Further Papers respecting the East India Company's Charter - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ... to be Commissioners for the Affairs of India, in conjunction with the persons to be nominated in any such Commission as aforesaid, and they shall have the same powers respectively as if they had been expressly nominated in such Commission, in the order in which they are herein mentioned next after the Commissioner first named therein. And be it Enacted, That any Two or more of the said Commissioners shall and may form a Board for executing the several powers which by this Act, or by any other Act or Acts, are or shall be given to or vested in the Commissioners for the Affairs of India; and that the Commissioner first named in any such Letters Patent or Commission, for the time being, shall be the President of the said Board; and that when any Board shall be formed in the absence of the President, the Commissioner next in order of nomination in this Act, or in the said Commission, of those who shall be present, shall for that turn preside at the said Board. And be it Enacted, That if the Commissioners present at any Board shall be equally divided in opinion with respect to any matter by them discussed, then and on every such occasion, the President, or in his absence the Commissioner acting as such, shall have Two voices or the casting vote. And be it Enacted, That the said Board shall and may nominate and appoint Two Secretaries, and such other Officers as shall be necessary to attend upon the said Board, who shall be subject to dismission at the pleasure of the said Board; and each of the said Secretaries shall have the same powers, rights and privileges, as by any Act or Acts now in force are vested in the Chief Secretary of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India; and that the President of the said Board, but no other Commissioner as such, and the sa...