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Juſtices, or ſo many of them as ſhall then-and there aſſemble, and be preſent, ſhall have taken the ſaid Oaths, and made and ſubſcribed the like Declaration, the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, ſhall be proclaimed and publiſhed in due Manner, and proceed forthwith to the Execution of the ſeveral Authorities hereby'veſted in it.
Former Charter of 26th George II. to be void after Publication of the Supreme CourtsAnd it is Our further Will and Pleaſure, that from and after ſuch publiſhing and proclaiming of the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, the ſaid Mayor's Court of Calcutta, at Fort-William in Bengal aforeſaid, granted, erected and created, by and in the above-mentioned Charter, made in the Twentyſixth Year of Our ſaid Royal Grandfather, and alſo the Court of Record, in Nature of a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, erected and created by the ſaid Charter, and all the Authority thereby given to the Preſident, or Governor or Council, of Fort-William in Bengal, to be or act as Commiſſioners of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery; and every Clauſe and Article in the ſaid Charter, which extends or relates to the Eſtabliſhment of the ſaid Mayor's Court of Calcutta, at Fort-William in Bengal, or the ſaid Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, or to the Civil, Criminal, or Eccleſiaſtical Juriſdiction of the ſaid Courts, or any of them, ſhalt ceaſe, determine, and be utterly void, to all Intents and Purpoſes whatſoever: Judgments pronounced by the Mayor's Court to be in Force; Provided always, that no Judgment, Decree, Decretal, or other Order, Rule or Act, of the ſaid Mayor's Court of Calcutta, at Fort-William in Bengal, or the ſaid Courts of Oyer and Termiiner, and Gaol Delivery reſpectively, theretofore legally pronounced, given, had or done, ſhall be thereby avoided, but ſhall remain in full Force and Virtue, as if theſe Preſents had not been made; Proceedings depending in the Mayor's Court, &c. not to be abated, but transferred to the Supreme Court; nor ſhall any Indictment, Information, Action, Suit, Cauſe or Proceeding, depending in the ſaid Mayor's Court of Calcutta, at Fort-William in Bengal, or in the ſaid Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, be abated or annihilated, but the ſame ſhall transferred, in their then preſent Condition, reſpectively to, and ſubſift and depend in the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William, to all Intents and Purpoſes, as if they had been reſpectively commenced in the laſt men-tioned