Page:White Paper on Indian States (1950).pdf/225



INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION OF (the Khasi Hill States mentioned in the statement attached).

We the rulers of the Khasi States specified below;

Having agreed to the establishment of a Federation of which all the said Khasi States are members;

And being desirous of acceding to the Dominion of India, individually as Rulers of the said Khasi States and collectively as members of the said Federation;

Do hereby declare that we accede to the Dominion of India with the intent that the Governor General of India, the Dominion Legislature, the Federal Court and any other Dominion authority shall, by virtue of this our Instrument of Accession, but subject always to the terms thereof, and for purposes only of the Dominion, exercise in relation to the said Khasi States such functions as may be vested in them by or under the Government of India Act, 1935, as for the time being in force in the Dominion of India (which Act as so in force is hereinafter referred to as "the Act").

2. WE hereby assume the obligation of ensuring that due effect in given to the provisions of the Act within the said Khasi States so far as they are applicable therein by virtue of this our Instrument of Accession.

3. SUBJECT to the provisions of the annexed Agreement (which shall be regarded as part of this our Instrument of Accession) we accept that the Dominion Legislature may make laws for the said Khasi States in respect of any matter.

(Signed by the Siems of the Khasi Hill States on the dates shown in the statement attached.) I do hereby accept this Instrument of Accession.

Dated this seventeenth day of August, Nineteen hundred and forty-eight.

C. RAJAGOPALACHARI, Governor General of India.