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interlocutory orders and decrees ; to administer oaths
and affirmations ; and to exercise generally any or
all the powers of the courts appealed from. Several
other alterations were made, the principal being that
which empowered the Committee to make rules,
orders, and regulations respecting the practice and
mode of proceeding on appeals. An Act of 1844 (7
and 8 Vic, Cap.69) empowered the Judicial Committee
to call for the judges’ notes of evidence, grounds of
decision, and the like, in appeals before them, and to
make general rules or regulations in this behalf.
Statute 8 and 9 Vic, Cap. 30, passed in 1845, provided
that all appeals to the Privy Council, admitted by
the Sudder Courts, should be taken to be abandoned
and withdrawn, unless the parties took proceedings in
England within two years after the arrival of the
papers in England.

In 1871 further provision was made for the des-~
patch of business by the Judicial Committee, by empowering
 the Crown to appoint four persons who had
held office as judges of the superior Courts at Westminster
 or as Chief Justice of the High Courts of
Bengal, Madras or Bombay, or of the late Supreme
Court of Bengal. These appointments could only
be made, and vacancies filled, within the two years
next succeeding, it being then in contemplation to
pass the Judicature Acts, which in 1875 took away
the jurisdiction of the Committee over all English
Courts. from which, at that time, it received appeals.