756 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
by the Constitution to effect laws on any of the matters mentioned in the entries to the Seventh Schedule is the correct procedure, and Government has followed the most correct procedure laid down by the Constitution.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Even if it be an adjustment of boundaries has not the prescribed procedure been followed ?
The Deputy Minister of External Affairs (Dr. Keskar): It has been done.
Dr. Ambedkar: If that is so, then that point also does not stand.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The procedure has also been followed as laid down in Article 3. I therefore understand Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee to say that he does not concede the right of cession under entry 14 and that is why he says that a constitutional amendment is necessary.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad (West Bangal) : rose —
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I do not propose allowing hon. Members who have already spoken when this matter was raised as a point of order yesterday to speak again.
- The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): I have already made a motion that this Bill be taken into consideration. All that remains for me is to say a few words in order to explain the nature of this particular measure, and the necessity for bringing it forward. The Notary Public is an official who discharges certain functions relating to certain documents which arise out of what are called ‘mercantile’ transactions. The position with regard to the Notary Public in India is that under the Negotiable Instruments Act the Government of India has got the power to appoint Notaries public in order to deal with the documents which are negotiable instruments under that Act. But there are also other mercantile transactions which create certain other mercantile documents but which are outside the purview of the Notaries Public appointed under the Indian Negotiable Instruments Act. Those Notaries
*P. D. Vol. XIV, 17 August 1951, pp. 832-35.