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)

A.D. 1795.]

REGULATION XXII.

349

Superseded as
regards refer-
ence to the Ni-
zamut Adawlut
for mitigation
of punishment
by Sec. ii. Reg.
XIV. 1810.

mitigation of sentences and orders passed by the qf C27T22M under
the said section, it shail be a ruie, that whenever the Governor-General in
Council shali, in consequence, deem it proper to limit the banishment
either to the party or parties committing the murder, or to a certain
number only of his or their family or families, no confiscation or forfeiture
of the landed property shall in such instances take place, but the same
shall be entirely left in the possession, and as the property, of those
^members of the family who shall be exempted from banishment.
XI. XII. [Punishment for dhurna.]—XecMo72 77. fMf22M-
U77 1820.
XIII. In the month of December, 1789, the tribe of Raujekoomars
having bound themselves to discontinue the practice of causing their
female infants to be starved to death, it is now accordingly ordained, that
from the establishment and opening of the City and Zillah Courts, and of
the qf GMoMM in Benares, if any Raujekoomar shall designedly prove
the cause of the death of his female child, by prohibiting its receiving
nourishment, as set forth in the preamble to this Regulation, or in any
other manner, the magistrate, on receiving information thereof upon «%M,
or such other information or proof as he shall deem sufficient to render
the charge highly probable, shall cause such Raujekoomar to be appre-
hended in the manner prescribed, and make the inquiry ordered in Sec-
tion V. Regulation IX. 1793; when, if it shall appear to the magistrate
that the crime has been actually committed, and that there are grounds
for suspecting the prisoner to have been concerned in the perpetration of
it, the magistrate shall cause him to be committed to prison to be tried
before the qf C27T22M, and shall at the same time take all the other
precautions required in the section and Regulation last quoted, relative to
securing the attendance of the original complainant or informant, and of
the witnesses; and the prisoner shall be tried accordingly, in the manner
directed in Regulation IX. 1793, and Regulation XVI. 1795, with
respect to other cases of murder.

A.D. 1795. REGULATION XXII.*
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1. PREVIOUS to the cession of Benares to the Company and until the
year 1781, the administration of justice in the several pergunnahs and
* The provisions of this multifarious Regulation, important as a record of previous legis-

How Raujekoomars
are to be tried for leav-
ing or causing their fe-
male infants to perish
for want of nourish-
ment.

Reg. XXII. 1795.