LAWS. 1825. 6 Geo. 4, c. 85, $ 10. $11. § 12. preme Court of Judicature at Fort William than the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such puisne judge for seven years; nor if he shall have so resided for seven years, shall it be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of one thousand pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such puisne judge for ten years; nor if he shall have so resided for ten years, shall it be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds sterling per annum. Puisne Judges, Madras and Bombay. Limitation of allowance to puisne judges of Madras and Bombay. (5) And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to any one of the puisne judges of either of the said Supreme Courts of Judicature at Madras or Bombay respectively, than the sum of six hundred pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such puisne judge for seven years; nor if he shall have so resided for seven years, shall it be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of eight hundred pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such puisne judge for ten years; nor if he shall have so resided for ten years, shall it be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of one thousand two hundred pounds sterling per annum. Chief Justices must serve five years as such for larger Pension. Chief justice than puisne judge, unless he not to have more has been chief justice for five (6) Provided also, and be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful for his Majesty to direct any larger allowance to be made to any chief justice of any of the said Supreme Courts so resigning, than the amount by this act limited for the allowance to be made to the puisne judges of the court to which such chief justice shall belong, unless he shall have held the office of a chief justice of one of the said Supreme Courts during five years of his residence in India. years. RECORDER. § 13. Limitation of Allowance to Recorder of Prince of Wales' Island. (7) And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to the recorder of the said Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales' Island than the sum of five hundred pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such recorder for seven years; nor if he shall have so resided for seven years, shall it be lawful to direct any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of six hundred and fifty pounds sterling per annum, unless he shall have resided in India as such recorder for ten years; nor nor if he shall have so resided for ten years, shall it be lawful to direct LAWS. any larger allowance to be made to him than the sum of one thousand pounds sterling per annum. Time of Recorder appointed Judge to be reckoned at a certain rate. (8) Provided also, and be it further enacted, that if any person having for any time resided in the East-Indies as recorder of the said Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales' Island, shall have been or shall be appointed to the office of chief justice or puisne judge of either of the said Supreme Courts of Fort William, Madras, or Bombay, the period of residence of such person in the East-Indies as such recorder of the said Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales' Island shall be accounted and taken as and for a residence in India as a puisne judge of such courts respectively, in the proportion of three years' residence as such recorder to two years' residence as such puisne judge; and that if such person shall have resided in the East-Indies partly as such recorder and partly as such chief justice or puisne judge, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in manner herein before-mentioned, to direct such allowance to be made to such person as might lawfully be directed in case such person had resided the whole of such time as such recorder, and had resigned the office of such recorder, although such person may not have resided in India for such length of time as to entitle him, under the provisions herein contained, to the allowance of a chief justice or puisne judge. who have discharged their functions in In BISHOPS AND ARCHDEACONS. His Majesty dia for fifteen years.Vide 6 Geo. 4, as to the bishop. Pensions to bishops and archdeacons after ten years. 1825. 6 Geo. 4, c. 85, $ 14. 1813. 53 Geo. S, c. 155, $ 54. 1823. c. 71, § 3. (10) And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in 4 Geo. 4, manner in the said act mentioned, to grant to any such bishop who shall have exercised in the East-Indies or parts aforesaid for ten years the office of bishop or archdeacon, and to any such archdeacon who shall have exercised in the East-Indies, or parts aforesaid, for ten years, the office of archdeacon, pensions not exceeding 203 such LAWS. such sums respectively as his Majesty by the said act of the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Majesty is empowered to grant to any 1823. 4 Geo. 4, such bishop or archdeacons. c. 71, $ 4. 1825. § 16 Chaplains acting as archdeacons to be enti tled to pension, in a certain proportion.-Further provision (11) Provided also, and be it further enacted, that if any person residing any time in the East-Indies, or parts aforesaid, as one of the chaplains of the said United Company, shall have been or shall be appointed to the office of such archdeacon as aforesaid, and shall have resided in the East-Indies or parts aforesaid as such as to chaplains. archdeacon seven years, the period of residence of such person as chaplain shall be accounted and taken as and for a residence as such archdeacon, in the proportion of three years' residence as such chaplain to two years' residence as such archdeacon: provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend, to prejudice the right of any person being or having been a chaplain of the said United Company, to any benefit he may be entitled to as under or by virtue of any regulation now in force, or hereafter to be made by the said United Company, or their Court of Directors, nor to prejudice or affect the right of the said United Company, or their Court of Directors, to make, repeal, vary, or alter any regulation or regulations respecting the chaplains of the said United Company, or the pay or allowances, pensions or retirements of such chaplains, which the said United Company, or their Court of Directors, may now lawfully make, repeal, vary, or alter. Pension to bishop on resigna tion.-Five years, £750— seven years, £1,000-ten years, £1,500. (12) And whereas under and by virtue of an act made and passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Majesty King George III, and of another act made and passed in the fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, provision is made for granting a pension to the Bishop of Calcutta, under the limitations therein contained, and it is expedient to make further provision in respect thereof; be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in manner in the said act of the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Majesty mentioned, to grant to any such bishop, who shall have exercised within the limits of the charter of the said United Company the office of bishop of Calcutta for five years, a pension not exceeding one-half of the sum which his Majesty, by the said act of the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Majesty, is empowered to grant to any such bishop; and also to grant to any such bishop who shall have exercised within the limits aforesaid the said office of bishop of Calcutta for seven years, a pension not exceeding two-thirds of the sum which his Majesty by the said act of the fifty-third of his late Majesty's reign is empowered to grant to any such bishop. Pensions not to be granted for a less Service than Ten Years, except in cases of illness. (13) Provided also, and be it further enacted, that it Not to be grant. shall ed for a less ser vice than ten years, except in consequence of illness or infirmity. shall not be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs or successors, to direct any such allowance to be made to any such chief justice, puisne judge, recorder, or bishop respectively, who before he shall have held and exercised such office, or some or one of such offices, for the space of ten years in the whole, shall resign his said office for any other cause than in consequence of illness or infirmity, to be proved to the satisfaction of his Majesty, his heirs or successors. Resolutions of the Court of Directors respecting new or increased pensions exceeding £200 per annum, to be laid before two general courts, together with the documents upon which such reso BY-LAW. It is ordained, that every resolution of the Court c. 6, § 19. of Directors for granting a new pension or an increase of pension, exceeding in the whole two hundred pounds per annum, to any one person, shall be laid before and approved by two general courts specially summoned for that purpose, before the same shall be submitted to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, in the form of a report, stating the grounds upon which such grant is recommended; which resolution and report shall be signed by such directors as approve same, and that the documents upon which such resolution may have been formed shall be open to the inspection of the proprietors from the day on which public notice has been given of the proposed grant. lutions may have been formed. the POSTAGE TO AND FROM INDIA. THE revenue arising from POSTAGE on letters first became the subject of parliamentary enactment in 1660, by the 12th Charles II, cap. 85; that act was repealed in 1710 by the 9th Anne, cap. 10, under which one general post-office was to be erected in some convenient place in the city of London, from whence letters were to be despatched with speed and expedition to all parts of Great Britain, Ireland, North America, and the West-Indies. One general post-master was to direct the whole. Carriers, coachmen, and watermen were prohibited carrying letters; and rates were fixed for letters to and from all parts of the Continent; likewise to and from Spain, Portugal, Sicily, the West-Indies, and America. In 1765, by the 5th Geo. III, cap. 25, the masters of all ships and vessels bringing letters were required to deliver them to the post-office before the vessel was admitted to entry. The embezzlement of letters, and taking notes or bills out of them, also robbing the mail, were made felonies. In 1660, the revenue appears to have been about... £21,500 In 1714, 64,000 201,804 281,535 438,000 1,144,900 2,382,535* In |