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 V.

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I. FoR the purpose of insuring a faithful, diligent, and able discharge of
the important duties assigned to the native officers who are employed on
the part of Government, in the several public ofhces of the judicial,
revenue, and commercial departments, and in the departments of salt,
opium, and customs,.it is essential that those officers (with an exception of
the naib nazirs, mirdahs, peons, and burkundazes, and similar descriptions
of public servants who are nominated and removed upon sufficient cause
by their immediate superiors, under the responsibility of the latter for
their good conduct) should be secured in the possession of their respective
offices, whilst they discharge the duties assigned to them with diligence,
ability, and integrity, that the persons appointed to fill all vacancies in
such offices should be selected with due regard to their characters and
qualifications, and that they should not be liable to removal from their
appointments without proof of their incapacity or misconduct. These
objects have been in part provided for by the rules in force concerning
the appointment and removal of the law officers of the courts of justice,
the cauzy-ul-cozaat and cauzies of the towns, cities, and pergunnahs, and
the native officers appointed to keep the records of the Courts of Judi-
* By Section iii. Reg. VIII. 1809, and Reg. XI. 1826, the appointment and removal of
law officers of the Sudder Court rests with the Governor-General in Council. The several
boards and courts appoint and remove their ministerial ofRcers.
The appointment of law officers to the Courts of Appeal and Circuit was abolished by
Sec. vii. Reg. III. 1829, and the courts themselves have since ceased to exist.
The appointment of the law officers of the Zillah Courts is vested in the Governor-General
in Council by Sec. iv. Reg. XI. 1826. Their removal rests with the Sudder Court under
the provisions of Reg. VIII. 1809.
The appointment of darogahs and inferior officers of police is vested in the magistrates,
subject to the approval of the superintendent of police, by Sec. iv. Reg. XXIV. 1837.
The appointment and removal of jailers and subordinate officers of jails was vested in the
magistrates by Sec. vii. Reg. XVII. 1816, subject to the control of the superintendent of
police, according to Sec. iv. Act XXIV. 1837 ; but Act XVIII. 1844, vests the whole coMfro/
awe? of jails, including the " establishments thereunto belonging/' exclusively
in the magistrates, subject to the orders of the Government. This does not
include their
The appointment and removal of cauzies of towns &c. vest in the Sudder Court, under
Sec. iv. Reg. VIII. 1809. *
It is provided by Sec. iv. Reg. VIII. 1825, that one of the qualifications on which judicial
officers shall report in recommending native officers for approval by the Superior Courts,
shall be their freedom from engagement in trusts or private concerns with their superiors.
By Sec. xii. Act XXV. 1837, principal sudder ameens, sudder ameens, and moonsiffs,
are empowered to appoint their own ministerial ofRcers, subject to the general control of the
Zillah Courts and Sudder Dewanny Adawlut.
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