Section 111. All Courts and persons aforesaid shall take judicial notice of all Judicial notice

111. All Courts and persons aforesaid shall take judicial notice of all Judicial notice `to` be public Acts of Parliament and of all local and personal Pa~liament. p1lbKc Acts Acts declared by Parliament to be public and to be judicially noticed, and shall admit as p.l.imcc" facie evidence of What shall be prim4 . `.facie` proof of a private any private Act of Parliament, any copy thereof purportAct. ing to be printed by the King's Printer. IV. Every C 1 1 \ ),?< .@ Z" +r .A `,.2j s,;` .>* , .>* ,2 ! 1 .;' ? +% \ $ -; `3` d `4` `.e` 1 i 9 L: ACT No. I1 OF 9855. IV. Every C0uz.t shall take judicial notice of its o m Nembers and Officers respectively, and of their deputies and subordiJudicial notice to be talcen by Court of its own nate Officers or Assistants, and also of all Officers acting Officers, &c. in execution of its process, and of all Advocates, Attornies, Proctors, Valceels, Pleaders, and other persons authoi<zed by Law to act before it. ' V. All Courts and persons aforesaid shall take judicial notice of the Judicial notice to be names, titles, and authorities of the persons filling for the talcell of the names, titles, time bekg ally one of the followipg offices in any part of &c., of certaiu persons. the said territories :-~oveimor-~eneral, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or Deputy Governor, Secretary or Under-Secretary to Government, commander-in-chief, Bishop, Member of Council, Legislative Councillor, Judge of any of Her Najosty's Cou1.t~ or of any Sudder Court, or of any Court of Judicature hereafter to be constituted in the said territories to or in which the powers of any of Her Majesty's Supreme Courts may be transferred or vested. ' VI. All such Courts and persons aforesaid shall take judicial notice of Judicial notice to be all divisions of time, of the geographical divisions of the taken of divisions of time, world, of the territories under the dominion of the British place, &c. Crown, of the commencement, continuation, and termination of hostilities between the British Crown and any other State, and also of the existence, title, and national flag of every Sovereign or state recognized by the British Crown. I n all the above cases, such Court or person may resort for its aid to appropriate books or documents of reference. VII. Any Government Gazette of any Countiy, Colony, or ~ e ~ e n d e n c ~ , .>* proof of Government[under the dominion of thb British Crown, may be proved ] Gazette. by the bare production thereof before any of the Courts or persons aforesaid. VIII. All Proclamations, Acts of State, whether Legislative or ExeProof of Proclamations, cutive, nominations, appointments, and "other official Acts of State, &c. communications of the Government appearing in any such Gazette, may be proved by the production of such Gaaette, and shall be Proclamations, kc., when pri'md `facie` proof of any fact of a public nature which to be prim2 facie proof of fact. they mere intended to notify. IX. Any j 1 g -i. ii !< `j$ a` .P I& `g` `t` ; 6 6. ACT No. I1 OF 1855. m IX. Any recital contained in any Act of the Governor-General of India in Council, constituted for the purpose of making Laws Recital in Act of a fact of a pnblic natnre to be and Regulations, hereafter to be passecl, of any fact of a : p~imd `facie` proof. public nature, shall be deemed, before all such Courts and persons, to be p~imcl `fcccie` evidence of the truth of the fact recited. e X. The Casette or Newspaper - containing any advertisement purporting Gazette, &c., containing[to be published by virtue of any public Statuta, Act, ] advertisement pl~~porting Regulation, or Ordinance, or of any Eule or Order of a to be published by authority, to be prim4 facie Court of Justice or of any Board or Officer of Revenue, evidence of such authority. may be received by any such Courts or persons as afore- said as prim8 facie evidence that such advertisement was published cluly under the author.ity from which it purports to proceed. XI. All Courts and persons aforesaid may, on matters of public History, Literature, Science, or Art, refer, for the purposes of Books, Maps, &c., to be evidence in lnattelg of[evidence? to such published Books, Maps, or Charts as ] public history, &c. such Courts or persons shall consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate. XII. Books printed or published under the authority of the Govern- f ment of a Toreign Country and purporting to contain the What Books, &c., shall be evidence of Foreign Statutes, Code, or other written Law of such Country, Law. and also printed and published Books of reports of decisions of the Courts of such country, and Books proved to be commonly admitted in such Courts as evidence of the Law of such Countl-y, shall be admissible before any such Courts or persons as aforesaid as evidence of the Law of such Foreign Country. XIII. All Maps made under the authority of Government or of any public municipal body, gnd not made for the purpose of Government or public Maps, when to be p,,imd any litigated question, shall `prim$ facie` be deemed to be facie proof. correct, and shall be admitted in evidence mithobt further proof. Persons incompetent to XIV. The following persons only shall be incompetestify. tent to testify. `1.` Children under seven years of age who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly. Children. 2. Persons e6 ACT No. I1 OF 1855.