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A.D. 1812.]
REGULATION III.
189
See Secs. i. to
iii. Act XXIV.
1837.
magistrate, and likewise before the of in cases in which
the charge may be made over for trial to comZ; and that vakeels
or agents shall not be permitted to interfere in the conduct of such
prosecutions, unless substantial reasons be shown (to be recorded, of
course, on the proceedings of the magistrate) why the prosecutor himself
should not attend to carry it on in person. It shall be the duty of
the Nizamut Adawlut and of the q/* ZWcmif to restrain any ill-
judged exercise of the discretion vested in the magistrates with respect
to this point.
IV. ZW.sZ Regulation VI. 1810, dehnes the duty required from the
zemindars and others, with respect to the resort of criminals within the
limits of the estates or farms held or managed by them.
NdcozzZ. With the view of affording to the magistrates more early and
punctual information of public offences committed within the limits of
their respective jurisdiction, all zemindars, talookdars, and other proprie-
tors of lands, whether malguzarry or lakheraj, all sudder farmers and
under-renters of land of every description, all dependent talookdars, all
naibs and other local agents, all native officers employed in the collection
of the revenue and rents of lands on the part of Government or of the
Court of Wards, are hereby declared especially accountable for the early
and punctual communication to the magistrates or police darogahs, of all
information which they may obtain respecting the commission of rob-
beries, and likewise regarding the offence of breaking into houses, tents,
or boats, or other places of habitation, perpetrated within the limits of the
estate or farm held or managed by them; and any landholder or other
description of persons above noticed, to whom such responsibility is
declared to attach, who may neglect to give the information hereby
required to the police darogah or to the magistrate, shall, on proof of such
neglect, after an inquiry similar to that directed by WZZZ. Z^qt/M-'
ZW. 1808,* be sentenced by the magistrate to pay a fine or to
suffer imprisonment not exceeding the limitation therein specified.
V. ZW$Z The superintendents of police are invested by the existing
Regulations with a concurrent jurisdiction with the magistrates of the
zillahs and cities included within the local limits of the authority of the
said superintendents respectively. It being necessary, however, to make
provision for the execution of sentences which may be passed by the
superintendents on offenders, in cases in which such sentences cannot
conveniently be carried into effect under their immediate directions, they
* The whole of Reg. IX. 1808, having been rescinded by Act IV. 1844, the section here
referred to is subjoined :—
XIII. If a magistrate shall have grounds to believe that any person, of the description of
those specified in the preceding section, shall have neglected to give due information to the
magistrate or the police darogah, of the resort of any proclaimed dacoit to any place within
the limits of the estate or farm held or managed by such person, the magistrate shall call upon
him to answer to the charge ; and if it shall appear upon a full and impartial inquiry, that
the person accused has been actually guilty of the neglect ascribed to him, the magistrate
shall sentence the offender to pay such a fine to Government, and to suffer imprisonment for
such a period of time as he may deem proportioned to the offence, not exceeding, however,
the limitation prescribed by Sec. xix. Reg. IX. 1807, viz., imprisonment for six months, and
a fine of rupees 200, commutable, if not paid, to imprisonment for a further period not
exceeding six months longer.
Rules respecting the
resortof criminalswith-
in the limits of estates.
Landholders, &c. held
responsible for giving
carry sentences passed
by the superintendents
of police into execution
in certain cases.
REGULATION III.
189
See Secs. i. to
iii. Act XXIV.
1837.
magistrate, and likewise before the of in cases in which
the charge may be made over for trial to comZ; and that vakeels
or agents shall not be permitted to interfere in the conduct of such
prosecutions, unless substantial reasons be shown (to be recorded, of
course, on the proceedings of the magistrate) why the prosecutor himself
should not attend to carry it on in person. It shall be the duty of
the Nizamut Adawlut and of the q/* ZWcmif to restrain any ill-
judged exercise of the discretion vested in the magistrates with respect
to this point.
IV. ZW.sZ Regulation VI. 1810, dehnes the duty required from the
zemindars and others, with respect to the resort of criminals within the
limits of the estates or farms held or managed by them.
NdcozzZ. With the view of affording to the magistrates more early and
punctual information of public offences committed within the limits of
their respective jurisdiction, all zemindars, talookdars, and other proprie-
tors of lands, whether malguzarry or lakheraj, all sudder farmers and
under-renters of land of every description, all dependent talookdars, all
naibs and other local agents, all native officers employed in the collection
of the revenue and rents of lands on the part of Government or of the
Court of Wards, are hereby declared especially accountable for the early
and punctual communication to the magistrates or police darogahs, of all
information which they may obtain respecting the commission of rob-
beries, and likewise regarding the offence of breaking into houses, tents,
or boats, or other places of habitation, perpetrated within the limits of the
estate or farm held or managed by them; and any landholder or other
description of persons above noticed, to whom such responsibility is
declared to attach, who may neglect to give the information hereby
required to the police darogah or to the magistrate, shall, on proof of such
neglect, after an inquiry similar to that directed by WZZZ. Z^qt/M-'
ZW. 1808,* be sentenced by the magistrate to pay a fine or to
suffer imprisonment not exceeding the limitation therein specified.
V. ZW$Z The superintendents of police are invested by the existing
Regulations with a concurrent jurisdiction with the magistrates of the
zillahs and cities included within the local limits of the authority of the
said superintendents respectively. It being necessary, however, to make
provision for the execution of sentences which may be passed by the
superintendents on offenders, in cases in which such sentences cannot
conveniently be carried into effect under their immediate directions, they
* The whole of Reg. IX. 1808, having been rescinded by Act IV. 1844, the section here
referred to is subjoined :—
XIII. If a magistrate shall have grounds to believe that any person, of the description of
those specified in the preceding section, shall have neglected to give due information to the
magistrate or the police darogah, of the resort of any proclaimed dacoit to any place within
the limits of the estate or farm held or managed by such person, the magistrate shall call upon
him to answer to the charge ; and if it shall appear upon a full and impartial inquiry, that
the person accused has been actually guilty of the neglect ascribed to him, the magistrate
shall sentence the offender to pay such a fine to Government, and to suffer imprisonment for
such a period of time as he may deem proportioned to the offence, not exceeding, however,
the limitation prescribed by Sec. xix. Reg. IX. 1807, viz., imprisonment for six months, and
a fine of rupees 200, commutable, if not paid, to imprisonment for a further period not
exceeding six months longer.
Rules respecting the
resortof criminalswith-
in the limits of estates.
Landholders, &c. held
responsible for giving
carry sentences passed
by the superintendents
of police into execution
in certain cases.