diseases; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature in respect to destructive insects and pests and plant disease to such extent as may be declared by any Act of the Indian Legislature. 8. Civil Veterinary Department including provision for veterinary training, improvement of stock, and prevention of animal diseases; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature in respect to animal diseases to such extent as may be declared by any Act of the Indian Legislature. 11. Forests including preservation of game therein; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature as regards disforestation of reserved forests. 12. Excise, that is to say, the control of production, manufacture, possession, transport, purchase, and sale of alcoholic liquor and intoxicating drugs, and the levying of excise duties and license fees on or in relation to such articles but excluding, in the case of opium, control of cultivation, manufacture, and sale for export. 13. Registration of deeds and documents; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature. 14. Registration of births, deaths, and marriages; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature for such classes as the Indian legislature may determine. 15. Religious and charitable endowments. 16. Development of industries, including industrial research and technical education. 17. Stores and Stationery required for transferred department; Subject, in the case of imported stores and stationery to such rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State in Council. 18. Adulteration of food-stuffs and other articles; subject to legislation by the Indian legislature as regards import and export trade. 19. Weights and measures; subject to legislation by the Indian Legislature as regards standards. 20. Libraries (other than Imperial Library ), Museums (except the Indian Museum, Imperial War Museum, and the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta) and Zoological Gardens. Appendix C. Schedule of Acts which cannot be amended without the previous sanction of the Governor-General in Council. The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1865 1867. The Indian Majority Act, 1875. XV The Indian Contract Act, 1872. The Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872. The Married Womens' Property Act, 1874. 1877 I The Specific Relief Act, 1877. Short title. The Probate & Administration Act, 1881. The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. The Transfer of Property Act, 1882. The Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1891. The Epidemic Diseases Act 1897. The Indian Short Titles Act 1897. The Code of Civil Procedure 1908. 1908. XV The Indian Ports Act 1908. 39 The Indian Registration Act 1908. The Presidency Towns The Indian Lunacy Act 1912. The Provident Insurance Societies Act 1912. Short title. The Indian Life Assurance Companies Act. 1912 The Musalman Wakf Validating Act 1913. The Local Authorities Loans Act 1914. 1916. The Inland Steam Vessels Act 1917. The Destructive Insects & Pests Act 1914. Act 1919. Act 1917. The Usurious Loans Act 1918. The Provincial Insolvency Act 1920. The Charitable and Religious Trusts Act Appendix D, Governors and their Duties. The King Emperor's Instructions. 1920. The following are the terms of the Instruction which have been issued under the Royal Sign Manual to the Governor or acting Governor for the time being of each Governor's Province: George R. I. Instructions to the Governor or Acting Governor for the time being of the Presidency (or) Province of— Whereas by the Government of India Act provision has been made for the gradual development of self-governing institutions in British India, with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible Government in that country as an integral part of our Empire, and whereas it is our will and pleasure that in the execution of the office of Governor in and over the Presidency (or) Province of-you shall further the purposes of the said Act, to the end that the institutions and methods. of Government therein provided shall be laid upon the best and surest foundations, that the people of the said Presidency (or) Province shall acquire such habits of political action, and respect such conventions as will best and soonest fit them for self-government, and that our authority and the authority of the Governor-General in Council shall be duly maintained. Now, therefore, we do hereby direct and enjoin you and declare our will and pleasure to be as follows: (1) You shall do all that lies in your power to maintain the standards of good administration, to encourage religious toleration, co-operation, and good will among all classes and creeds, to ensure the probity of public finance, and the solvency of the Presidency (or) Province, and to promote all measures making for the moral, Social, and industrial welfare of the people, and tending to it all classes of the population without distinction, to take their due share in the public life and government of the country. (2) You shall bear in mind that it is necessary and expedient that those now and hereafter to be enfranchised shall appreciate the duties, responsibilities, and advantages which spring from the privilege of enfranchisement, that is to say that those who exercise the power henceforward entrusted to them of returning representatives to the Legislative Council, being enabled to perceive the effects of their choice of a representative, and that those who are returned to the Council being enabled to perceive the effects of their votes given therein, shall come to look for the redress of their grievances, and the improvement of their condition to the working of the representative institutions. (3) In as much as certain matters have been reserved for the administration according to law of the Governor in |