Papers regarding Act XVIII of 1843, An Act for the better custody of persons convicted of Thuggee [Thagi] and Dacoity
Scope & Content:
The papers include correspondence on the subject of the imprisonment in British jails of prisoners convicted in foreign States; and on Thag and Dacoit prisoners in Oudh, including a report by Lieutenant Colonel Low, Resident at Lucknow, on the trial of Dacoits in confinement in the Lucknow jails...
Transfer of the Suttaees Hazaree Mehal to the Rajah of Khoorda [Khurda] as Superintendent of the Jaggernath [Jagannath] Temple. Extension of the provisions of Act IV of 1840 to the Madras Presidency with certain modifications in lieu of a part of Regulation 5 of 1822 of the Madras Code. Disposal ...
Projects of laws superseded: papers regarding the management of the House of Correction at Calcutta and the employment of Crown prisoners in breaking stones
Proposed law to empower Collectors to execute civil processes concerning land. Draft of an Act for enforcing the performance of Police duties by British subjects being zemindars or farmers.
Republication in the official Gazette at Calcutta of Statute 5 & 6 Vict: Cap: 101, extending to the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the powers for the more effectual suppression of the importation of slaves into India by sea. Clerical error in Act VI of 1843 corrected. Courts...
Act XXII of 1843, An Act for amending the Law relating to the Jurisdiction of the Dewanny Adawlut of the Zillah of the Twenty-four Pergunnahs [24 Parganas]. Act XXIII of 1843, An Act for amending the Law relating to the Jurisdiction of the Zillah Courts in the Provinces ceded by the Nawab Vizi...
Papers regarding Act XXIV of 1843, An Act for the better prevention of the Crime of Dacoity
Scope & Content:
A printed copy of the Act is included within the papers. The papers also include printed copies of statements by three Kechuck Jemadars named Fuqeera, Nahandeea and Behadoor, made before Captain Marsh, Assistant to the Superintendent in the Thuggee [Thagi] Department; and a printed copy of the...
Papers regarding Act XXV of 1843, An Act for making the Provisions of 5 and 6 Vic. C. 47, Sec. XI. applicable to India, for the prevention of the importation into its Ports of foreign articles bearing English marks, stamps, labels, etc, and sold as genuine to the prejudice of British manufacturers and of the Government Revenue
Scope & Content:
A printed copy of the Act is included within the papers
Case of Thomas Clark vs Mr Mascarenhas and others. Construction of Act X of 1836. Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta asks for a law to protect advances made for the cultivation of indigo. Distribution of the Law Commissioner's report on the Judicial Establishments of the Presidencies of Bengal, Madr...