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year appointed a Governor-General of Bengal with
three Counsellors, placing the President and Councils
of Bombay and Madras under the Bengal Government.
 The Act of 1792 reconstituted the Governments
 of Bombay and Madras under a Governor and
three Counsellors for each Presidency, subordinated
generally to the Government of Bengal. Minor
enactments affecting the Government were passed in
1800 and 1812. The Governor-General of India in
Council was created in 1833 (Statute 3 and 4, William
[V, Cap. 85), and the powers of the Government were
re-stated, the legislature being given a higher status
and being altogether independent of the Supreme
Court. The Governors and Councils of Madras and
Bombay were reconstituted on the same footing as
before, for executive purposes. The Governor-General
 was, in his own person, Governor of the Bengal
Presidency down to this time, and was given power
to nominate a Deputy-Governor ; and provision was
made for forming Agra into a separate Presidency—a
provision never acted upon, as already explained. In
1853 (Statute 16 and 17 Victoria, Cap. 95), in continuing
 the Government of India to the Company, provision
was made for appointing a separate Governor for
Bengal ; and, until such appointment was made, for appointing
 a Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western
Provinces, instead of a Governor and Council.
In the next year, by Statute 17 and 18 Victoria,
Cap. 77, the Governor-General in Council was given
power to assume the immediate government of any part