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. 1803.]

REGULATION XXVII.

655

XXVI. WA*IY. Z?%fMAAzo% kY. 1795,' " five
thousand ,szcc% rupees " ybr " one thousand 3?'cc% rupees," tizzZ ^A<? yb^owzyy
ybz* ^6 po?Zzo% of ^Ao .S'oeA'ozz, AdymTzmy]
It shall be at the option of the Governor-General in Council, either to
order fhe decree to be executed, or to commute the forfeiture of the lease
for such fine as, upon a consideration of the situation and circumstances in
life of the defaulter, he may think adequate to the offence for which the
decree may be passed ; or if the defaulter shall not be desirous of being
continued in his farm, to fine him as above prescribed, and compel him to
retain the farm during the remainder of the lease, and to hold him and his
surety responsible for the discharge of their engagements until the term of
them shall expire. If a fine shall be imposed on the defaulter, the court
which shall have transmitted the final decree and proceedings to the
Governor-General in Council, upon receiving notice of the fine, is to levy
the amount of it by the same process by which they are directed to enforce
decrees of the court, and to pay the amount to the collector. The process
which the collector may institute in the Adawlut of any zillah, under this
section, as well as any appeal that may be preferred from the decision of
the Zillah Court <^Ao Z^opmcAA (7oM?Z of Ryipotzf yho?% 2*Ao YcAzozz
of to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, in which the collector may
be appellant or respondent, are to be defended and carried on at the public
expense, and by the vakeel of Government, whom the collector is to furnish
with the necessary instructions.
XXVII. ^ NooA'ozz AbXIYZ. YqyMAzAoTz U/. 1795.]

XXVIII. [&Z77M a.y tSkcA'ozz A A UZ/Z. ZfkgMAA?'o% IY. 1795,
" five thousand .szcca rupees " yb?' " one thousand .szcc% rupees," ^Ao
yb&wAy/ yw 2*Ao AzAto' ywAo% of ^Ao .yodzoyy, &yzzzzzmy]
It shall be at the option of the Governor-General in Council, either to
order the decree to be executed or to alleviate the fine. The court which
shall have transmitted the final decree and proceedings to the Governor-
General in Council, upon receiving notice of the fine that may be imposed
upon the defaulter, is to levy the amount of it, by the same process by which
it is directed to enforce decrees of the court, and to pay the amount to the
collector. The process which the collector may institute in the Court of
Adawlut of the zillah under this section, as well as the appeals that may
be preferred from the Zillah Court A? ^Ao Y?'OvzzzczoZ Uozzz^ of Rppoo/,
yfo?7^ ^Ao YcMZozz of com^ to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, in which
the collector may be appellant or respondent, are to be defended or carried
on by the vakeel of Government, and at the public expense.

XXIX. [Time when defaulters' lands may be ordered for sale—how
defaulter may stay the sale.]—Yo.^cAz&Z by 6'Anz.S'O ZY'.s'f NocA'ozz ZZ. Ztkyzz-
AAzozz AY 1822.

See note at
the beginning.

XXX. AzrY When a collector shall proceed to confine the surety of
any proprietor or farmer of land in the cases authorized in this Regula-
tion, he is immediately to cause such portion of the defaulter's lands as he
may estimate to be sufficient to make good the amount of the demand, in
the event of their being sold, to be attached under the rules prescribed in

If the lease shall be
adjudged annulled, the
the annulling of the
lease for a line.

If the decree shall be
commuted for a line,
how it is to be levied.

tor, and at the public
expense.

Option reserved to
the Governor - General
line.
If the line shall be
section to be conducted
by the vakeel of Go-
vernment on the part of
carried on at the public
expense.

Collector to attach
lands of sureties whom
he may proceed to
coniine, suhicient to
answer the demand
^[W. 1795, q/