RAMAPERSHAD ROY, Government Pleader in the Sudder Court of Bengal. Principal of the Calcutta Madrasah. Formerly Member of the Council of Education. Apothecary to the East India Company. Director of Public Instruction in the North-Western Provinces, being the first Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows of the said University, and all the persons who may hereafter become, or be appointed to be Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, or Fellows as hereinafter mentioned, so long as they shall continue to be such Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, or Fellows, are hereby constituted and declared to be one. Body Politic and Corporate by the name of the University of Calcutta; and such Body Politic shall by such name have perpetual succession, and shall have a common seal, and by such name shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and answer and be answered unto, in every Court of Justice within the territories in the possession and under the Government of the East India Company. II. The Body Corporate shall be able and capable in law to take, purchase, and hold any property, Power to hold and dismovable or immovable, which may be pose of property. come vested in it for the purpose of the University by virtue of any purchase, grant, testamentary dispo sition, or otherwise; and shall be able and capable in law to grant demise, alien, or otherwise dispose of, all or any of the property movable and immovable, belonging to the University; and also do all other matters incidental or appertaining to a Body Corporate. III. If any person being Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, or Fellow of the said University shall leave India without the intention of returning there Effect of retirement. to, his office shall thereupon become vacant. IV. The Governor-General of India fo the time being shall be the Chancellor of the said University, and the first Chancellor shall be the Chancellor. Right Honourable Charles John Viscount Canning. V. The first Vice-Chancellor of the said University shall be Sir James William Colvile, Knight. The office of Vice-Chancellor shall be Vice-Chancellor. held or two years only; and the Vice-Chancellor herein before nominated shall go out of office on the first day of January, 1859. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Vice-Chancellor of the said University by death, resignation, departure from India, effluxion of time, or otherwise, the Governor-General of India in Council shall by notification nominate a fit and proper person, being one of the Fellows of the said University, to be ViceChancellor in the room of the person occasioning such vacancy : Provided that on any vacancy in the said office, which shall occur by effluxion of time, the Governor-General of India in Council shall have power to re-appoint the Vice-Chanceller herein before nominated or any future Vice-Chancellor to such office. VII. The Governor-General of India in Council may cancel the appointment of any person already appointed or hereinafter to be appointed a Fellow of the University, and, as soon as such order is notified in the Gazette, the person so appointed shall cease to be a Fellow. The appointment of a Fellow may be cancelled. VIII. The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows, for the time being, shall have the entire Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows to sumanagement of and superintendence perintend the affairs of the over the affairs, concerns, and property University. of the said University; and in all cases unprovided for by this Act, it shall be lawful for the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows to act in such manner as shall appear to them best calculated to promote the purposes intended by the said University. XV. The said Chancellor, Vice-Chance lor, and Fellows shall have power to charge such reasonable Fees. fees for the Degrees to be conferred by them, and upon admission into the said University, and for continuance therein, as they, with the approbation of the GovernorGeneral of India in Council, shall from time to time see fit to impose. Such fees shall be carried to one General Fee Fund for the payment of expenses of the said University, under the direction and regulations of the Governor-General of India in Council, to whom the accounts of income and expenditure of the said University shall once in every year be submitted for such examination and audit as the said Governor-General of India in Council may direct. Annual Accounts. THE INDIAN UNIVERSITIES ACT 1904 (VIII OF 1904). SECTIONS. CONTENTS. 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Interpretation. The University. 3. Incorporation and powers of the University. 4. Constitution and powers of the Senate. Fellows. 5. Ex-officio Fellows. 6. Ordinary Fellows. 7. Ordinary Fellows elected by registered Graduates. 8. Ordinary Fellows elected by Senates. 12. Transitory Provisions. Election and nomination of Ordinary Fellows within one year after commencement of Act and temporary continuance of existing University administration. 16. Degrees, diplomas, licenses, titles and marks of honour. THE FIRST SCHEDULE.-EX-OFFICIO FELLOWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. THE SECOND SCHEDULE.-ENACTMENTS REPEALED. ACT No. VIII OF 1904. PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUN CIL. (Received the assent of the Governor-General on the 24th March, 1904.) This Act came into force on the 1st September, 1994. An Act to amend the law relating to the Universities of British India. WHEREAS by Acts II, XXII and XXVII of 1857, Act XIX of 1882 and Act XVIII of 1887, Universities were established and incorporated at Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Lahore and Allahabad; And whereas by Act XLVII of 1860 the Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were empowered to confer such degrees as should be appointed in the manner provided by the Act; And whereas by Act I of 1884 the Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were further empowered to confer the honor. rary degree of Doctor in the Faculty of Law; And whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the Universities of British India; It is hereby enacted as follows: 1. (1) This Act may be called the Indian Universities Act, 1904; and (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government Short title and com- may fix in this behalf by notification in the Gazette of India or the local official be. mencement. Gazette, as the case may 2. (1) This Act shall be deemed to be part of each of the Acts by which the said five Universities were respectively established and incorpo Interpretation. rated. (2) In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (a) the term " College " or " affiliated College " includes any collegiate institution affiliated to or maintained by the University: (b) the expression "the Government" means in relation to the University of Calcutta the Governor-General in Council, and in relation to the other Universities the Local Government and (c) the expressions" the University " and " the Act of Incorporation" and any expression denoting any University, authority or officer or any statute, regulation, rule or by-law of the University shall be construed with reference to each of the said Universities respectively. The University. 3. The University shall be and shall be deemed to have been Incorporation and pow- incorporated for the purpose (among ers of the University. others) of making provision for the instruction of students, with power to appoint University Professors and Lecturers, to hold and manage educational endowments, to erect, equip and maintain University libraries, laboratories and museums, to make regulations relating to the residence and conduct of students, and to do all acts, consistent with the Act of Incorporation and this Act, which tend to the promotion of study and research. 4. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act of InConstitution and powers corporation, the Body Corporate of the University shall consist of of the Senate. (a) the Chancellor ; (b) in the case of the University of Calcutta, the Rector; (c) the Vice-Chancellor ; (d) the ex-officio Fellows; and (e) the Ordinary Fellows (i) elected by registered Graduates or by the Senate ; (ii) elected by the Faculties; and (iii) nominated by the Chancellor. (2) The Ordinary Fellows shall, save as herein otherwise provided, hold office for five years : Provided that an Ordinary Fellow who has vacated his office may, subject to the provisions of this Act, be elected or nominated to be an Ordinary Fellow. (3) The Body Corporate shall be the Senate of the University, and all powers which are by the Act of Incorporation or by this Act conferred upon the Senate, or upon the Chancellor, Vice |