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APPENDIX L

SUPPLEMENTARY INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION OF HIS HIGHNESS THE MAHARAJA OF MYSORE.

WHEREAS by virtue of an Instrument of Accession executed by me on the ninth day of August, 1947, and accepted by the Governor-General of India on the sixteenth day of August, 1947, the State of Mysore has acceded to the Dominion of India;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Instrument of Accession should be varied by extending the functions which by virtue of that Instrument are exercisable by any Dominion authority in relation to the said State;

NOW THEREFORE, I Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Ruler of the State of Mysore do hereby execute this Supplementary Instrument and declare that as from the date on which this Supplementary Instrument is accepted by the Governor-General of India, the terms of any Instrument of Accession dated the 9th August 1947, shall have effect subject to the following variations, namely:—

1. In paragraph 1 of the said Instrument of Accession, for the words and figures 'on the fifteenth day of August, 1947' the words and figures 'on the First day of June, 1949' shall be substituted.

2. For paragraph 3 of the said Instrument of Accession, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely:—

3. I accept all matters enumerated in List I and List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Act as matters in respect of which the Dominion Legislature make laws for this State:

Provided that nothing contained in the said List or in any other provisions of the Act shall be deemed to empower the Dominion Legislature to impose any tax or duty in this State or any part thereof, or to prohibit the imposition of any duty or tax by the Legislature of this state in the said territories or any part thereof:

Provided further that where a law of this State with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the said List III contains any provisions repugnant to the provisions of an earlier Dominion Law or an existing law with respect to that matter, then if, the law of this State having been reserved for the consideration of the Governor-General of India has received the assent