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REGULATION III.
Setting Are to any
house, viHage, or town,
How Raujekoomars
are to be tried and pun-
ished for leaving or
causing their female
infants to perish for
want of nourishment.
[-VWZ. 1795,
736
[A.D. 1804.
M/7077 YU. YA. 1801 ;-YY.
YA. 1829.
VI. [Responsibility of tehseeldars as officers of police.]—
YYY. AYU. 1807.]
VII. In addition to the cases specified in Section VII. Regulation VI.
1803, it is hereby declared, that the offence of setting fire to any house,
village, or town, is not bailable.
VIII. [Rewards in cases of dacoity.]—<5?/ Y7Y.
Y^?Y%^'o7a AUY. 1816.
IX. X. [Proceedings of charges of sitting dhurna.]—<5?/ Noc-
U072 YY. YAt/iYtzfYnz UYY. 1820.
XI. Immediately on the receipt of this Regulation, the several magis-
trates shall issue a proclamation throughout their respective jurisdictions,
prohibiting the inhuman practice, hitherto prevalent among the tribe of
Raujekoomars, of causing their female infants to be starved to death;
and declaring, that if any Raujekoomar, after the publication of the pro-
clamation, shall designedly prove the cause of the death of his female
child, by prohibiting its receiving nourishment or in any other manner,
such Raujekoomar will be liable to be tried in the manner directed bv
Regulations VII. and VIII. 1803, with respect to other cases of murder.
It is now accordingly ordained, that from the publication of the proclama-
tion above directed, if any Raujekoomar shall designedly prove the cause
of the death of his female child, by prohibiting its receiving nourishment
or in any other manner, the magistrate, on receiving information thereof
upon or such other information or proof as he shall deem sufficient
to render the charge highly probable, shall cause such Raujekoomar to be
apprehended in the manner prescribed, and make the inquiry ordered in
Section V. Regulation VI. 1803 ; when, if it shall appear to the magis-
trate that the crime has been actually committed, and that there are
grounds for suspecting the prisoner to have been concerned in the perpe-
tration of it, the magistrate shall cause him to be committed to prison to
be tried before the(7oM7^ q/*U77TM^, and shall at the same time take all
the other precautions required in the section and Regulation above quqted,
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 Regulations VII. and VIII. 1803, with respect to
other cases of murder.
Setting Are to any
house, viHage, or town,
How Raujekoomars
are to be tried and pun-
ished for leaving or
causing their female
infants to perish for
want of nourishment.
[-VWZ. 1795,
736
[A.D. 1804.
M/7077 YU. YA. 1801 ;-YY.
YA. 1829.
VI. [Responsibility of tehseeldars as officers of police.]—
YYY. AYU. 1807.]
VII. In addition to the cases specified in Section VII. Regulation VI.
1803, it is hereby declared, that the offence of setting fire to any house,
village, or town, is not bailable.
VIII. [Rewards in cases of dacoity.]—<5?/ Y7Y.
Y^?Y%^'o7a AUY. 1816.
IX. X. [Proceedings of charges of sitting dhurna.]—<5?/ Noc-
U072 YY. YAt/iYtzfYnz UYY. 1820.
XI. Immediately on the receipt of this Regulation, the several magis-
trates shall issue a proclamation throughout their respective jurisdictions,
prohibiting the inhuman practice, hitherto prevalent among the tribe of
Raujekoomars, of causing their female infants to be starved to death;
and declaring, that if any Raujekoomar, after the publication of the pro-
clamation, shall designedly prove the cause of the death of his female
child, by prohibiting its receiving nourishment or in any other manner,
such Raujekoomar will be liable to be tried in the manner directed bv
Regulations VII. and VIII. 1803, with respect to other cases of murder.
It is now accordingly ordained, that from the publication of the proclama-
tion above directed, if any Raujekoomar shall designedly prove the cause
of the death of his female child, by prohibiting its receiving nourishment
or in any other manner, the magistrate, on receiving information thereof
upon or such other information or proof as he shall deem sufficient
to render the charge highly probable, shall cause such Raujekoomar to be
apprehended in the manner prescribed, and make the inquiry ordered in
Section V. Regulation VI. 1803 ; when, if it shall appear to the magis-
trate that the crime has been actually committed, and that there are
grounds for suspecting the prisoner to have been concerned in the perpe-
tration of it, the magistrate shall cause him to be committed to prison to
be tried before the(7oM7^ q/*U77TM^, and shall at the same time take all
the other precautions required in the section and Regulation above quqted,
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 Regulations VII. and VIII. 1803, with respect to
other cases of murder.