Section I. It shall be lawful for the Governor-General of India in Council, by an order to be published in the

I. It shall be lawful for the Governor-General of India in Council, by an order to be published in the Government Gazette, to direct that within the Territories or any part of the Territories subject to the local Government of any Presidency or place, the general or special notices required by Sections XXXVII and XXXVIII of the said Act XXXII of 1860 shall not be issued for the year commencing from the 31st day of July 1862 in respect to the Duties contained in Schedules 1 and 2 of the said Act, and that in such Territories or part of such Territories the Returns of profits or income chargeable with Duties under the said Schedules, as prescribed by Section XXXIX of the said Act, for the year commencing as above, shall not be PRICE TWO ANNAS. ACT No. XVI OF 1862. be required; but that in the place of such notices a general notice shall be issued in such Territories or part of such Territories to the effect that, except as hereinafter provided, the assessment of the Duties contained in the said Schedules for the year commencing as above upon the several persons liable thereto, either on their own behalf or on behalf of any other person, shall be at the same rate and on the same amount at and on which such persons were or shall be assessed for the year ending on the 31st day of July 1862.