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(b) in clause (b), the following words shall be added at the end, namely:—
"and the total of seats in the Legislative Council of the United Provinces shall be increased by 1 and shall be not less than 58 and not more than 60".
"and the total of seats in the Legislative Council of the United Provinces shall be increased by 1 and shall be not less than 58 and not more than 60".
4. After Article 11 of the Principal Order, the following Article shall be inserted, namely:—
"12. As from the appointed day,—
(a) the jurisdiction of the High Court at Allahabad shall extend to the whole of the merged State of Rampur (hereinafter referred to as "Rampur") as it extends to the United Provinces;
(b) the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887, shall extend to, and be in force in, Rampur as it extends to, and is in force in, the United Provinces;
(c) the Ijlas-e-Humayun, the High Court of Rampur and the other Civil Courts in Rampur (hereinafter referred as "existing Civil Courts") shall cease to function, and are hereby abolished;
(d) the Charter relating to the High Court of Rampur given by His Highness the Nawab of Rampur in July, 1948, shall stand repealed;
(e) all proceedings (including proceedings for confirmation of sentences of death) pending before the Ijlas-e-Humayun immediately before the appointed day shall stand transferred to the High Court at Allahabad and shall be heard and decided by that Court as if they had been proceedings instituted or commenced in that Court or submitted to it for confirmation of a sentence of death by a Sessions Judge subordinate to that Court, in accordance with subsection (2) of section 31 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;
(f) all civil suits, execution cases and other proceedings (other than proceedings in company matters) instituted or commenced in the High Court of Rampur in the exercise of its original civil jurisdiction and pending before that High Court immediately before the appointed day shall stand transferred to the District Judge, Rampur;
