Section 1. (1) This Act may be called the Jhánsí and Morar Act, 1886; and

1. (1) This Act may be called the Jhánsí and Morar Act, 1886; and (2) It shall come into force on a date to be appointed in this behalf by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, which date is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. PART I. WHEREAS since the beginning of March, 1886, the town and fort of Jhánsí have been ceded to the British Government in full sovereignty by His Highness the Mahárájá Scindia in exchange for the cantonment of Morar which has been ceded to His Highness in full sovereignty by the British Government; And whereas the town and fort of Jhánsí have been declared by the Governor General in Council to be subject to the Lieutenant-Governorship of the North-Western Provinces; And whereas it is proposed that certain lands adjacent to the Jhánsí district should be ceded to the British Government in full sovereignty by His Highness in exchange for certain other lands to be ceded to His Highness in full sovereignty by the British Government; And 172 Jhánsí and Morar. [ACT XVII And whereas it is expedient that the town and fort of Jhánsí, and the lands to be ceded to the British Government, should be annexed to the Jhánsí district, and that the law in force therein should be the same as the law in force in that district; And whereas it is also expedient that the town and fort, and the lands which may be ceded to the British Government, should, for the purposes of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, form part of the Jhánsí district; XIV of 187. It is hereby enacted as follows:— 1. Annexation of ceded lands to Jhánsí district.