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The reformation of the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company . 2ndly . A
new model of the Court of Directors , and Powers and objects of act the effects
thereof . an enforcement of their authority over the servants abroad . h NINTH ...
The reformation of the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company . 2ndly . A
new model of the Court of Directors , and Powers and objects of act the effects
thereof . an enforcement of their authority over the servants abroad . h NINTH ...
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It was not , therefore , a matter of surprise to your Committee , that the General
Court , so composed , has at length grown to such a ... The duration of the
Directors in office was Court of Directors . rendered more permanent , and the
tenure itself ...
It was not , therefore , a matter of surprise to your Committee , that the General
Court , so composed , has at length grown to such a ... The duration of the
Directors in office was Court of Directors . rendered more permanent , and the
tenure itself ...
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As to the Court of Directors itself , it was left with very little regulation . The custom
of ballot , infinitely the most mischievous in a body possessed of all the ordinary
executive powers , was still left ; and your Committee have found the ill effects of
...
As to the Court of Directors itself , it was left with very little regulation . The custom
of ballot , infinitely the most mischievous in a body possessed of all the ordinary
executive powers , was still left ; and your Committee have found the ill effects of
...
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The Directors were not suffered either to nominate or to remove those whom they
were empowered to instruct ; from masters ... From that period the orders of the
Court of Directors became to be so habitually despised by their servants abroad ...
The Directors were not suffered either to nominate or to remove those whom they
were empowered to instruct ; from masters ... From that period the orders of the
Court of Directors became to be so habitually despised by their servants abroad ...
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They were to hold their offices for five years , after which term the patronage was
to revert to the Court of Directors . In the mean time such vacancies as should
happen were to be filled by that court , with the concurrence of the crown . The
first ...
They were to hold their offices for five years , after which term the patronage was
to revert to the Court of Directors . In the mean time such vacancies as should
happen were to be filled by that court , with the concurrence of the crown . The
first ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Little, Brown,, 1881 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 26 Apr 2013 |
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