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The Government of India Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transferral of its functions to the British Crown.
The Pitt’s India Act in 1784, also known as the East India Company Act, was passed in British Parliament to correct the defects of the previously signed Regulating Act in 1773. The Regulating Act in 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that’s purpose was to overhaul the management of the East India Company’s rule in India.
In August, by the Government of India Act 1858, the company's ruling powers over India were transferred to the British Crown. [181] A new British government department, the India Office , was created to handle the governance of India, and its head, the Secretary of State for India , was entrusted with formulating Indian policy.
An Act for granting, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and one, certain Allowances to Adjutants, Serjeant Majors, and Serjeants of Militia, disembodied under an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for enabling his Majesty to accept the Services of an additional Number of Volunteers from the Militia ...
An act for enabling his Majesty to grant commissions for executing an act made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for the better preservation of timber in the new forest in the county of Southampton, and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest and of the lands of the crown ...
An Act to explain and amend Two Acts passed in the Forty third [d] and Forty fourth [e] Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for making and maintaining an Inland Navigation, commonly called The Caledonian Canal, by establishing further Checks upon the Expenditure of Public Money for that Purpose, in certain Cases.
An Act to alter and amend an Act, passed in the Thirty ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for rendering more commodious and for better regulating the Port of London," [j] so far as the same relates to the Concerns of the West India Dock Company thereby established, and for extending to other Objects the Compensations ...
An Act for altering and amending an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of His present Majesty, [az] to amend an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of His present Majesty, [ba] to improve the Land Revenue of the Crown, so far as relates to the Great Forest of Brecknock, in the County of Brecknock; and for vesting in His Majesty certain Parts of the ...