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of the Company's territories, if necessary ; and to declare
 and limit the extent of the authority of the
Governor of Bengal, or of Agra, or of the North-Western
 Provinces. All powers at any time vested
in the Governor in Council, or Governor of the Presi.
dency of Bengal, or in or by the Governor-General
of India in Council, were vested in the latter. The
position of the Governor-General as Governor of
Bengal was abolished, and Lieutenant-Governors
were appointed for Bengal and the North-Western
Provinces, with such powers as might, from time to
time, be delegated by the Governor-General. The
possible conflict of authority which the position of a
Governor in Council towards the Governor-General
in Council might involve was thus avoided in regard
to those territories which did not fall within the
jurisdiction of the Governors of the Madras and
Bombav Presidencies.

The Statute of 1833 further reconstituted the
Governor-General’s Council and strengthened the
egislature by adding a legislative Counsellor from
sach Province.

When, in 1858, the Government was entirely
taken over by the Crown, no immediate change was
made in the administration in India beyond that
everything, as it stood, was transferred to the Queen.
All appointments to the office of Governor-General,
or Governor, were vested in the Crown as a matter of
course : Lieutenant-Governorships being filled up by