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 (2): Regulations from 1806 to 1834 (London, 1854)

A.D. 1818.]

REGULATION XII.

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Modified by
Sec. xxi. Reg.
VII. 1824, and
Reg. VIII.
1826.

all cases in which the rewards assigned to persons seizing contraband
opium, or giving information leading to the seizure of such opium, or to
European functionaries by whose subordinate officers a seizure is effected,
are regulated by the quantity of opium seized and confiscated, the amount
of such rewards shall be proportionably reduced ; that is to say, in cases in
which, under the provisions of the said Regulation, persons, as aforesaid,
are entitled to a reward of two rupees eight annas per seer of eighty 320022
weight on the quantity of opium confiscated, such persons shall henceforth
receive for each seer one rupee twelve annas only ; and in cases in which the
reward now receivable is rupees five per seer, a reward of three rupees
eight annas per seer shall be granted.
N000722/. Provided further, that the said rewards of one rupee twelve
annas and three rupees eight annas per seer shall be granted only in cases
in which the owners of opium seized and confiscated may be apprehended
and convicted ; and that in cases in which the said owners shall not be
apprehended and convicted, the persons seizing the opium, or giving infor-
mation leading to the seizure of it, and the European functionaries by
whose subordinate officers the seizure may be effected, shall be entitled to
one moiety only of the said rewards, viz. to fourteen annas, or one rupee
twelve annas per seer, as the case may be.

A.D. 1817. REGULATION XII. *
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1818.
1. WHEREAS under the existing Regulations the magistrates are not
empowered to pass any sentence of punishment upon prisoners who may
be charged before them with the offence of breaking into or attempting
to break into houses, tents, boats, or other places of habitation, or into
warehouses or other places used for the custody of property, with an intent
to steal, as defined in Section II. Regulation 1. 1811, or with the offence
of receiving or buying stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen ; and
whereas much of the time of the judges of circuit is occupied in investi-
gating these and some other offences, which, from their character and from
the circumstances attending their perpetration, do not very frequently
* Important modifications of this Regulation have been effected by the provisions of
Reg. IV. 1820, and VI. 1824, which see. Corporal punishment, abolished by Reg. II. 1834,
is deciared commutable to further imprisonmenh.by the same Regulation.
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Reg. XII. 1818.

Preamble.