Full text : The constitution and powers of the Government of India

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They were also in future excluded from the jurisdiction
 of the Supreme Court in regard to their
official acts, it being directed that should any complaint
 be lodged against the government, the
Supreme Court should, after causing the production
 of the necessary papers and evidence, transmit
 the proceedings to the proper Court in England.
 Further, the order of the Governor-General
in Council was constituted a bar to further proceedings
 for any acts done thereunder ; this provision
 operated in regard to all orders not affecting
British subjects, over whom the Supreme Court retained
 its jurisdiction. It was expressly declared
by the act that the Supreme Court should have no
jurisdiction whatever in matters concerning the
revenue, or concerning any acts ordered or done in
the collection thereof, according to the practice of
the country, or the regulations of the government.
[t was further declared that no person should be
subject to its jurisdiction by virtue of possessing
land or any interest therein in the provinces of
Bengal, Behar, and Orissa ; nor did the employment
of any person by the Company, or by a European,
bring such person generally within such jurisdiclion.
 Further, no action for wrong or injury should
lie in the Supreme Court against any person exercising
 a judicial office in the country courts for any
order, judgment or decree of the said court; nor
against any person for any act done by or in virtue
of the order of such court,
            
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