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To explain the words, by the order and authority of,” as applied to the Governor General and Council of Bengal, it may not be improper to have recourse to another Statute of the same year, 26. Geo: 3, c. 16, - which [ILL] (sect: 12) that “all orders & other proceedings of the said Supreme Council shall in future be expressed to be made by the Governour General in Council, and shall be signed by the Chief Secretary – or his deputy, by the Authority of the Governour General in Council –
Such being the legal and usual mode of passing such orders, it must be supposed that the return, speaking of an order of the Govr General in Council, [ILL] an order so passed.
When a commitment so made by a court of Justice to an office of the Court [ILL] minute of the order of court is taken down by the proper officer, & remains there as an authentick memorial; but there is no warrant of commitment, and therefore
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