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A.D. 1819.]
REGULATION VII.
547
trate's order, a proportionate rent, calculated at such rate only as he may
have tendered.
XIII. The foregoing rules are intended to apply exclusively to
those ferries which may be declared to be public ferries. With regard to
all other ferries, the magistrates and joint magistrates shall not interfere
with them further than may be necessary for the general maintenance of
the police, and for the safety of passengers and property.
/SYcmzG?. Provided, however, that if any person shall be drowned or
exposed to imminent danger, or if any property shall be lost or damaged
by the oversetting or sinking of a ferry-boat, and it shall be established on
inquiry before the magistrate or joint magistrate, that the boat was over-
loaded with passengers or property, or was insufficiently manned, or was
out of repair at the time of the accident, the manjee of the ghaut or boat,
if duly convicted of permitting his boat to be overloaded, or to be insufh-
eiently manned, or out of repair, shall be liable to such punishment as the
magistrate or joint magistrate may think proper to impose, not exceeding
imprisonment for six months, or a fine of two hundred rupees.
XIV. An annual statement, made up to the first of January of each
year, shall be forwarded by the several magistrates and joint magistrates
to the superintendents of police, exhibiting the number of public ferries in
each district, the amount of the net assessment realized from such of them
as may be subject to assessment, and the purposes to which the amount so
realized may have been appropriated under Clause Second, Section VII.
of this Regulation. In submitting to Government the results of those
statements, the superintendents of police will offer any suggestions which
may appear to them calculated to facilitate or to improve the practical
operation of the system.
A.D. 1819. REGULATION VII.
A REGULATION ybr &cbarz'zzy Jfz.s&mgtzzzoMzts yzzzzzz.sbzzbA by ^6
; azzzb /bz* &/uzzzzy ^ Y^zzzzz.sbzzzgzz^ zlo & zzz
(7%.^; PASSED by Gbrgr/zor-Gkzzgra/ zzz LhzzzzczY, ozz 9^ Jzz/y,
1819.
1. IT has been represented to Government, that in some parts of the
country, and especially in cities and large towns, the peace and happiness
of families are often destroyed by evil-disposed persons, chiefly women,
who are employed to entice and take away the wives, or female children,
of the fixed inhabitants from their respective houses, for the purpose of
rendering them prostitutes, or concubines, or of otherwise unlawfully dis-
posing of them, to their serious detriment, and to the injury of their hus-
bands and parents. It has also been stated, that great distress to women
4 A 2
Magistrates prohibit-
ed from interfering
with any other than
boats being overloaded,
or inadequately found.
Punishment to which
manjees or others are
declared liable on con-
viction in such cases.
Annual statements
of public ferries made
up to the 1st January
in each year, to be for-
warded by the magis-
trates to Government,
through the superin-
tendents of police.
What such state-
ments are to contain.
Reg. VII. 1819.
Preamble.
REGULATION VII.
547
trate's order, a proportionate rent, calculated at such rate only as he may
have tendered.
XIII. The foregoing rules are intended to apply exclusively to
those ferries which may be declared to be public ferries. With regard to
all other ferries, the magistrates and joint magistrates shall not interfere
with them further than may be necessary for the general maintenance of
the police, and for the safety of passengers and property.
/SYcmzG?. Provided, however, that if any person shall be drowned or
exposed to imminent danger, or if any property shall be lost or damaged
by the oversetting or sinking of a ferry-boat, and it shall be established on
inquiry before the magistrate or joint magistrate, that the boat was over-
loaded with passengers or property, or was insufficiently manned, or was
out of repair at the time of the accident, the manjee of the ghaut or boat,
if duly convicted of permitting his boat to be overloaded, or to be insufh-
eiently manned, or out of repair, shall be liable to such punishment as the
magistrate or joint magistrate may think proper to impose, not exceeding
imprisonment for six months, or a fine of two hundred rupees.
XIV. An annual statement, made up to the first of January of each
year, shall be forwarded by the several magistrates and joint magistrates
to the superintendents of police, exhibiting the number of public ferries in
each district, the amount of the net assessment realized from such of them
as may be subject to assessment, and the purposes to which the amount so
realized may have been appropriated under Clause Second, Section VII.
of this Regulation. In submitting to Government the results of those
statements, the superintendents of police will offer any suggestions which
may appear to them calculated to facilitate or to improve the practical
operation of the system.
A.D. 1819. REGULATION VII.
A REGULATION ybr &cbarz'zzy Jfz.s&mgtzzzoMzts yzzzzzz.sbzzbA by ^6
; azzzb /bz* &/uzzzzy ^ Y^zzzzz.sbzzzgzz^ zlo & zzz
(7%.^; PASSED by Gbrgr/zor-Gkzzgra/ zzz LhzzzzczY, ozz 9^ Jzz/y,
1819.
1. IT has been represented to Government, that in some parts of the
country, and especially in cities and large towns, the peace and happiness
of families are often destroyed by evil-disposed persons, chiefly women,
who are employed to entice and take away the wives, or female children,
of the fixed inhabitants from their respective houses, for the purpose of
rendering them prostitutes, or concubines, or of otherwise unlawfully dis-
posing of them, to their serious detriment, and to the injury of their hus-
bands and parents. It has also been stated, that great distress to women
4 A 2
Magistrates prohibit-
ed from interfering
with any other than
boats being overloaded,
or inadequately found.
Punishment to which
manjees or others are
declared liable on con-
viction in such cases.
Annual statements
of public ferries made
up to the 1st January
in each year, to be for-
warded by the magis-
trates to Government,
through the superin-
tendents of police.
What such state-
ments are to contain.
Reg. VII. 1819.
Preamble.