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officers exclusively the primary cognizance of all
cases of ejectment, cancelment of leases for arrears ot
rent, enhancement of rent, and right of demanding
patias and habuliats.

It was passed in 1859. -Ten years later, in lower
Bengal only, the jurisdiction to hear and determine
cases of this nature was re-transferred to the civil
courts.
Madras and Bombay.
The Mayors’ Courts in Madras and Bombay
existed till the year 1797, when they were replaced,
not by Supreme Courts, but by Recorders’ Courts
(Statute 37, George III, Cap. 142).
These consisted of the Mayor, three Aldermen,
and a Recorder, being, in fact, the old Mayors’ Courts,
with the addition of a Recorder to each Court, who
was to be appointed by the Crown. They had full Civil,
Criminal. Ecclesiastical and Admiralty jurisdiction.
They were empowered to establish rules of
practice and process, and they were to be Courts of
Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for Fort St.
George and Bombay. They had power to try all suits
which by authority of Parliament could be tried in
the Mayors’ Courts. Theif jurisdiction extended over
British subjects resident within the British territories,
then or thereafter to be rendered subject to the
Governments of Madras and Bombay, respectively,
or within the territories of Native Princes in alliance
with those Governments.