The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1947
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 10th November 1947
No. F. 75/4/47-Public(B).—On the forenoon of this day, intimation having been received that His Excellency Rear Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.O., G.M.S.I., G.M.J.E., G.C.V.O., K C.B., D.S.O., had left India, the Commission under His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual appointing His Excellency Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalaehari to be Acting Governor-General of the Dominion of India was read by the Secretory to the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs at the Government House, New Delhi, in the presence of the Chief Justice of India and the Members of the Cabinet.
The oath of Allegiance and the oaths for the due execution of the office of the Acting Governor-General of the Dominion of India were administered by the Chief Justice of India.
PROCLAMATION
New Delhi, the 10th November 1947
No. F. 75/4/47-Public(B).—Whereas His Excellency Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari has been appointed by His Majesty to be his Acting Governor- General of the Dominion of India and has assumed the said office, the said appointment is hereby notified.
By order of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of India.
RESOLUTION
New Delhi, the 10th November 1947
1U38 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA. EXTRAORDINARY, OCT. 10, 1947 OHDEK:—OHDKUKD ihut the Proclamation be seal fi_u uilurinuiion Lo the Principal Military Stations.UHDEUED that u eopy of the Proclamation mid tuples of the foij"guniy orders bu sent tor mloruiatiuu to tho Ministries of External Alfairn and Commonwealth lielation; Finance; States; Iniormation and Broadcasting; Defence; Food; Agriculture; Law; Coiameree; Railways; CommunicutnonB; Health; Education; Works, Mines and Power; Relief and Rehabilitation; Labour; Industry and tiupply; Ministry without Portfolio; Financial Adviser, Military Finance; Private [Secretary to the Governor Generul; Military Beoretury to the Governor General; the Registrar, Federal Court; the Ministry of Finance (iStates and External Affairs); Cabinet Secretariat; Constituent Assembly; whence such orders as may be necessary will be issued forthwith.
ORDEHED that the information of the accession of His Excellency Shn Chakravarti Eajdgopalachari to the office of tho Acting Governor General of the Dominion of India be sent to the Provincial Governments and Chief Commis- sioners rioted below: —
The Governments of West Bengal; Assam; the United Provinces; Bihar; the Central Provinces and lierar; Madrua; Bombay; Urisna; and East Punjab; tho Chief Commissioners of Delhi: Ajmer Mervvnra; Coorg; Panth Piploda and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
B. N. BANERJEE,
Secretary to the Government of India.