An Act to remove Doubts as to the Authority of the Senior Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India in the Absence of the President.
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen where the Governor-General of India has nominated some Member of his Council to be President of the said Council during his Absence under the Provisions of the Act of the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, and the President so appointed is absent owing to Indisposition or other Cause, whether it is competent to the Senior Member of the Council present at the Council to preside and exercise the Powers and Aut...