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and Letters Patent of the Crown ; Regulations of
the Governments, some made declaredly under
Acts of Parliament, particularly authorizing them,
and others which are founded, as some say, on the
general power of Government entrusted to the
Company by Parliament, and as others assert,
on their rights as successors of the old Native
Government ; some Regulations require registry
in the Supreme Court ; others do not ; some have
effect generally throughout India; others are
peculiar to one presidency or one town. There
are commissions of the Governments, and Circular
Orders fromthe Nizamut Adawlut and from the
Dewanny Adawlut ; treaties of the Crown ; treaties
of the Indian Government ; besides inferences drawn
at pleasure from general principles or the law of
other nations.
System of 1834.
In this state of things an Act was passed in
1834, giving the widest powers of repeal and legislation
 to the Supreme Council of the Governor-General,
 over all persons and Courts of Justice and
things, and for all servants of the Government ; and
only excepting that Act itself, the British Army
and Navy Acts, and subsequent statutes. These
powers were of course subject to the control of the
Court of Directors; and did not extend to the
making of any law or regulation authorizing any
Court of Justice, other than a Charter Court, to
sentence European British subjects to death.