Appointments which are made directly from the Sovereign, viz. the Judges, the Recorder, and Bishop.-(Vide Courts of Judiature, p. 240, sec. 1; Ecclesiastical Establishments, p. 336, sec. 2.) Appointments which are not valid until the approbation of the Sovereign is obtained thereto, viz. Governors-General, Governors, and Commanders-in-chief.-(Vide Government in p. 394, sec 28.) Appointments which the Sovereign may make in failure of the Court of Directors nominating.-(Vide Court of Directors, p., 221, sec. 58.) The right of the Sovereign to recall, vacate, or make void any appointments or commissions in India.-(Vide Servants Civil and Military, p. 634, sec. 12.) The right of the Sovereign to grant pensions chargeable on the revenues of India.-(Vide Pensions, p. 560.) SUPERANNUATIONS. In the year 1810 an act was passed to regulate and control 50 Geo. 3, the payment of pensions and superannuations in the various public departments and offices under Government. c. 117, c. 155, A similar provision was introduced into the act of 1813, when the Company's exclusive privileges were renewed, by which his Majesty is empowered to grant superannuations to 53 Geo. 3, the officers of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of $91 to 94. India, under the conditions of the act above adverted to. If any officer or servant of the Board has been in the service of the Company, the time of such service under the Company is to be taken into account in computing the number of years' service under the Board. By the ninety-third section of the act of 1813, the Court of Directors are empowered to grant superannuations to the Company's servants in England. His Majesty empowered to grant superannu ations to the officers of the Board of Control. LAWS. To Officers and Servants of the Board. 1813. c. 155, $91. (1) And whereas it is reasonable that his Majesty, LAWS. his heirs or successors, should have power to grant allowances, compensations, remunerations, or super- 53 Geo. 3, annuations to the secretaries and other officers of the said Board, under the conditions hereinafter provided; be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty, his heirs or successors, by any warrant or warrants under his or their sign-manual, countersigned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, to grant or allow to any of the secretaries or officers for the time being belonging to the said Board such allowances, compensations, remunerations, or superannuations as his Majesty, his heirs or successors, shall think proper, under and subject, nevertheless, to such or the like conditions, and in such or the like proportions, as allowances, compensations, remunerations, or superannuations 2 z LAWS. 1813. 53 Geo. 3, § 92. $93 annuations may now be made to public officers, by virtue of an act passed in the fiftieth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled “An "Act to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public "Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances, shall be annually laid before "Parliament, and to regulate and control the granting and paying "of such Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances ;" and that the same shall be paid and defrayed quarterly by the said Company, and be deemed and taken as part of their political charges. Previous service to be taken into account for offi (2) Provided always, that where any officer or servant of the said Board shall have been in the service of the said Company previously to his employment under the authority of the said Board, the time of such service under the said Company shall be taken into account, in computing the number of years service under the said Board. cers of the Board. Court of Directors empowered to grant superannuations to Company's servants in England. To Officers and Servants of the Company in England. (3) And whereas it is reasonable that the said Court of Directors should have power to grant allowances in the nature of superannuations to such of their officers and servants in England as from age or infirmity may no longer be qualified for the execution of their several offices or employments; be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Court of Directors to make allowances, compensations, remunerations, or superannuations to the officers and servants of the said Company in England, subject to the restrictions and according to the conditions and proportions following, that is to say, where it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said Court of Directors that any such officer or servant, being under sixty years of age, shall be incapable, from infirmity of mind or body, to discharge the duties of his office, in such case, if he shall have served with diligence and fidelity in the service of the said Company for ten years, it shall and may be lawful to grant him, by way of superannuation, any annual sum not exceeding one-third of the salary and allowed emoluments of his office; if above ten years and less than twenty, any such sum not exceeding one-half of such salary and allowed emoluments; if above twenty years, any such sum not exceeding two-thirds of such salary and allowed emoluments; if such officer or servant shall be above sixty years of age, and he shall have served fifteen years or upwards, it shall and may be lawful, without proof of infirmity of mind or body, to grant him, by way of superannuation, any annual sum not exceeding two-thirds of the salary and allowed emoluments of his office; if sixty-five years of age or upwards, and he shall have served forty years or upwards, any such sum not exceeding three-fourths of such salary and allowed emoluments; if sixty-five years of age or upwards, and he shall have served fifty years or upwards, any such sum not exceeding the whole of such salary and allowed emoluments: all which allowances so to be made shall LAWS. 1813. shall be charged in the books of account of the said Company to the debit of that branch of the Company's affairs to which the said officers or servants may respectively belong; any thing in the said act of the 53 Geo. 3, thirty-third year of his Majesty's reign to the contrary notwithstanding. Accounts of Superannuation to be laid before Parliament. Account of su- (4) Provided always, and be it further enacted, that perannuations to be laid before an account of all allowances, compensations, remuneParliament. rations and superannuations which shall be granted, either to the officers or servants of the said Board of Commissioners, or to the officers or servants of the said Company, as aforesaid, during the preceding year, shall be laid before Parliament within fifteen days after the meeting thereof. c. 155, § 93. § 94. BY-LAW. Allowances for (5) Such allowances in the nature of superan- c. 64, § 19. superannuation to officers and nuations, as the Court of Directors are empowered to servants in Eng- grant to their officers and servants of England by 53d land to be laid Geo. III, cap. 155, sec. 93, shall be laid before the next General Court. before next Ge neral Court. TANJORE COMMISSIONERS. THE Commission for investigating the claims on the Rajah of Tanjore takes its name from a district which extends along the sea-coast of the Southern Carnatic, principally between the tenth and eleventh degrees of north latitude. The Rajah of Tanjore paid peshcush or tribute to the Nabob of the Carnatic. Under the treaty of 1762, entered into between those princes, the Rajah was to pay twenty-two lacs of rupees for arrears of peshcush; also two lacs of rupees annually to the Nabob as tribute to the Mogul, and the further sum of two lacs as a present to the Nabob. At that period Pretaupa Sing was Rajah of Tanjore; he died in 1763, and was succeeded by Tuljajee. The provisions of this treaty involved the Rajah in repeated controversies with the Nabob. Arrears of peshcush accumulated; and additional motives were not wanting to induce the Nabob, on the plea of recovering what he considered to be his right, to invade the possessions of the Rajah; urging, at the same time, the Government of Fort St. George to co-operate with him in chastising what he termed the refractory spirit of the Rajah. The presidency complied: the English troops, under General Smith, encamped before Tanjore on the 23d September 1771. On the 27th October, the day on which it was reported that the breach would be practicable the following morning, the Nabob signed a peace with the Rajah. In 1773 the Nabob represented to the Madras Government that a large arrear of tribute was due; and, moreover, that the Rajah had applied to the Mahrattas and to Hyder, with the view of ravaging part of the Carnatic territory. The Madras Government resolved on aiding the Nabob in the conquest of Tanjore. The English force marched from Trichinopoly |