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time placed under still greater control. Persons
proceeding to India at once became subject to the
laws and regulations of the Indian Government.
Moreover, powers of taxation were vested in the
several legislatures subject to the sanction of the
Directors ; all regulations were now required to be
laid before Parliament ; the sovereignty of the
Crown was asserted; and powers were conferred
to make articles of war for native troops.

Fave bodies of Statute Law 132 1814.

Down to the year 1834 there were five different
bodies of Statute Law in force in the Empire :—
First, there was the whole body of English
Statute Law existing in 1726, so far as it was applicable,
 and which applied to the presidency towns.
Secondly, all English Acts extended to India after
that date. Z%:7dly, the regulations from 1793 (including
 the Revised Code) down to 1834, in force
in Bengal. Fourthly, the Regulations of the
Madras Council, which spread over the period of
thirty-two years, 22z., from 1802 to 1834, and were
in force in the Presidency of Fort St, George.
Fifthly, the Regulations of the Bombay Code,
which began with the Revised Code of 1827, comprising
 the results of twenty-eight years’ previous
legislation, and were also continued till 1834, hav.
ing force and validity in the Presidency of Fort
Qt. David.