Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

ACT IX.

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A.D. 1850.]
Madras, and Bombay, for the recovery of small debts, it is enacted as
follows:
1. The several courts of commissioners and of requests, for the recovery Courts of Requests
of small debts, now holden in the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bom- ^is Acf^ ^
bay, under the authority of the charter of justice of King George the
Second, and of two Acts of Parliament, severally passed in the thirty-
seventh year and fortieth year of the reign of King George the Third,
and of the Regulations and proclamations made, from time to time, for
constituting and for new-modelling, altering, and reforming, the constitu-
tion and practice of the said courts respectively, and of Act XII. 1848,*
shall be holden according to the provisions of this Act, from and after such
several days as shall be declared within the said towns by proclamation
to be made and published in due form of law in each of the said towns by
the Governor in Council.

II. Where in this Act the words " Governor in Council," or " Supreme
Court," are used, they shall be taken to apply severally to the person or
persons administering the executive Government, and to the Supreme
Court established under royal charter of each of the presidencies of Fort
William in Bengal, Fort St. George, and Bombay, with reference only to
the court holden under this Act in the same presidency.

Interpretation of the
words " Governor in
Council" and " Su-
preme Court."

III. From and after the day declared in any such proclamation, all Rescissions of pre-
provisions of the said charter of justice, and Acts of Parliament, and of vious provisions,
any Regulation, Act, or proclamation, heretofore made concerning the
constitution or practice of the court referred to in such proclamation, shall
be rescinded and repealed.
IV. The style of the several courts holden under this Act shall be Title of the courts,
the ( ) Court of Small Causes, inserting in blank space Calcutta,
Madras, or Bombay, as the case requires.
V. The jurisdiction of the several courts holden under this Act shall jurisdiction,
extend over the whole district now within the jurisdiction thereof respec-
tively, and over such further district as may from time to time be declared
by proclamation of the Governor in Council: provided that no proclama-
tion for extending the district of any of the said courts be made without
the previous sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council.
VI. Every court holden under this Act shall be a Court of Record, and To be a Court of
shall be deemed a Court of Requests, within the meaning of Act VII. 1841, Req^t^ti^n "the
Section VI. meaning of Act VII.
1841.
VII. All proceedings commenced in any of the said courts before the Continuation and
time when the constitution and practice of such court shall be altered ceed^r^commenced
under this Act, may be continued, executed, and enforced against all per- before this Act.
sons liable thereunto, in the same manner as if they had been commenced
according to this Act; and each of the said courts shall be empowered, in
* This Act is not printed in its place, as it contains no rule ahecting the Company's
Courts.