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)

A.D. 1819.]

REGULATION X.

587

Act XXIX.'
1838.

See Secs. xvi.
andxvii. Act
XXIX. 1838.

See Secs. ix.
and x. Act
XXIX. 1838.

or any other native ofHcer of Government, shah, under any pretence or by
any means whatever, directly or indirectly, cause salt to be obtained from
the manufacturers or other persons employed in the salt department, other-
wise than on account of the Government, or shall cause salt to be manu-
factured for their own benefit, or knowingly permit such manufacture for
the benefit of any other person, the salt so obtained or manufactured shall
be confiscated, and the ofHcer or servant so obtaining the salt, or causing
the salt to be so manufactured, shall on conviction pay a Hue, to be calcu-
lated at the rate of dicca rupees ten for every maund of salt so obtained or
manufactured; and the ofHcer or servant aforesaid shall further be liable
to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months.
LXIX. In cases in which the darogah shall be declared liable to the
penalty speciHed in Section LXVI., the mohurrir of the chokey shall be
considered to have connived with the darogah, and shall pay a Hne of two
rupees eight annas for every maund of salt illicitly transported, unless it
shall appear that such mohurrir was absent with leave from the station at
the time when such offence was committed, or that he gave immediate
information of the circumstance to the superintendent, and otherwise used
his utmost endeavours to cause the seizure of the salt, or was prevented
from doing so by some unavoidable cause.
LXX. Molunghees or others receiving advances for the manufacture of
salt on account of Government, who may be guilty of the embezzlement
of the salt, for the provision of which they may have received advances
from Government, or of otherwise illegally disposing of any salt manu-
factured by them, shall on conviction be liable to a Hne of four rupees
per maund of eighty-two ^fcca-weight to the seer fbr each and every maund
of salt embezzled; and the salt so embezzled shall be conHscated. In
addition to the above penalty, the offenders shall be imprisoned for a period
not exceeding three months.
AGA.s' /Ae _Pmcc)'.s' o/ m /o /Ac of XoA.
LXXI. The authority to seize salt and other articles liable to
seizure and conHscation, under the rules of this Regulation, shall as here-
tofore, ordinarily and in virtue of their ofHces, be exercised by salt agents
and superintendents of salt chokies and their assistants, uncovenanted
European and subordinate native officers. But the Governor-General in
Council reserves to himself the power of vesting a like authority in such
of the zillah and city magistrates, collectors of land revenue, or ofHcers in
charge of the abkarry mehaul, collectors and deputy-collectors of customs,
opium agents and their deputies, and their subordinate ofHcers respectively,
as he may deem Ht.
Xccwzdf. Provided, however, that all uncovenanted European or native
ofHcers making a seizure under the powers vested in them by this Regu-
lation, or by the special orders of the Governor-General in Council, shall,
withintwenty-fourhours aftermaking suchseizure,communicate their having
done so, with a report of the circumstances connected with the seizure,
to the authority to which they may be respectively subject, and the magis-
trate or other ofHcer to whom information of a seizure may be thus com-
municated shall immediatelv transmit the report to the nearest salt
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department for certain
acts of wilful miscon-
duct.

In what cases the
mohurrirsof chokies to
be responsible for the
acts of their superiors.

hees for embezzling or
illicitly disposing of
salt.

What persons autho-
rized to seize salt.

Cases of seizure to
be reported without
delay.