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IndianLegalHistoryPart31688MadrasMayorsCourt

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Municipalcorporationsenjoyedthejudicialpowersalso.Company
issued the charter and started Madras Corporation utilizing the

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In the year 1687 company established Madras Corporation and

MayorsCourtwasthepartofthiscorporation.
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In the year 1686 Madras government levied a house tax on the
Madras city population to repair the city wall, but people of

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Madras, local people did not pay the tax and company faced

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1600to1935

Afterthiscompanydecidedthattomakethetaxcollectioneasy,a
body should be formed consisting of English men as well as local
IndianpopulationsoitwillbecomeeasyfortheCompanyofficials
tocollectthetax.
ThecorporationcameintoexistenceonSeptember,29,1968which
consistedofaMayor,12Aldermenandfrom60to120Burgesses.
It was decided that every year new Mayor will be elected from
Aldermen by aldermen and burgesses and retiring Mayor can be
reelectedbythem.
ThealdermenandBurgessesgotthepowertoremovetheMayorif
heisunabletoperformhisduties.
OnlyEnglishmancanbecometheMayor.
TheAldermenholdtheofficeaslongastheystayedinMadrascity.
Indirectlytheyholdtheofficeforlifelong.
MayorandBurgessesholdthepowertoremovetheAldermenfrom
officealsoifhedidnotperformwell.
Among the Aldermen minimum 3 were required to be British

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servantsofthecompanyandother9canbelongtoanynationality
orreligion.
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JewsandArmenians3
Thecharterappointed29BurgessesandthenremainingBurgesses
wereappointedbytheMayorandAldermen.
Amongthefirst60Burgesses,thecasteheadswereselectedasthe
Burgesses.
ThiswasthenatureofFirstCorporation.
TheMayorandthe3seniorAldermenweretobetheJusticesofthe
peace.
TheMayorandAldermenweretoformaCourtofrecordwhichwas
authorizedtotrycivilaswellascriminalcases.
ThiscourtwasknownasMayorsCourt.
TheMayorscourtwasauthorizedtogivefollowingpunishments.
Fine,amercement,imprisonmentandcorporalpunishment.
The convicted persons got right to file appeal at the Admiralty
court.
AsMayorandAldermendidnothavelegalknowledgetheprovision
wasmadefortheappointmentoftheRecorderofthecourt.
HehelpedtheMayorregardingthecasesandhealsogotthepower
tovotejustlikeAldermen.
The recorder of the court was required to be skillful in the law as
wellastheservantofthecompany.
ThecharterappointedtheJudgeAdvocateSirBiggsasthe
firstRecorder.
Onlyintheyear1712thecourtgotpowertogivedeathsentenceto
nativepeople.
TheMayorCourtdidnotfollowuniformpunishmentforthesame
crime it depend on the judges discretion for this the reason was
thattheMayorandhisteamdidnothaveanylegalknowledge.
SirBiggsgottheexperienceofworkingasarecorderintheLondon
but here in Madras the problem was that Sir Biggs sat in the
AdmiraltyCourtasJudgeAdvocatewhereappealsfromtheMayors
Courtwerewent.
Butcompanyignoredthisfact.
AfterthedeathofSirBiggsnoRecorderwasappointed.
Like this in the period of 1686 to 1726 in Madras city 3 Courts
functioned.
MayorsCourt,ChoultryCourtandAdmiraltyCourt.
After 1704, Governor and Council heard the appeals from the
MayorscourtasAdmiraltycourtstoptofunction.
Inthisperiodalsothecriminalsweresolongkeptinjailsthateven
peopleforgotthecrimes.
Justicesystemwasveryslowandnoonebothered.
ThecapitalpunishmentwasgivenbyHanging.
RobberywaspunishedwithDeath.
Witchcraftwaspunishedwithfineandpillory.
Meaningofthewords
Alderman
1. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in
manyjurisdictions.
2. A member of the higher branch of the municipal or borough
councilinEnglandandIrelandbefore1974.
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3. one of the senior members of a local council, elected by other

councilors
Burgesses
A magistrate of a borough generally, the chief officer of the
corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of
duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is
sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are
called burgesses sometimes it signifies the representatives of a
boroughinparliament.
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4COMMENTS:
jamosjhalla,February21,2010
Good.Ithinkhistoricsystemofthistaxingor
administrationneedssurgery.

sm,February24,2010
jamosjhalla,
thanks

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THANKS.....ITISREALLYGOODTOHAVETHE
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sm,March18,2010
aNKIT
thanks

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