§ MR. LAIDLAW (Renfrewshire, E.)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India if Shamerendra Chandra Deb Barman appealed to the Law Courts in India against his being excluded from the office of Jubraj when his brother became Rajah of Hill Tipperah; and, if so, did the Court confirm or reject his claim.
§ MR. BUCHANANA suit was instituted in the British Courts in 1904 by the person named in the Question for the declaration of his title to succeed, on the death of the present Rajah, to certain estates in British India which form part of the hereditary property of the Rajahs of Hill Tipperah. The case, I understand, was dismissed.