The Council of the Governor-General of India met at Simla on August 29, 1872, “for the purpose of making Laws and Regulations”.
According to the abstract of the proceedings, some of the matters discussed were:
ACT V OF 1872 AMENDMENT BILL... “to remove doubts as to the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Bombay over the Province of Sind”.
INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT AMENDMENT BILL, on the power of judges to administer oaths.
DEFINITION OF COIN AMENDMENT BlLL.
TRANSHIPMENT OF GOODS BILL, which “contained a clause declaring that opium imported by sea might, if the Local Government thought fit, be re-exported on payment of a duty equivalent to the fee which would have been payable if it had been transhipped”.
SEPOY LUNATICS’ BILL. “Major-General the Hon’ble H.W. NORMAN moved that the Report of the Select Committee on the Bill to provide for the admission of Native Military Lunatics into Asylums be taken into consideration.”

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