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TITLES OF ACTS. PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL IN THE YEAR 1898.

I. An Act to extend the provisions of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891, to the Books of Post Office Savings Banks and Money Order Offices.
II. An Act to annex the Estate of Porahat to the Singhbhum District, and for certain other purposes.
III. An Act to provide for the grant of Special Tenancics in certain. Government lands in the Punjab.
IV. to amend the Law relating to Partition.
V. An Act to legalise in certain eases the execution: within British India of capital sentences which have been passed by British Courts exercising in or with respect to territory beyond the limits of British India jurisdiction which the Governor General in Council has in such territory.
VI. An Act for settling Bonds of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay producing an annual income of one lakh and twenty-five thousand rupees and a Mansion-house and hereditaments called "Petit Hall." in the Island of Bombay, the property of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, Baronet, so as to accompany and support the title and dignity of a Baronet lately conferred by Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria on him for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease to hold to his second son, Framjee Dinshaw Petit, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue with remainder to the heirs male of the body of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, and for other purposes connected therewith.
VII. An Act to amend the Inland Emigration Act, 1882.
VIII. An Act to amend the Indian Coinage Act, 1870, and the. Indian Paper Curreney Act, 1882.
IX. An Act to amend the Indian Tariff Act, 1882, as amended by subsequent Acts.
X. An Act to amend the Excise Act, 1881.
XI. An Act to make provision for certain matters connected with the Tributary Mahals of Orissa.