SIXTH

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SIXTH CLASS
Civilians of less than 4 years'

standing

STANDING

to rank with Subalterns.

Note

NOTE
NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

1.-Commissioners of Divisions within their own Divisions, and Residents and Political Agents within the limits of their respective charges, to take precedence immediately before Civilians of the 1st Class.

Note

NOTE
NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

2.-Collectors and Magistrates of Districts, and

Deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

Commissioners of Districts, and the

Chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

Officer of each

Presidency

PRESIDENCY

Municipality, to take precedence within their respective charges before the 3rd Class and

Lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-Colonels in the Army.
Sheriffs to rank within their charges immediately after

Lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-Colonels in the Army.
All

Officers

OFFICERS

not mentioned in the above table, whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the Army, to have the same rank with reference to Civil Servants as is enjoyed by Military

Officers

OFFICERS

of equal grades.
All other persons who may not be mentioned in this table to take rank according to general usage, which is to be explained and determined by the

Governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-General in Council in case any question shall arise.
Nothing in the foregoing rules to disturb the existing practice relating to precedence at Native Courts, or on occasions of inter-course with Natives, and the

Governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-General in Council to be empowered to make rules for such occasions in case any dispute shall arise.
All ladies to take place according to the rank herein assigned to their respective husbands, with the exception of wives of Peers, and of ladies having precedence in England, independently of their husbands, and who are not in rank below the daughters of Barons; such ladies to take place according to their several ranks, with reference to such precedence in England, immediately after the wives of Members of Council at the Presidencies in India.
Given at Our

Court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

at Windsor, this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and in the thirty-fourth year of our Reign.
By Her Majesty's Command.
(Signed) ARGYLL.

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