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'British Enactments in Force in Native States, Volume V: Orders relating to Railways in Native States' [68r] (140/246)
The record is made up of 1 volume (119 folios). It was created in 1914. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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119
SOUTHERN DIVISION . * 1
In the railway land in the Southern Division the following provisions have
been made for the exercise of the jurisdiction which has been ceded :—•
A. On the lines in the Travancore and Cochin States the laws, courts Shoranur-Cochin and
and administrative arrangements generally of the neighbouring British iaihvIys y ' QUll0U
Districts have been introduced, subject to the appointment of a separate Super
intendent of Police, by the following notifications :—
JSo. 5096-1. B., dated the 27th December 1906. —Whereas His Highness
the Maharaja of Travancore and His Highness the
Raja
King
of Cochin have ceded
to the British Government full and exclusive power and jurisdiction of every
kind over the lands lying within their respective States which are, or may
hereafter be, occupied by the Shoranur-Cochin Railway (including the lands
occupied by stations, by outbuildings, and for other railway purposes) and
over all persons and things whatsoever within the said lands :
In exercise of such power and jurisdiction and of the powers conferred
by the Indian (Foreign Jurisdiction)
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
, 1902, the Governor-
General in Council is [leased to provide as follows for the administration of
justice within the said lands :—•
(1) The said lands shall be deemed to be part of the Cochin taluk of the
Malabar district.
( 2 ) All laws 2 for the time being in force in the Malabar District of the
Madras
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
shall be deemed to be in force in the said lands.
(3j The Governor in Council of Fort St. George and all officers subor
dinate to the
Government of Madras
From 1684-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Madras [Chennai] and southern India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj.
who, for the time being exercise
authority within the Cochin taluk of the Malabar District, shall exercise the
like authority within the said lands :
Provided that the Superintendent of Police within the said lands shall,
under the general control and superintendence of the Inspector-General of
Police of the Madras
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
, be vested in the Superintendent of Railway '
Police, who may be appointed in this behalf by the Governor in Council of
Fort St. George and shall exercise throughout the said lands all the powers of
a District Superintendent within the meaning of the Madras District Police
Act, 1859 (XXIV of 1859).
1 According to the classification supra, p. 5.
I he Indian Railways Act, 18110, and the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905, have been
separately applied to these lands, along with others in Native States over which jurisdiction has
been ceded, by notification No. 784-1. B„ dated the 9th April 1913. Printed in Appendix
XVIII.
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The volume is British Enactments in Force in Native States, Volume V: Orders relating to Railways in Native States. Originally compiled by John Molesworth Macpherson, Secretary of the Government of India, Legislative Department, it was revised and continued up to 15 August 1899 by A Williams, for the Second Edition, and up to 19 April 1913 by Oswald Vivian Bosanquet, for this Third Edition. The volume was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1914.
The volume lists all laws relating to railways enacted by either the British Legislature or the British Indian Executive Government and in force in the Native States of India. The volume begins with three prefaces to each of the three editions, with notes on arrangements and definitions of terms.
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- 1 volume (119 folios)
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The volume is divided into two parts, each covering different types of acts. Each part is then arranged by geographical division: Eastern, Northern, North-Western, Western, North Central, South Central, and Southern. A breakdown of which railway lines are included in which division is found at the beginning of Part 1 (folios 9-11).
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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