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PRECEDENCE hood instituted since the piiblication of the above scale, will, of course, take precedence as in the General Table. PRECEDENCE IN INDIA. The Royal Warrant by which precedence is now regulated in British India, bears date December 10th, 1898, and was issued to svipersede all other tables of precedence previously pre- scribed. The comparative rank of officers of the Navy and Army is the same in India as it had always been in the Eiiropean dominions of His Majesty (for the detail of which the reader is referred to the table on that subject) ; therefore, all officers -not mentioned in the subjoined table, whose rank, is regulated by comparison with rank in the Army, enjoy the same rank with reference to civil servants as is enjoyed by military officers of equal grades. All other persons, not mentioned in the following table, take rank according to general usage, the Governor-General in Council determining all disputes. Precedence amongst women is regulated by the official, not the hereditary or personal rank of their husbands, with the exception of Peers' wives, and of ladies possessing precedence in England independently of their husbands, pro- vided this be not below the daughters of Barons. Such ladies rank according to English rules inter se, and follow immediatelt/ after the wives of memhers of council at the presidencies in India. 1. Governor-General and Viceroy of India. 2. Governors of Madras and Bombay. 3. President of the Council of the Governor- General. 4. Lieutenant-Governor, when in his own territories. 5. Commander-in-Chief in India. 6. Lieutenant-Governor. 7. Chief Justice of Bengal. 8. Bishop of Calcvitta,, Metropolitan of India. 9. Ordinary Members of the Council of the Governor-General. 10. Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Naval Forces in the East Indies. 11. Chief Justice of a High Court other than that of Bengal. 12. Bishops of Madras and Bombay. 13. Ordinary Members of Council in Madras and Bombay. 14. Lieutenant-Generals Commanding the Forces, Piuijab, Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. 15. Chief Commissioners of the Central Prov- inces and Assam, Residents at Hyder- abad and in Mysore, and Agents to the Governor-General in Rajputana, Central India, and Baluchistan. 1 6. Puisne Judges of a High Court. 17. Chief .ludge of a Chief Court. 18. Military Officers above the rank of Major- General. 19. Additional Members of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations. 20. Bishops of Lahore, Rangoon, and Luck- now. 21. Secretaries to the Government of India. and Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Public Works Department. 22. Commissioner in Sind. 23. Jtidges of a Chief Coui't, Recorder of Ran- goon and Judicial Commissioners, Burma. 24. Chief Secretaries to the Governments of Madras and Bombay. 25. Major-Generals, Members of a Board of Revenue, Commissionei-s of Revenue and Customs, Bombay ; and Financial Commissioners, Punjab and Burma. 26. Judicial Commissioners, including Addi- tional Judicial Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces, and Sind. 27. Additional Members of the Councils of the Governors of Madras and Bombay for making Laws and Regulations. Members of the Legislative Council of a Lieutenant- Governor. 28. Vice-Chancellors of Indian Universities. FIRST CLASS. 29. Members of the Indian Civil Service of 30 years' standing. 30. Advocate-General, Calcutta. 31. Comptroller and Auditor-General. 32. Commissioners of Divisions, the Superin- tendent of Port Blair, and Residents, Political Agents, and Superintendents drawing Rs. 2000 a month and upwards (not being Collectors or Deputy Commis- sioners of British Districts), within their respective charges. 33. Chief Secretaries to Local Governments other than those of Madras and Bombay. 34. Surveyor-General of India, Directors-General of the Post Office, of Telegraphs in India and of Railways, Chief Engineers, First Class ; and the Directors of Railway Con- struction and Railway Traffic, Account- ants-General, Military and Public Works Departments ; Director, Royal Indian Marine ; and Manager, North -Western Railway. 35. Bishops (not territorial) under licence from the Crown. 36. Archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. 37. Brigadiers-General. 38. Commissioners of Divisions. 39. Commissioner of Northern India Salt Revenue ; and Opium Agents, Benares and Bihar. 40. Secretaries and Joint Secretaries to Local Governments, and Private Secretary to the Viceroy. SECOND CLASS. 41. Members of the Indian Civil Service of 23 years' standing and Colonels. 42. Military Secretary to the Viceroy. 43. Judicial Commissioners of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts and Baluchistan ; the Superintendent of Port Blair ; Residents, Political Agents, and Superintendents drawing Rs. 2000 a month and upwards (not being Collectors or Deputy Commissioners of British Districts). 44. Inspector-General of Forests in India, Director of the Geological Survey, and Director-General of Education in India. 45. Standing Counsel to the Government of India. 46. Directors of Public Instruction, and Inspectors-General of Police and Prisons under Local Governments ; and Account- ants-General. 47. Survey Commissioner and Director of Land Records and Agricvilture, Bombay ; Com- missioners of Settlements ; and Con- trollers of Military Accounts. 48. Chief or Senior Civil Secretary to a Local Administration. 49. Chief Engineers, second and third classes ; Deputy Surveyor-General : Deputy Direc- tor-General of Telegraphs in India : and Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Tele- graph Department. 50. Divisional, and District and Sessions Judges, Collectors and Magistrates of Districts ; Deputy Commissioners of Districts ; Deputy Superintendent of Port Blair ; and the Chief Officer of each Presidency Municipality, within their respective charges. 51. Archdeacons of Lahore, Lucknow, and Ran- goon. 52. Deputy Secretaries to the Government of India.