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 GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION 121

Education and Railways. At the head of each, except the Railway Depart- ment, is one of the secretaries to the Government of India. The President of the Railway Board is the head of the Railway Department and he is authorised to act as if he were a Secretary to the Government of India. Each department, except the Foreign Department, which is under the immediate superintendence of the Governor-General, is assigned to the special care of one of the members of the Council.

The Couucil is expanded into a legislative council by the addition of other members nominated by the Viceroy or elected under the Act of 1909. The Legislative Council now consists of 68 members, 36 being official and 32 non-official, special provision being made for the representation of Ma- homadans. A Governor or a Lieutenant-Governor is also an additional mem- ber when the Council sits within his province. This Council has power, subject to certain restrictions, to make laws for all persons within British India, for all British subjects within the Native States, and for all native Indian subjects of the King in any part of the world. The proceedings in the Legislative Council are public.

As the result of administrative changes in 1912, India is now divided into ten great and five smaller provinces as follows : —

Madras: Governor, Rt. Hon. Baron Pentland, P.C, G.C.I. E. (1912); salary, Rs. 120,000 a year.

Bombay: Governor, Baron Willingdon (April, 1913); Rs. 120,000.

Bengal: Governor, Rt. Hon. Baron Carmichael of Skirling, G.C.I.E., K.C.M.G. (1912); Rs. 120,000.

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh : Lieut. -Governor, Sir J. S. Meston, K. C.S.J. (1912) ; salary, Rs. 100,000.

The Punjab: Lieut.. Governor, M. F. 0'Dv\yer, C.S.I. (May, 1913); Rs. 100,000.

Burma.: Lieut. -Governor, Sir Harvey Adamson, K.T., K. C.S.I. (1910); Rs. 100,000.

Bihar and Orissa : Lieut. -Governor, Sir Charles Stuart Bayley, K. C.S.I. (1912) ; Rs. 100,000.

Central Provinces and Berar : Chief Commissioner, Sir B. Robertson, K.C.S.I., CLE. (1912) ; Rs. 62,000.

Assam : Chief Commissioner, Sir Archdale Earle, K.C.I.E. ; Rs. 62,000.

N.W. Frontier Province: Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner: Lt. -Colonel Sir G. O. Roos-Keppel, K.C.I.E. (1912); Rs 54,000.

Ajmer-Merwara : Chief Commissioner, Sir E. G. Colvin, K.C.S.I. ; Rs. 4,000.

Coorg: Chief Commissioner, Lt.-Col. Sir H. Daly, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. ; Rs. 4,000.

British Baluchistan: Chief Commissioner, Lt-Col. J. Ramsay, C.S.I, CLE. ; Rs. 4,000.

Delhi : Chief Commissioner, W. M. Halley, CLE.

Andaman and Nicobars : Chief Commissioner, Lt.-Col. H. A. Browning; Rs. 3,000.

The Governors of Madras, Bombay, and Bengal are appointed by the Crown, and each of them has an executive council, consisting of two members of the Indian Civil Service, appointed by the Crown, and, under a recent Act 9 Edw. VI I. Ch. 4, Ihe Secretary of State may increase the number to four, of whom two at least must have been in the service of the Crown in India for at least twelve years. The Lieutenant-Governors are