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REGULATION XXI.
[A.D. 1795.
Notice, and
process to be issued by
the magistrate thereon.
shall be stated to have been resorted to by the Brahmin or Brahmins in
question), the magistrate is thereon to issue to such Brahmin or Brah-
mins a written notice, under his ofHcial seal, in the Persian language and See Act
character, and in the Hindostanee languageand Nageree character, which ^
is to be served on him or them by such of the relations, friends, or con-
nections of the said Brahmin or Brahmins as the magistrate may think Rt
and have an opportunity of employing for the purpose ; and in default of
such relations, friends, or connections of the said Brahmin or Brahmins,
the magistrate is to cause the notice to be served by a single peon of the
same religion ; and the tenour of it shall require the said Brahmin or
Brahmins to remove the koorh, and the women and people that may be
placed in it, or to desist from any preparation for wounding or killing the
women or children (according as either or both of these o Renees may be
charged in the information), as likewise either to discharge the balance of
rent or revenue that shall have been demanded from him or them, or to
appear, and entering security for such part of it as he or they may have
pleas against the payment of, to Rle his or their objections to the payment
of such part, in the City or Zillah Court, that the merits of the case may
be inquired into and decided, according to the principles by which other
disputed demands and accounts of revenue are, under Regulation VI.
1795, directed to be determined; and the said notice is also to contain a
positive and encouraging assurance to the Brahmin or Brahmins in ques-
tion, that on his or their complying with the exigence of it, by removing the
koorh and the persons therein, or by desisting from any preparation to
wound or slay the women and children, and either discharging the balance
of revenue in demand, or repairing in person, or deputing a vakeel, to the
City or Zillah Court, and entering security for the amount of it, proper
inquiry shall be made into the pleas that he or they may have to state
against the justice of the demand. If the issuing of the notice shall tail
to induce the said Brahmin or Brahmins to comply with the requisitions
of it, a written return to that eRect is to be made and attested by the
party or parties entrusted with the serving of it, and the magistrate is
immediately to issue a warrant, under his oRrcial seal and signature, for
the apprehension of such Brahmin or Brahmins, in which shall be speciRed
the misdemeanor, contumacy, and arrear, with which he or they stand
charged; and the warrant shall be executed by peons of the Mahomedan
religion, as directed in Section II.; and if the Brahmin or Brahmins shall
refuse to obey, or resist, or cause to be resisted, the peons deputed to
serve it, or escape after being taken by them into custody, or abscond, or
shut himself or themselves up in any house or building, or retire to any
place so that the warrant, cannot be served on him or them, the magistrate,
on information to this eRect, shall issue a precept to the collector, to cause
the nearest tehseeldar to attach the lands that such Brahmin or Brahmins
may possess in property or in mortgage, or in farm or lakheraj; and the
lands shall accordingly remain attached, and the proRts of them be
appropriated by Government, until the liquidation of the balance shall be
eRected either from the produce, or in consequence of the said Brahmin
or Brahmins making good the same from his or their other means ; and
also until the said Brahmin or Brahmins shall have been brought, or made
his or their appearance before the court, when he or they shall be tried
for being concerned, either as principals or accomplices, in setting up the
REGULATION XXI.
[A.D. 1795.
Notice, and
process to be issued by
the magistrate thereon.
shall be stated to have been resorted to by the Brahmin or Brahmins in
question), the magistrate is thereon to issue to such Brahmin or Brah-
mins a written notice, under his ofHcial seal, in the Persian language and See Act
character, and in the Hindostanee languageand Nageree character, which ^
is to be served on him or them by such of the relations, friends, or con-
nections of the said Brahmin or Brahmins as the magistrate may think Rt
and have an opportunity of employing for the purpose ; and in default of
such relations, friends, or connections of the said Brahmin or Brahmins,
the magistrate is to cause the notice to be served by a single peon of the
same religion ; and the tenour of it shall require the said Brahmin or
Brahmins to remove the koorh, and the women and people that may be
placed in it, or to desist from any preparation for wounding or killing the
women or children (according as either or both of these o Renees may be
charged in the information), as likewise either to discharge the balance of
rent or revenue that shall have been demanded from him or them, or to
appear, and entering security for such part of it as he or they may have
pleas against the payment of, to Rle his or their objections to the payment
of such part, in the City or Zillah Court, that the merits of the case may
be inquired into and decided, according to the principles by which other
disputed demands and accounts of revenue are, under Regulation VI.
1795, directed to be determined; and the said notice is also to contain a
positive and encouraging assurance to the Brahmin or Brahmins in ques-
tion, that on his or their complying with the exigence of it, by removing the
koorh and the persons therein, or by desisting from any preparation to
wound or slay the women and children, and either discharging the balance
of revenue in demand, or repairing in person, or deputing a vakeel, to the
City or Zillah Court, and entering security for the amount of it, proper
inquiry shall be made into the pleas that he or they may have to state
against the justice of the demand. If the issuing of the notice shall tail
to induce the said Brahmin or Brahmins to comply with the requisitions
of it, a written return to that eRect is to be made and attested by the
party or parties entrusted with the serving of it, and the magistrate is
immediately to issue a warrant, under his oRrcial seal and signature, for
the apprehension of such Brahmin or Brahmins, in which shall be speciRed
the misdemeanor, contumacy, and arrear, with which he or they stand
charged; and the warrant shall be executed by peons of the Mahomedan
religion, as directed in Section II.; and if the Brahmin or Brahmins shall
refuse to obey, or resist, or cause to be resisted, the peons deputed to
serve it, or escape after being taken by them into custody, or abscond, or
shut himself or themselves up in any house or building, or retire to any
place so that the warrant, cannot be served on him or them, the magistrate,
on information to this eRect, shall issue a precept to the collector, to cause
the nearest tehseeldar to attach the lands that such Brahmin or Brahmins
may possess in property or in mortgage, or in farm or lakheraj; and the
lands shall accordingly remain attached, and the proRts of them be
appropriated by Government, until the liquidation of the balance shall be
eRected either from the produce, or in consequence of the said Brahmin
or Brahmins making good the same from his or their other means ; and
also until the said Brahmin or Brahmins shall have been brought, or made
his or their appearance before the court, when he or they shall be tried
for being concerned, either as principals or accomplices, in setting up the