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REGULATION XIII.
[A.D. 1816.
Ryots may either en-
ter into engagements to
cultivate thepoppy on
accountof Government,
or decline cultivating it
altogether.
agents are to take from
the cultivators of the
poppy-
$
Officers in the em-
ploy of the agents or
gratuity.
Penalties on convic-
tion.
Weights and scales
for weighing the opium
to be sealed by the ma-
gistrate of the district.
be fixed up in their court-rooms and cutcherries; and the price settled
for each pergunnah shall also be published by the agent in the pergunnah
to which -it relates.
X. It is left to the option of every person to enter - into engagements
for the cultivation of the poppy on account of Government at such
prices as may be settled for the produce, or to decline the cultivation of
it altogether.
XI. The agent, or a person deputed by him, at the season of sowing
the poppy, is to take an engagement from the cultivator specifying the num-
ber of begahs agreed to be cultivated, with the amount of the advance
received by him, and the cultivator shall be bound to cultivate that number
of begahs, or be liable to a penalty of three times the amount advanced
on each begah, and proportionably for any part of the begah not so culti-
vated. When the poppy shall be full grown, the agent is to depute a
person, who shall proceed with the cultivator into the held, and with the
assistance of two or three other creditable cultivators, form an estimate of
what such held is likely to produce; whereupon the ryot or cultivator is
to enter into an engagement to deliver so much, and should the held
produce more, to deliver that also pro rata. The agent shall, as soon as
practicable after the sowhng season, transmit a separate list of the culti-
vators, from whom he may take engagements in each pergunnah, to the
magistrate, and to the collector or other officer in charge of the abkarry
mehal of the zillah.
XII. Officers of every description in the employment of the agents or
their deputies are prohibited from taking or receiving any fee, gratuity,
perquisite, or allowance, either in money or effects, under any pretence
whatever, from any ryots or other person employed or concerned in the
provision of opium; and if any such description of person, subject to the
authority of the agent, shall be convicted, before the zillah or city magis-
trate within whose jurisdiction the offence may have been committed, of
disobedience to this prohibition, he shall, besides being dismissed from his
office by the officer or authority to which he may be subject, be further
liable to imprisonment for any term, not exceeding six months, w*hicb the
court may judge proper, together with such fine, not exceeding 200
rupees, as may appear adequate to his offence, commutable, if not paid, to
a further period of imprisonment not exceeding six months; and upon
the circumstances being represented by the Board of to the Gover-
nor-General in Council, he will, if it shall appear proper, declare the
offender incapable of serving Government in any capacity thenceforward,
and will cause the same to be published.
XIII. The weights and scales made use of in the koties or warehouses
in the different pergunnahs for weighing the opium received from the
ryots are to be sealed with the seal of the magistrate of the district, and
examined annually by him, or by such person as he shall think proper to
appoint for that purpose, during the month of January. The agents or
their officers making use of weights or scales not so sealed, or knowingly
using uneven scales or incorrect weights though sealed, will be liable to
REGULATION XIII.
[A.D. 1816.
Ryots may either en-
ter into engagements to
cultivate thepoppy on
accountof Government,
or decline cultivating it
altogether.
agents are to take from
the cultivators of the
poppy-
$
Officers in the em-
ploy of the agents or
gratuity.
Penalties on convic-
tion.
Weights and scales
for weighing the opium
to be sealed by the ma-
gistrate of the district.
be fixed up in their court-rooms and cutcherries; and the price settled
for each pergunnah shall also be published by the agent in the pergunnah
to which -it relates.
X. It is left to the option of every person to enter - into engagements
for the cultivation of the poppy on account of Government at such
prices as may be settled for the produce, or to decline the cultivation of
it altogether.
XI. The agent, or a person deputed by him, at the season of sowing
the poppy, is to take an engagement from the cultivator specifying the num-
ber of begahs agreed to be cultivated, with the amount of the advance
received by him, and the cultivator shall be bound to cultivate that number
of begahs, or be liable to a penalty of three times the amount advanced
on each begah, and proportionably for any part of the begah not so culti-
vated. When the poppy shall be full grown, the agent is to depute a
person, who shall proceed with the cultivator into the held, and with the
assistance of two or three other creditable cultivators, form an estimate of
what such held is likely to produce; whereupon the ryot or cultivator is
to enter into an engagement to deliver so much, and should the held
produce more, to deliver that also pro rata. The agent shall, as soon as
practicable after the sowhng season, transmit a separate list of the culti-
vators, from whom he may take engagements in each pergunnah, to the
magistrate, and to the collector or other officer in charge of the abkarry
mehal of the zillah.
XII. Officers of every description in the employment of the agents or
their deputies are prohibited from taking or receiving any fee, gratuity,
perquisite, or allowance, either in money or effects, under any pretence
whatever, from any ryots or other person employed or concerned in the
provision of opium; and if any such description of person, subject to the
authority of the agent, shall be convicted, before the zillah or city magis-
trate within whose jurisdiction the offence may have been committed, of
disobedience to this prohibition, he shall, besides being dismissed from his
office by the officer or authority to which he may be subject, be further
liable to imprisonment for any term, not exceeding six months, w*hicb the
court may judge proper, together with such fine, not exceeding 200
rupees, as may appear adequate to his offence, commutable, if not paid, to
a further period of imprisonment not exceeding six months; and upon
the circumstances being represented by the Board of to the Gover-
nor-General in Council, he will, if it shall appear proper, declare the
offender incapable of serving Government in any capacity thenceforward,
and will cause the same to be published.
XIII. The weights and scales made use of in the koties or warehouses
in the different pergunnahs for weighing the opium received from the
ryots are to be sealed with the seal of the magistrate of the district, and
examined annually by him, or by such person as he shall think proper to
appoint for that purpose, during the month of January. The agents or
their officers making use of weights or scales not so sealed, or knowingly
using uneven scales or incorrect weights though sealed, will be liable to