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Exchequer or other Judges, being members of thé
Council, were placed upon the Committee. All appeals,
or applications in prize suits, admiralty, and other
Courts beyond the United Kingdom, were referred to
this Committee. This judicial committee proceeded
to judgment in the form of reports or recommendations
 to the Crown; a majority of the members
present gave the decision ; evidence could be taken
orally, or by written depositions ; a Registrar and
officers were appointed and procedure prescribed.
Power was given to the Committee to refer issues for
trial to other Courts ; and the powers exercised over
India by the courts of law at Westminster, under
previous acts, in regard to the taking of evidence in
India, were conferred upon it. It was further provided
 that two persons who had held office as judges in
India or the colonies, might be made privy councillors
and empowered to sit on the judicial committee as
paid members. Four members formed a quorum. In
1838, an order was made in Council limiting appeals
from the Supreme Courts in India, in point of time,
to six months from the date of the judgment, and in
point of value, to Rs. 10.000.

Statute 6 and 7 Vic, Cap. 38, passed in 1843,
made some further provisions in regard to appeals
preferred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council. It laid down that appeals might, by a
special order of the Crown, be heard by not less than
three members of the Committee ; the power to make