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riage, or by Succession to an Intestate’s Estate, or by the Custom of the City of London, or by Settlement; and that such Stock has not been transferred or made to me fraudulently or collusively on Purpose to qualify me to give my Vote; and that I have not before given my Vote on this Ballot. So help me

And in case any Person taking the Oath or Affirmation hereby appointed shall thereby commit wilful Perjury, and be thereof convicted; and if any Person do unlawfully or corruptly procure or suborn any other Person to take the said Oath or Affirmation, in order to vote, whereby he or she shall commit such wilful Perjury, and shall be thereof convicted, he, she, and they, for every such Offence, shall incur such Pains and Penalties as are in and by Two Acts of Parliament, the One made in the Fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for punishing such Persons as shall procure or commit wilful Perjury, or suborn or procure any Person to commit any wilful or corrupt Perjury; the other made in the Second Year of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing, and further Punishment of Forgery, Perjury, and Subornation of Perjury, and to make it Felony to steal Bonds, Notes, or other Securities, for Payment of Money, directed to be inflicted for Offences committed contrary to the said Acts.

VII. And, for the better Management of the said United Company’s Affairs in India, be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That, for the Government of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, there shall be appointed a Governor-general, and Four Counsellors; and that the whole Civil and MiltaryMilitary [sic] Government of the said Presidency, and also the Ordering, Management and Government, of all the Territorial Acquisitions and Revenues in the Kingdoms of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, shall, during such Time as the Territorial Acquisitions and Revenues shall remain in the Possession of the said United Company, be, and are hereby vested in the said Governor-general and Council of the said Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, in like Manner, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as the same now are, or at any Time heretofore might have been exercised by the President and Council, Select Committee, in the said Kingdoms.

VIII. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cases whatsoever wherein any Difference of Opinion shall arise upon any Question proposed in any Consultation, the said Governor-general and Council shall be bound and concluded by the Opinion and Decision of the major Part of those present: And if it shall happen that, by the Death or Removal, or by the Absence, of any of the Members of the said Council, such Governor-general and Council shall happen to be equally divided; then, and in every such Case, the said Governor-general or, in his Absence, the eldest Counsellor present, shall have a casting Voice, and his Opinion shall be decisive and conclusive.

IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Governor-General and Council, or the major Part of them, shall have, and they are hereby authorised to have, Power of superintending and controuling the Government and Management of the Presidencies of Madrass, Bombay, and Bencoolen respectively, so far and in so much as that it shall not be lawful for any President and Council of Madrass, Bombay, or Bencoolen, for the Time being, to make any Orders for commencing Hostilities, or declaring or making War, against any Indian Princes or Powers, or for negotiating or concluding any Treaty of Peace, or other Treaty, with any such Indian Princes or Powers, without the Consent and Approbation of the said Governor-general and Council first had and obtained, except in such Cases of imminent Necessity as would render it dangerous to postpone such Hostilities or Treaties until the Orders from the Governor-general and Council might arrive; and except in such Cases where the said Presidents and Councils respecivelyrespectively [sic] shall have received special Orders from the said United Company; and any President and Council of Madrass, Bombay, or Bencoolen, who shall offend in any of the Cases aforesaid, shall be liable to be suspended from his or their Office by the Order of the said Governor-general and Council; and every President and Council of Madrass, Bombay, and Bencoolen, for the Time being, shall, and they are hereby respectively directed and required, to pay due Obedience to such Orders as they shall receive, touching the Premises, from the said Governor-general and Council for the Time being, and constantly and diligently to transmit to the said Governor-general and Council Advice and Intelligence of all Transactions and Matters whatsoever that shall come to their Knowledge, relating to the Government, Revenues or Interest, of the said United Company; and the said Governor-general and Council for the Time being shall, and they are hereby directed and required to pay due Obedience to all such Orders as they shall receive from the Court of Directors of the said United Company, and to correspond, from Time to Time, and constantly and diligently transmit to the said Court an exact Particular of all Advices or Intelligence, and of all Transactions and Matters whatsoever, that shall come to their Knowledge, relating to the Government, Commerce, Revenues, or Interest, of the said United Company; and the Court of Directors of the said Company, or their Successors, shall, and they are hereby directed and required, from Time to Time, before the Expiration of Fourteen Days after the receiving any such Letters or Advices, to give in and deliver unto the High Treasurer, or Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury for the Time being, a true and exact Copy of such Parts of the said Letters or Advices as shall any way relate to the Management of the Revenues of the said Company; and in like Manner to give in and deliver to One of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, a true and exact Copy of all such Parts of the said Letters or Advices as