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)

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REGULATION X.

[A.D. 1819.

The provisionof salt
by whom to be super-
intended.

Control over the salt
chokies by whom to be
exercised.


special circumstances
may be granted by
Government.

1800, Regulation VI. of 1801, Regulation XII. of 1801, Regula-
tion XLVIII. of 1803, Regulation IX. of 1806, and Regulation XXII. of
1814, which are now in force, and have relation either to the conduct of
persons concerned in the provision of salt on the public account, the
importation, the illicit manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, adulte-
ration, or possession of salt, and are not specially re-enacted by this Regu-
lation, are hereby rescinded : provided, however, that the several rules
rescinded by the provisions of the Regulations above recited, or any of
them, shall be and continue repealed.
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III. The superintendence of the provision of salt, on account of Govern-
ment, shall continue to be intrusted to covenanted servants of the Company,
under the official appellation of salt agents, and the Governor-General in
Council reserves to himself the power of varying the number of such
officers, according as he may deem fit, and of fixing the stations for their
residence at his discretion.
IV. The immediate control over and charge of the several salt chokies
at present established, shall, as heretofore, be ordinarily vested in civil
servants of the Company, under the denomination of superintendents of
salt chokies ; but it shall be competent to the Governor-(rC72C7'%A 272 O02272C2?
to vest the charge of those chokies, or any of them, in any other officer he
may judge fit; and the officer so appointed shall have and exercise the
same powers and duties, as it may or shall be lawful for the superintend-
ents of salt chokies to exercise.* It shall likewise be competent to the
Governor-General in Council to order such chokies to be stationed in any
district where he may deem it necessary with a view to the suppression
of illicit transactions in salt, and to vest the superintendence thereof in
any officer he may deem expedient: provided, however, that a list of all
chokies now established, or which may hereafter be established, shall be
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intendents under whose control they may severally be placed.
V. AVr-y/. Salt agents, superintendents of salt chokies, and their respec-
tive assistants and subordinate officers, shall not, without the special
permission of Government, carry on, directly or indirectly, any trade, nor
be concerned in any commercial transaction whatever. This prohibition
is declared to extend to the purchase, directly or indirectly, of any goods
or commodities in the British dominions in Bengal, for the purpose of
remitting money to Europe.
*Shc<372h. Whenever any of the officers above mentioned shall be desirous
of obtaining a special exemption from the operation of the above rule, he
shall state in writing the nature of the commercial transactions in which
* By Act IX. 1835, the Governor of Bengal is authorized to limit the powers to he exercised
by uncovenanted superintendents of salt chokies, and to vest the power of adjudicating upon
offences against the salt iaws in any judicial or reveuue officer; and by Sec. xxv. Act XXIX.
1838, he is authorized to vest those powers in any assistant to a salt agent or uncovenanted
superintendent of sa!t chokies.