Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

BENGAL REGULATIONS AND ACTS.

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1822. III.
— VII.
1825. IX.
1828. IV.
1829. 1.
1,833. IX.
1848. XIII.
— XX.
1850. XVIII.
— XLIV.

1793. X.
— XXVI.
— L.
1795. LV.
1796. III.
— VII.
1822. VI.

1793. 1.
— VIII.
— XL
— XLIV.
1794.1V.
1797. XV.
1798.1.
1800.1.
- X.
1801.1.
1805. XVII.
1806. XVII.
1811. XI.
1812. V.
— XVIII.
1814. XIX.
1819. VIII,
1822. VII.
1825. IX.
— XL
1828.1V.
1833. IX.
1836. XX.
1837.1V.
1838. XI.
*1840. IV.
1846.1V.
1847. IX.
1848. XIII.
1850. XXIII.

1793. XIV.
— XVII.
1794. III.
1795. XXXV,
1799, VII.
1801. 1.
1812. V.
1817. XIX.

Powers of the Board of Revenue and rules of practice.
- of collectors revising settlements.
Extension of VII. 1822.
Powers of collectors under VII. 1822, defined.
Appointment,and powers of Commissioners of Revenue and Circuit.
1 Enlargement of certain provisions of VII. 1822 — Appointment of uncovenanted deputy
collectors.
Limitation of time for contesting collectors' awards under VII. 1822, &c.
Attendance of landholders before collectors.
Protection of Officers acting judicially.
Consolidation of Board of Customs, Salt, and Opium with Board of Revenue.
b. Op CoM?^ op bEarcfy.
Powers and duties of Court of Wards.
Minority to end at eighteenth year.
Court of Wards may admit females to manage estates.
Guardians under the Courts of Wards not required to give security in courts.
Limitation of the operation of the Court of Wards' Regulation.
Contumacy and profligacy not grounds of disqualification.
Discretionary power of farming estates and of non-interference in cases of minors.
2. SETTLEMENT OF THE REVENUE AND RlGHTS IN THE LAND.
The revenue settlement of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa declared permanent.
Rules for the decennial settlement of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa.
Succession to estates of intestate proprietors.
Limitation of term for grant of leases by proprietors.
Rules for the delivery of ryotty pottahs.
Definition of " Jumma."
Bye-bil-wufFa, or conditional sales of land.
Appointment of guardians to disqualified joint proprietors not under Court of Wards.
Modification of XI. 1793.
Separation of talooks from zemindaries.
Management of joint undivided estates.
Bye-bil-wufFa, or conditional sales of land.
Extension of the period for correcting errors in apportioning the jumma on division of estates.
Grant of leases by proprietors—Realization of revenue.
Limitation of time for granting leases.
Rules for the division of estates.
- regarding putnee talooks and leases.
Powers of collectors in making and revising settlements.
}* Extension of provisions of VII. 1822—New provisions on several subjects of revenue admi-
* nistration.
Rules respecting gains and losses of land by alluvion, and dereliction.
Powers of collector under VII. 1822, defined.
Amendment of VII. 1822, and IV. 1828.
Power of quashing butwaras or divisions of estates.
British subjects empowered to hold land.
Remuneration of ameens effecting divisions of estates.
Prevention of affrays and forcible dispossession.
Sales of land in execution of decrees.
Assessment of lands gained by alluvion in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa.
Suits to contest awards under VII. 1822.
Security of the land revenue in Calcutta.
3. RECOVERY OF ARREARS OF REVENUE AND RENT.
Recovery of arrears of revenue.
--rent.
Recovery of arrears of revenue and of public papers and accounts from public servants.
Amended rules for the recovery of arrears of rent.
Recoverv of arrears of rent and revenue.
Modification of VII. 1799, as respects arrears of revenue.
Recovery of revenue and rent. .
Summary process for recovery of arrears of rent.