‘File 16/3 Miscellaneous. Memorials and messages submitted to the Government of India and his Majesty’ [‎15v] (30/110)

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(3) When the order appealed against is a mere refusal to interfere in a matter of
purely internal policy with the action or orders of the liuier of an Indian State,
of which the memorialist is a subject: provided that the State is one in which
it is not customary for the British Government to intervene in matters cf
internal policy, and that the matter complained of does not disclose a state
of misrule so gross that the. Paramount Power would be called upon to inter-
lere.
^ T - f>--—This rule applies to a temporary administration established in an Indian
State by the Governor-General in Council when the temporary administration
is appointed to exercise the same powers and occupy the same position as the
State Administration which it supersedes.
Note .—Memorials which are analogous to applications under Chapter XXIX of the
Criminal Irocedure Code and appeals for the exercise of the prerogative of pardon must
be transmitted. But this provision will not affect the procedure in regard to memorials
from persons under a capital sentence, prescribed in the Foreign and Political Department
circular letter No. 45-G., dated the 12th January 1917.
8. Memorials from persons* in such territories which are not covered by these rules
* petitions from Government ser- m'ay be treated under the memorial rules of the
vants about dismissal, pensions, etc. Home Department when they are applicable.
9. Memorialists who desire to appeal against the orders of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
in political cases shall have the option of addressing such appeals either to the Governor-
General i.i Council or to the Secretary of State for India in Council, and such appeals
shall be forwarded subject to the provisions of rules 6 and 7. This rule shall not apply to—
(a) Giras cases. In these cases the decision of the local Government shall ordinarily
be considered as final, and no appeal shall lie to the Governor General in
Council, an appeal to the Secretary of State for India in Council only being
admissible with the permission of the local Government which should be
previously obtained;
(b) Memorials of the class specially reserved in rule III of the rules published vith
the Home Department Notification No. F.-472-I1-I-23, dated the 21st June
1924;
(c) Memorials which involve questions affecting the status, dignity or powers of a
lulling Chief or his relations with the Paramount Power (including questions
of succession or adoption) and with other Chiefs.
In the case of (b) and (c), memorials must be addressed to the Governor General in
Ccunci?.
10. The Agent to the Governor General, Western India States, is vested with dis
cretionary power to withhold memorials addressed to the Governor General in Council in
the following cases: —
(a) When the memorial is an appeal against an order passed by himself under rule
18 of the Giras Court Pules published in Western India States Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Noti
fication No. 21, dated the 17th April 1926.
(b) When the memorial is an appeal against an order passed by him'self under rule
6 (a) of the Political Courts Pules published in the Western India States
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Not ification No 30, date I the 26th April 1926, and the case is not one
which should, in his opinion, be certified as fit for a further appeal.
II. —Memorials, etc., addressed to His Majesty tue King-Emperor of India, or to the
Secretary of State for India in Council.
1 Every memorial must be submitted to the Political Oflicer of the State within whose
jurisdiction the subject-matter has arisen, accompanied by a copy of the order appealed
against and by a letter requesting its transmission to the authority to which it is addressed.
2. Memorials may be transmitted either in manuscript or in print, but must, with all
accompanying documents, be properly authenticated by the signature of the memorialist on
each sheet.
3. Subject to the exceptions hereinafter contained, every memorial received which con
forms to the above rules should*be forwarded by the Political Officer through the usual official
channel with a concise statement of material facts, and, unless there be special reasons to
the contrary, an expression of opinion.
4. Memorials, together with their accompanying documents, should be in English. Tf
the accompanying documents must necessarily be forwarded in the vernacular, an English
translation should be appended, which should be attested by the signature of the memorialist
on each sheet.
N. B .—The transmitting officer should examine such translations, and if they are found
to be incorrect or faulty, notice the fact in sending on the memorial.
5. Every memorial should be accompanied by copies of all the orders passed in the
case by the authorities who have dealt with it in India.