'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [‎58v] (112/266)

APPENDIX TO JUDICIAL REPORT.
7th. (C In the allowance and disallowance of this right, Judg'es can only act
now by analogy, which is unsatisfactory, and must almost necessarily lead to a
difference of practice in each Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. Court.”
8th “ It is most desirable that so important a right of the subject should be
uniformly administered.”
To carry out as far as possible the recommendation of the Honorable Judges
contained in paragraph 3 of their reply, a rlbtification was published in the Bombay
Government Gazette of the 3rd July 1862, declaring that in accordance with the provi
sions of Section LV. of Act XVIII. of 1862, the said Act was to take effect in Her
Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature in Bombay on and after the 3rd day of July 1862.
This Bill provides for carrying out the other recommendations made by the Judges
of Her Majesty’s Supreme Court.
It was passed by the Bombay Council, but was rejected by the Viceroy. It was,
however, passed by the Council of the Governor General with few verbal alterations.
(16) A Bill for bringing under the Regidations and Acts of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay
the Province of Sattara, certain Villages and lapsed States in the Collectorate of
Sholapore and in the Southern Maratha Country, pertain lands ceded to the Govern
ment of Bombay for Railway purposes, and the District of North Canara, with the
exception of the Talooka of Cundapoor ; and for excluding the Village of Moochundee,
Purgunna Jutt, from the operation of the Regulations and Acts of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
of Bombay.
The object of this Bill was to provide for the better administration of justice in the
Province of Sattara and certain Villages in the Sholapore Collectorate and the Southern
Maratha Country, which had not up to that time been made subject to the operation of
the General Regulations and Acts affecting the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. ; certain villages
and lands had also been ceded by his Highness the Guicowar and the Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Sucheen
to 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. for Railway purposes, and it was desirable that such
villages and lands should be made subject to the Regulations and Acts; the District of
of North Canara also, which formed a part of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Fort St. George, had
(with the exception ol the Talooka of Cundapoor) been recently transferred from the
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay. It was necessary therefore to bring it under the Laws of the
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay. Also the village of Moochundee, Purgunna Jutt, in the Sattara
Territory, had been inadvertently included in Act VI. of 1842, by which certain villages
in the Southern Maratha Country were brought under the operation of the Regulations
and Acts of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay. It was necessary to correct this error.
boi this and for the other purposes already mentioned, the above Bill was intro-®
duced, and was finally passed as Act No. III. of 1863.
(17) A Bill for the nummary Settlement of Claims to Exemption from the Payment of
Government Land Revenue, and for Regulating the terms upon which such Exemption
shall be recognised in futuie in those parts of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. which are not
subject to the operation of Act XL of 1852 of the Council af India,
A Draft Enactment has been some time before the public, whereby it was proposed
to effect a summary settlement of the tenures of alienated lands and’a compromise of