amendment the eondition of the town gaol where imprisoned debtors and criminals were iningicd ity_iiscrtmnately the condition of the water-sapply the high price of provisions the need for fixing prices and wages and the neglect of the proper scavenging of the town. [...] The portion containing the account of the Guptas in the Puranas is lost and the gap is covered by mere names of the dynasties the identity of which was not even known to the sponsors of the Puranas.