An Act to repeal the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six, for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company; and for regulating in such Service the Payment of Regimental Debts and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service.
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Officers and Soldiers of Her Majesty’s European Forces in India should from henceforth be subject to the Provisions of such Acts for the Punishment of Mutiny and Desertion as may from Time to Time be passed for the Government of Her Majesty’s General Forces: And whereas Provision has been made in that Behalf in the Act "for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters," which has been passed in the present Session o...