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2 CHAPTER L—()-COOCH BEHAR—concluded.
3 Supplementary Notes,
4 I.—Delegation of functions with respect to suits against the rig BNE | Notifi-
5 eation No. 1369-1., dated the 29th March, 1889, the Local Government of Bengal and its
6 Secretaries have been authorised, under section 433, sub-section (4), of the Code of Civil
7 Procedure, to exercise, with respect to His Highness the Mahéréjé of Cooch Behar, the func-
8 tions assigned by sub-sections (2), (2) and (8) of the said section to the Governor General in
9 Council and a Secretary to the Government of India, respectively. (See Gazetle of India,
10 1889, Pt. I, p. 187).
11 IL.—Execution of Cooch Behar deorees in British India.—By Notification No. 58-J.,
12 dated the 7th March, 1879 (see Gazetle of India, 1879, Part I, page 149), it was declared,
13 under section 434 of the then Code of Civil Procedure (Act X of 1877)("), that decrees of the
14 Civil and Revenue Courts of Cooch Behar might be executed in British India as if they had
15 been made by the Courts of British India, In a recent case reported in Indian Law Reports,
16 14 Cal., p. 646, Norris, J., pointed out that this Notification is now of no use, inasmuch as
17 there is no representative of Her Majesty or the Government of India residing in Cooch
18 Behar, and consequently certified gopies of judicial records of the State cannot be received
19 in avideuce in the Courts of British India under the provisions of section 86 of the Indian
20 Evidence Act, 1872. This defect has now, however, been removed by section 8 of Act III of
21 1891, which amends section 86 of the Evidence Act in such a way as to enable the Commis-
22 sioner of Rajshahye and other politicial officers similarly situated to grant the certificate required
23 by the section.
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25 (7) See now as. 220B. of Act X1V of 1882, as amonded by Act VII of 1888, a. 39.