An Act 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 an Act was passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act 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: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act be amended; and it being requisite for retaining the Forces of the East India Company in their D...