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 VI.

[A.D. 1797.

Reg. VI. 1797.

Reg. XXIII. 1793,
abolished.

A.D. 1797. REGULATION VI.
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I. BY Regulation XXIII. 1793, it was enacted that the annual expense
of the police establishments in the several zillahs and cities in the provinces
of Bengal, Beliar, and Orissa, should be defrayed, under certain rules speci-
fied in the said Regulation, by the native merchants, traders, and shop-
keepers, who either resided or had houses of trade, golahs, or shops, in
any town or village, or in any gunge, bazar, or haut, or elsewhere. Diffi-
culties, however, have been experienced in determining what persons were
liable to be charged with the tax under the said Regulation, and also in
fixing the amount to be assessed on the towns, bazars, and other places
respectively, and the proportion to be paid by the several contributors
residing or having commercia! concerns therein ; and frauds and exactions
have in consequence been committed by the assessors and collectors, to the
vexation of the contributors as well as to the diminution of the produce of
the tax. The Vice-President in Council has therefore resolved to abolish
this tax; and with a view further to discourage the preferring of litigious
complaints, and the filing of superfluous exhibits and the summoning
unnecessary witnesses on the trial of suits, and also to provide for the
deficiency which will be occasioned in the public revenue by the abolition
of the police tax, as well as to add eventually to the public resources,
without burthening individuals, he has resolved to substitute new fees on
the institution and trial of suits, in the room of the fees established by
Regulation XXXVIII. 1795, and likewise to establish stamp duties on
certain original deeds or papers, and all copies of deeds or papers \yhich
may be prepared and attested by the cauzies or their officers, or the muf-
ties, and on all pleadings in the Courts of Civil Judicature, and on all
copies of papers furnished by the said courts, and the board and the col-
lectors of the revenue, and on all rowannahs issued from the department
of the customs, and on certain written obligations for the payment of
money, and on the sunnuds of appointment granted to cauzies and
authorized pleaders in the Courts of Judicature, with a per-centage on
the fees paid to the latter. The following ruies have been accordingly
enacted, and are to be considered in force in the four provinces from the
date of their receipt in the several City and Zillah Courts.
II. Xzz*G. Regulation XXIII. 1793, is hereby declared to be rescinded,
from the date on which this Regulation may be received in the Zillah and