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boards; commissioners of revenue in
the regulation provinces; collectors of
districts in those provinces; deputy or
subordinate collectors where combined
with the office of joint magistrate in
those provinces; assistant collectors ;
salt agents ; controllers of salt chowkies;
commissioners of customs, salt, and
opium ; opium agents.

The act permits other persons to be provisionally
 appointed to these offices where necessary,
subject to the approval of the secretary of state,
and does not apply to the appointments of governors,
 lieutenant-governors, and judges of the high
courts.

All other appointments may be filled up without
 regard to the qualifications, conditions, and
restrictions prescribed by the Act of 1793. In
practice, however, the secretary of state appears to
have prohibited the filling up of the higher appointments
 in non-regulation provinces by uncovenanted
officers without his previous sanction,

The Statutory Civil Service.
The appointment of natives of India to offices
reserved to the civil service has been legalized by
33 Vic, Cap. 3, Section 6; umder this section
natives of India are defined “to include any person
born and domiciled within the dominions of Her