Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: 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.

Certain otRcers con-
victed of embezzling
or making away with
salt entrusted to their
charge to be subject
to the punishment in-
flicted for theft.

Security to be fur-
nished by officers in the
saltdepartment having
charge of public money,
salt, or other public
property.

Penalties on salt da-
rogahs when guilty of
certain acts.

Penalties on persons
who may purchase or
procure salt in an illicit
manner.

with the payment of advances to the molunghees, who may, under any
pretence or coiour whatsoever, appropriate to his own use the whoie or
any part thereof or who may take or require from any molunghee or other
person employed or concerned in the manufacture of salt, a receipt or
other written acknowledgment for a larger sum of money than may have
been actually paid to him.
LXIV. Officers in charge of salt golahs, or any warehouse or other place'
in which salt, the property of Government, is stored, who may embezzle
any of the salt received into any such golah or place of deposit entrusted
to their charge, or who may knowingly permit any salt so received to be
carried from such golah or place of deposit, without an order from the
agent to whom he is subordinate, or who may so permit to be carried
from such golah or place aforesaid a greater quantity of salt than is spe-
cified in such order, or who may knowingly grant a receipt for a larger
quantity of salt than is received and stored by him, shall be held guilty of
theft, and punished accordingly, on conviction before a competent Criminal
Court. '
LXV. It shall be the duty of salt agents and superintendents of cho-
kies, on appointing any officer to situations involving the charge of public
money or the custody of salt, or any other public property, or to the situa-
tion of darogah or mohurrir of a salt chokey, to require such officer to
furnish two responsible sureties (hazir zaminee and mal zaminee) in such
sums as the Board of may direct. Officers
already appointed to situations of the above description, and who have
not furnished security as aforesaid, shall be required to do so within such
period as the Board of 602^ may judge proper; and
on failure to do so, shall be liable to dismission from office.
LXVI. Darogahs in the salt department, who may be convicted of con-
niving at smuggling, shall, besides removal from office and forfeiture of
the amount of their securities, pay a fine of ten rupees on every
maund of salt which shall have passed the chokies of which they shall
respectively be in charge, with their knowledge or connivance: provided
also, that the parties shall be liable to imprisonment in the Dewanny gaol,
for such period not exceeding six months, as may appear adequate to the
offence. Darogahs absent from their stations without leave shall be
responsible, under the penalty prescribed in the first part of this section,
for any connivance at smuggling which may be proved against the person
to whom the charge of the chokies may be left by them.
LXVII. Dealers in salt, pykars, or others making advances to molun-
ghees, officers attached to the salt department, or other persons, for the
illicit manufacture or delivery of salt, or purchasing or obtaining salt from
such molunghees, officers, or persons, in an illicit manner, shall on convic-
tion pay a fine of ten rupees for every maund of such salt for which
advances shad have been so made, or which shall have been so purchased
or obtained ; and the salt, if seized, shall be confiscated.

Modi&ed by
Xx'lxJl838.^

Penalties on odicers

LXVIII. If any officers or servants employed in the salt department,