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WARRANT OF PRECEDENCE FOR INDIA numbers of the entries. Those included in one number will take precedence inter se according to the date of entry into that number.

When an officer holds more than one position in the table he will be entitled to the highest position accorded to him.

Officers who are temporarily officiating in any number in the table will rank in that number below permanent incumbents.

All officers not mentioned in the above table, whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the Army, to have the same rank with reference to Civil Servants as is enjoyed by Military Officers of equal grades.

All other persons who may not be mentioned in this table to take rank according to general usage, which is to be explained and determined by the Governor-General in Council in case any question shall arise.

Nothing in the foregoing rules to disturb the existing practice relating to precedence at Native Courts, or on occasions of intercourse with Natives, and the Governor-General in Council to be empowered to make rules for such occasions in case any dispute shall arise.

All ladies to take place according to the rank herein assigned to their respective husbands, with the exception of wives of Peers, and of ladies having precedence in England independently of their husbands, and who are not in rank below the daughters of Barons, such ladies to take place according to their several ranks, with reference to such precedence in England, immediately after the wives of Members of the Council of the Governor-General.

Given at Our Court at Windsor, this tenth day of December in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety eight and in the Sixty-second Year of Our Reign.

— (Number 55 of the Warrant)

Assay Master of the Mint, Calcutta and Bombay.

Chief Judges of the Presidency Courts, Small Causes.

Commissioners of Police, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay and Rangoon.

Deputy Comptroller-General.

Director-General of Archaeology. ix