OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA. 1898. Price, Five Rupees. English Price, Seven Shillings. PREFACE. THE HE second volume of the General Acts (third edition) has been compiled generally on the same lines as the first. The Chronological Tables have, however, been slightly altered, the facts as to the extensions and applications of the Acts, which are set forth in the body of the volume, being omitted. Where an Act has been textually amended, the text has been altered accordingly, as in previous editions of the General Acts. 2. The Acts contained in this and the succeeding volumes are subject to the provisions of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897). 3. With reference to the foot-notes as to the extension or application by notification of Acts, it should be borne in mind that, where an Act has been so extended or applied, it is to be taken as having been extended or applied as textually amended by subsequent legislation (if any) up to the date of the notification. 4. As stated in the preface to the first volume, the Statements of Objects and Reasons, the Reports of the Select Committees and the Debates and Proceedings in Council referred to in the footnotes cannot be referred to judicially.* 5. The marginal notes to sections are those which appeared in the Bills during their passage through Council and into law. Whether such notes are to be taken as parts of the Acts or not is a question which has been raised, but apparently not concluded. (See Hardcastle, Ed. 2, at pp. 216 and 217, and Maxwell, Ed. 2, at p. 52.) See the judgment of the Privy Council in The Administrator General of Bengal v. Prem Lall Mullick, I. L. R. 22 Cal., at pp. 798 and 799; also Norendra Nath Sirkar v. Kamalbasini Dasi, I. L. R. 23 Cal., p. 563, aud Vagliano v. Bank of England (1891), A. C. at p. 145. 6. This volume also has been revised and passed through the Press by Mr. John Morison, Barrister-at-Law, Personal Assistant to the Secretary to the Government of India in this Department. H. W. C. CARNDUFF, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, SIMLA; The 1st September, 1898. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE UNREPEALED GENERAL ACTS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL, 1868-76. **With respect to the entries in the fourth column regarding repeals, it may be noted : (a) Partial repeals covered by later partial repeals are not noted; (b) Where an Act has been locally repealed and afterwards repealed by an Act whose operation is unrestricted, the later repealing Act has alone been noted; (c) Local repeals covered by later local repeals are not noted. (1) Acts which have been wholly repealed, and (2) Acts which apply to the Straits Settlements only, and are therefore not in force within the present limits of British India, are not included in these tables. N. B. For complete Chronological list of all the Acts of the Governor General in Council, whether repealed or unrepealed, see Wigley's Chronological Tables and Index of the Indian Statutes, Vol. I. |