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92 law, for trying in the first instance persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors, and enabling the Governor-General and the members of the Supreme Council to sit in the Nizámat Adálat (which were for that purpose again removed to Calcutta) and superintend the administration of criminal justice throughout the provinces. These Regulations, with the subsequent amendments, are now re-enacted with further alterations and modifications .'

The above quotation from the new Code of this time, with other like deliverances, is illustrative of the extreme caution with which the Government proceeded to assume its responsibilities and to carry out reforms. These changes to readers and administrators of the present generation seem easy and natural. Collectors who could only advise native Judges — English magistrates who might apprehend and yet not try criminals — a Government which