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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Reg. XIV. 179?.

470 REGULATION XIV. [A.D. 1797.
lations that have been or may be passed by the Governor-General in
Council: So help me God/'
III. The assistants to the city and zillah magistrates who may have
taken and subscribed the foregoing oath are authorized to exercise the
judicial powers vested in the magistrates by Regulation IX. 1793, or by
any other Regulations printed and published in the manner directed in
Regulation XLI. 1793, as far as may be necessary to enable them to per-
form the duties committed to them respectively by the magistrates with
whom they are stationed, under the provision to that effect in Section II.
of this Regulation.
IV. In all instances wherein the assistants to the zillah and city magis-
trates may exercise any judicial powers under this Regulation, they are to
be guided in every respect by Regulation IX. 1793, and such other Regu-
lations as have been or may be hereafter enacted for the guidance of the
magistrates, as far as the same may be applicable to the duties committed
to them respectively.

A.D. 1797. REGULATION XIV.
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1. WHEREAS several persons convicted of crimes and misdemeanors
have been sentenced by the late Naib Nazim, the late Criminal Courts in the
province of Benares, and the former and present Courts of Circuit within
the provinces of Bengal, Behar, Orissa, and Benares, to the payment of
deyut, to restore stolen property, or the value of it, to pecuniary compen-
sation and damages to their prosecutors, and tines to Government, and to
remain in confinement until the completion of such sentences ; and in many
of these cases, the sentences, from the inability of the prisoners to comply
with the terms of them, must, if left to take their course, unavoidably ope-
rate as sentences of imprisonment for life, or for a period greatly out of pro-
portion to the offences committed, and much beyond the probable intention
of the courts by which they were passed, and no mode for the relief of
prisoners in this predicament is provided by the Regulations now in force ;
and whereas it has been judged expedient to vest the Court of Nizamut
Adawlut with powers to grant relief to the said prisoners, and further to
prevent the recurrence of similar sentences, and also to mark more
obviously and clearly the distinction between the Courts of Civil and
Criminal Jurisdiction, the following provisions have been enacted, to be in