Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: 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)

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REGULATION X.

[A.D. 1793.



liAed.
Rules for ascertain-
ing the ground of dis-
qualification, and for
enabling certain dis-
qualified proprietors to
recover their estates
when the ground of

been committed, as well as to the frequent instances of minors being
brought up in ignorance and dissipation by the persons entrusted with the
care and education of them, with a view to engross the management of
their affairs when they might come of age, determined, on the 20th August,
1790, to constitute the Board of Revenue a Court of Wards, with powers to
superintend the conduct, and inspect the accounts of the managers of
estates of persons disqualified for the management of their own lands, by
the rules prescribed for the decennial settlement, and with instructions to
see that minors received an education suitable to their rank and circum-
stances in life, and such as might qualify them for the future management
of their own concerns. For the guidance of the Board of Revenue in their
capacity of a Court of Wards, as well as of the officers acting under them
in this capacity, certain rules were enacted on the 15th July, 1791. Those
rules, with the subsequent amendments and further modifications, are now
re-enacted.
II. The superintendence of the Court of Wards extends to the persons
and estates of all proprietors disqualified, under the rules prescribed for the
decennial settlement, for the management of their own lands ; viz. all
proprietors of entire estates paying revenue immediately to Government,'
who are, or may be, females not deemed by the Governor-General in
Council competent to the management of their own estates ; minors, idiots, J
lunatics, or others, rendered incapable of managing their estates by natural
defects or infirmities of whatever nature ; [%.$ o/*
zcAo ere or 7?zez/ okewzoe' o?z eccomzzi q/'
or 7?o^orzoM.y pro/??!qec?/ of eAerecifer]. To prevent misconstruction, it is
declared that, by the terms " all proprietors of entire estates paying revenue
immediately to Government/' are meant, every such disqualified person who
may be the sole proprietor of an estate, and any two or more persons,
being proprietors of the whole of an estate, both or all of whom may be so
disqualified.
III. The superintendence of this court is not to extend to proprietors
of estates not paying revenue immediately to Government, nor to joint
proprietors of estates paying revenue immediately to Government, both or
all of whom may not be of the descriptions specified in Section II. The dis-
qualifications in the rules prescribed for the decennial settlement do not
include the former; and the latter are required thereby to elect a joint
manager, in the choice of whom those who are themselves unable to vote
are allowed a voice through their guardians. To such proprietors,
managers, and guardians, this Regulation is in no respect to be held
applicable.
IV. The collectors of the revenue are to ascertain and report jto the
Board of Revenue, both now and hereafter, what proprietors in their re-
spective zillahs may come within the descriptions of disqualified landholders
specified in Section II. ; and the following rules are prescribed for
ascertaining the existence of the stated ground of disqualification in the
first instance, and also for enabling proprietors of certain descriptions, who
may have been declared disqualified, to recover the management of their
estates when the ground of their disqualification may be removed.

I Modified by
Reg.

VH. 1796.^'

Reg.III.1796.