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peace, in order that they may be duly qualified to act under commissions
of the peace; it is hereby enacted, that all persons who are or shall be *
nominated and appointed in any commission of the peace, shall be
capable of acting as justices of the peace in every respect, according to the
tenour of such commission, upon taking and subscribing in any civil or
criminal court of justice within the places in and for which any such com-
mission shall have issued, before the officer presiding in such court, whether
such officer be a justice of the peace or not, the oaths appointed to be
taken by justices of the peace ; and the subscription of such persons to the
said oaths shall be deposited and kept with the records of the courts of
justice in which the said oaths shall have been administered.
II. And it is hereby enacted, that every justice of the peace who, before who may be deemed
the passing of this Act, shall have had administered to him the oaths of quauae7 ^
quaiihcationbyany other justice of the peace, shall be deemed to have
been duly qualified to act as a justice of the peace from the time of taking
such oath, and shall continue so qualified notwithstanding such oath may
not have been taken in a court of justice as required by any previous law,
or by this Act.
A.D. 1841. ACT XVII.
AN ACT yb?' ame/z&hq Me M oc/hrc Me CbzzrA q/'
AW&r DeMvmqy ArMzeAA M Me /Me.vMezzcy q/ Abr^ IW-
/Am A Z?e?qyA; PASSED A/ Me VCqA AAzzoMrAA Me Coyer^of-6re?2cr%/'
q/* AAA M CbzozezY, ozz Me 30M q/Xzq/M^, 1841.
See Act III.
1845.
I. IT is hereby enacted, that it shall be competent to either of the sudder Courts may
Courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut, within the territories authorize register to
subject to the presidency of Fort William in Bengal, by an order under S,3dT^Lcute
the signature of the register of such court, to transfer to such register the Screes and orders,
duty of preparing appealed causes for trial, and of executing the decrees
and orders of the said courts, and to authorize him to issue the necessary
process, and to proceed thereupon agreeably to the rules prescribed by the
general Regulations of Government.
II. And it is hereby enacted, that in proceedings before the said courts Security for costs not
it shall not be necessary to take any security for costs ; and it shall be co^ts ma
competent for the said Courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut frame rules of practice
to frame such rules of practice for the due exercise of the civil and criminal ^ themselves,
jurisdiction vested by the Regulations in those courts, as may from time to
time be found requisite. And such rules, when so framed, shall be sub-
mitted to the Governor-General of India in Council; and after the same
shall have been approved by the said Governor-General of India in
Council, they shall be of the same force as if they were inserted in this
Act.
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ACT XVII.
129
peace, in order that they may be duly qualified to act under commissions
of the peace; it is hereby enacted, that all persons who are or shall be *
nominated and appointed in any commission of the peace, shall be
capable of acting as justices of the peace in every respect, according to the
tenour of such commission, upon taking and subscribing in any civil or
criminal court of justice within the places in and for which any such com-
mission shall have issued, before the officer presiding in such court, whether
such officer be a justice of the peace or not, the oaths appointed to be
taken by justices of the peace ; and the subscription of such persons to the
said oaths shall be deposited and kept with the records of the courts of
justice in which the said oaths shall have been administered.
II. And it is hereby enacted, that every justice of the peace who, before who may be deemed
the passing of this Act, shall have had administered to him the oaths of quauae7 ^
quaiihcationbyany other justice of the peace, shall be deemed to have
been duly qualified to act as a justice of the peace from the time of taking
such oath, and shall continue so qualified notwithstanding such oath may
not have been taken in a court of justice as required by any previous law,
or by this Act.
A.D. 1841. ACT XVII.
AN ACT yb?' ame/z&hq Me M oc/hrc Me CbzzrA q/'
AW&r DeMvmqy ArMzeAA M Me /Me.vMezzcy q/ Abr^ IW-
/Am A Z?e?qyA; PASSED A/ Me VCqA AAzzoMrAA Me Coyer^of-6re?2cr%/'
q/* AAA M CbzozezY, ozz Me 30M q/Xzq/M^, 1841.
See Act III.
1845.
I. IT is hereby enacted, that it shall be competent to either of the sudder Courts may
Courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut, within the territories authorize register to
subject to the presidency of Fort William in Bengal, by an order under S,3dT^Lcute
the signature of the register of such court, to transfer to such register the Screes and orders,
duty of preparing appealed causes for trial, and of executing the decrees
and orders of the said courts, and to authorize him to issue the necessary
process, and to proceed thereupon agreeably to the rules prescribed by the
general Regulations of Government.
II. And it is hereby enacted, that in proceedings before the said courts Security for costs not
it shall not be necessary to take any security for costs ; and it shall be co^ts ma
competent for the said Courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut frame rules of practice
to frame such rules of practice for the due exercise of the civil and criminal ^ themselves,
jurisdiction vested by the Regulations in those courts, as may from time to
time be found requisite. And such rules, when so framed, shall be sub-
mitted to the Governor-General of India in Council; and after the same
shall have been approved by the said Governor-General of India in
Council, they shall be of the same force as if they were inserted in this
Act.
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