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94 claim more than four votes. The Governor of Bengal was transformed into a Governor-General; his Council was reduced to four members; and under their joint control were placed the Governments of Madras and Bombay. The Governor-General's salary was fixed at £25,000, that of each Councillor at £10,000 a year. A Supreme Court of Judicature, consisting of a Chief Justice and three puisne judges, was to administer English law from Calcutta for all British subjects in the provinces ruled by the Governor-General. Copies of all civil and military despatches received at the India House were to be forwarded within a fortnight to certain members of the Ministry, for their information if they chose to read them, but not for their final orders thereon. The Company were secured in all their commercial privileges, including the trade in salt, betel-nut, and tobacco. As a mark of public confidence, Hastings was appointed Governor-General. The clamours of the India House against these new curtailments of their chartered rights were presently allayed by a loan of £1,400,000 from the national exchequer.

Of the new Councillors, one only, Richard Barwell, had belonged to Hastings' old Council. The other three. General Clavering, Colonel Monson, and Philip Francis, were selected in England by Lord North's Ministry for the manifest purpose of moulding the the views of Parliament and the Crown. Even if Barwell were to follow Hastings' lead, the nominees of