& .-the

 Secretary of State in Council : Provided also that
rules made under this Act shall not be subject to
alteration or amendment at meetings for the purpose
of making laws and regulations.

8. Itishereby declared that in the twenty-second
section of the Indian Councils Act,
1861, it was and is intended that
the words “ Indian territories now
under the dominion of Her Ma-.
 jesty” should be read and con.
strued as if the words “or hereafter” were and
had at the time of the passing of the said Act been
inserted next after the word “now ;” and further,
that the Acts third and fourth, William the Fourth,
chapter eighty-five, and sixteenth and seventeenth
Victoria, chapter ninety-five, respectively, shall be
read and construed as if at the date of the enactment
thereof respectively it was intended and had been
enacted that the said Acts respectively should extend
to and include the territories acquired after the dates
thereof respectively by the East India Company, and
should not be confined to the territories at the dates
of the said enactments respectively in the possession
and under the government of the said Company.
4. Sections thirteen and
thirty-two of the Indian Councils
Act, 1861, are hereby repealed, and
it is enacted that

(1) If any Additional Member of Council or any
Member of the Council of a Lieutenant-Governor,
 appointed under the said Act or this Act,
shall be absent ftom India or unable to attend
to the duties of his office for a period of two
consecutive months, it shall be lawful for
the Governor-General, the Governor, or the
Lieutenant Governor, to whose Council such