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( 6 ) Oriſſa, excepting the ſaid Governor General, Our ſaid Chief Juſtice of Our ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, and all and every ſuch Member, or Members, of the Supreme Council there, as ſhall reſpectively, by Priority of Nomination, be Senior or Seniors to ſuch reſpective Puiſne Juſtice or Juſtices, and alſo excepting all ſuch Perſons as by Law and Uſage take place in England, before Our Juſtices of the Court of King's-Bench.

We do hereby conſtitute and appoint Elijah Impey, of Lincoln's Inn, Eſq. Firſt Chief Juſtice; Robert Chambers, of the Middle-Temple, Stephen Cæſar Le Maiſtre, of the Inner-Temple, John Hyde, of Lincolns-Inn, Eſqrs; to be the Firſt Puiſne Justices of Our ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal; the ſaid Elijah Impey, Robert Chambers, Stephen Ceſar Le Maiſtre, and John Hyde, and every of them, being Barriſters in England, of Five Years ſtanding, and upwards.

We do further, for Us, Our Heirs and Succeſſors, grant, ordain and appoint, that the Perſon, who ſhall be the Sheriff at Fort-William in Bengal, at the Time of the Publication of this Our Charter, in Manner hereinafter directed, ſhall be and continue the Sheriff, until another ſhall be duly appointed and ſworn into the ſaid Office: We do further, for Us, Our Heirs and Succeſſors, grant, direct and appoint, that the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, ſhall, upon the Firſt Tueſday of December, in every Year, nominate Three Perſons, reſident in the Town of Calcutta, or the Precincts thereof, to the Governor General and Council, or the major Part of them, who within Three Days after ſuch Nomination, ſhall appoint One of the Said Three Perſons to ſerve the Office of Sheriff, for the Year enſuing, to be computed from the Twentieth Day of December next after ſuch Appointment; which Sheriff ſhall, as ſoon as conveniently may be, and before he ſhall enter upon his ſaid Office, take an Oath, faithfully to execute his Office, and the Oath of Allegiance, before the Governor General, or, in