Resolution IV. The Government of (V) This Conference urges that India shall have undivided legislation of an exceptional administrative authority on character having the effect of matters directly concerning curtailing ordinary rights such peace, tranquillity and defence as the freedom of the press and of the country subject to the public meetings and open following: judicial trial, should not be carried through the Council of That the Statute to be passed by State alone, or in spite of the Parliament should include the declared opinion of the Declaration of the Rights of the Legislative Assembly of India, people of India as British except in a time of war or citizens: internal disturbance, without the approval of the Select (a) That all Indian subjects of Committee of the House of his Majesty and all the subjects Commons proposed to be set up naturalized or resident in India under the Scheme unless such are equal before the law, and legislation is of a temporary there shall be no penal nor character and limited to a administrative law in force in period of one year only, the the country whether substantive said legislation being in any or procedural of a case made renewable without such discriminative nature. approval in the last resort. (b) That no Indian subject of his Majesty shall be liable to 10 suffer in liberty, life, property or of association, free (c) All racial inequalities in speech or in respect of writing, respect of trial by jury, the except under sentence by an rules made under the Arms Act, ordinary Court of Justice, and etc. should be removed and the as a result of a lawful and open latter should be so amended as trial. to provide for the possession and carrying of arms by Indians (c) That every Indian subject under liberal conditions. shall be entitled to bear arms, subject to the purchase of a (d) A complete separation of licence, as in Great Britain, judicial and executive functions and that the right shall not be of all district officers should taken away save by a sentence of be made, at least in all major an ordinary Court of Justice. provinces, at once, and the judiciary placed under the (d) That the Press shall be jurisdiction of the highest free, and that no licence nor court of the province. security shall be demanded on the registration of a press or a newspaper.