T7097

The powers of the Governor-General in India
have been put on a satisfactory basis with regard
to the adjustment of territories by Section 46 of
the Indian Councils Act, 1861, Statute 24 and 25
Vic., Cap. 67, which empowers him to create provinces
 and Lieutenant-Governorships, and to fix the
limits of presidencies, provinces, and territories in
India, and to alter those limits; an Act of 1865, 28
Vic., Cap. 17, provides for the apportioning or reapportioning
 existing territories among the existing
 Lieutenant-Governorships or Governorships.
Acts XXI of 1836 and VI of 1867, passed by
the Indian legislature, contain provisions regarding
 minor divisions of territories, such as creating
new districts or altering the boundaries of existing
districts.
The present Constitution of Provinces.
The existing division of Indian territories not
forming part of the older presidencies, is due to
the Acts of 1853, 1854, and 1861.*
The Punjab, which had before been a Chief Commissionership,
 was created into a province under a Lieutenant-Governor
mn 1859.

Oudh was annexed in 1856 and taken under direct management
 as a Chief Commissionership. In 1877 the then Chief
Commissioner was appointed to be Lieutenant-Governor of the
North-West Provinces, and this practically, to some extent,
amalgamated the two provinces, without, however, destroying
any special administrative features of either.

Powell's Revenue Manual, Cap. L