The Rules and Orders of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal (Original Side)

The Governor and the 5 Senior of the Council were appointed Justices of the Peace with the same or the like powers as Justices of the Peace constituted by any Comission or Letters Patent in England; with power to hold Quarter Sessions of the Peace; and they were constituted a Court of Record in the nature of a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for the trial of all offences (high tre [...] That report detailed the state of the country judicatures throughout the province of Bengal as they subsisted under the ancient constitution of the country or as they had seen affected or altered by the Company; and the state of judicature existing in the settlement of Calcutta and in the factories and districts depending upon it partly derived from the constitution of the country and partly 'e [...] 11 & 12.) " But perhaps the most important part of the Act and the one which most completely reversed the policy and intention of the Act of 1773 was the recognition by Parliment of the Civil and Provincial Courts existing indepenently of the Supreme Courts; and of the Governor General and Council or some Committee thereof as the Chief Appellate Court of the country and the vesting the Coun [...] George and the town of Madras and the limits thereof and the Factories subordinate thereto and the territories subject to or dependent upon the Goverment of Madras; and for the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay within the town and island of Bombay and the limits thereof and the Factories subordinate thereto and the territories subject to or dependent upon the Government of Bombay an [...] The abolition of the.Cast India Company (') the assumption of direct responsibility of Government by the English Crown and the consolidation of the Indian Empire under the Queen which occurred in 1858 favoured the work of amalgamation which the ifluences of a century had impeded and prevented.