Annotation:India Bill (The)
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INDIA BILL, THE. English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title refers to the East Inida Bill of 1784, the first major piece of legislation passed in Parliament under the leader ship of William Pitt (the Younger) [1], newly appointed Prime Minister while still aged in his mid-20's. Wikipedia explians:
His first major piece of legislation as Prime Minister was the India Act 1784, which re-organised the British East India Company and kept a watch over corruption. The India Act created a new Board of Control to oversee the affairs of the East India Company. It differed from Fox's failed India Bill 1783 and specified that the Board would be appointed by the King.[27] Pitt was appointed, along with Lord Sydney who was appointed President.[27] The Act centralised British rule in India by reducing the power of the Governors of Bombay and Madras and by increasing that of the Governor-General, Charles Cornwallis. Further augmentations and clarifications of the Governor-General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney, and presumably as a result of the Company's setting up of Penang with their own Superintended (Governor), Captain Francis Light, in 1786.
