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OHicers not autho-
rized to seize salt,
strictly prohibited from
tion of the illicit manu-
facture, sale, or trans-
portation of salt.
OiRcersofthesalt
department making
seizures how to pro-
ceed.
588 REGULATION X. [A.D. 1819.
agent or superintending officer of salt chokies, to whom ail salt so seized
shall be delivered.
LXXII. The salt agents and their officers, the officers of the salt
chokies, and officers in the salt department acting under the immediate
orders of the Board of (7^.^0772^, being alone empowered
to attach, of their own authority, and by virtue of their offices, salt which
they may know or suspect to have been illegally manufactured, imported,
sold, or transported, no officers excepting those above described shall
seize or detain salt, unless specially vested by Government with authority
to that effect.
LXXIII. Whenever any of the native officers subordinate to a zillah
or city magistrate, collector of land revenue, or officers in charge of the
abkarrv mehaul, or a collector or deputy collector of customs, who may
be specially authorized by Government to seize salt, shall receive informa-
tion of any salt not made in the Company's provinces of Bengal or Orissa, SeeActxvi.
on account of Government, having been illegally imported into the said
territories, or of salt of any description being transported or stored within
the limits of the salt chokies without the proper rowannah, chellaun, char
chitties, or special pass, or of any salt being manufactured on account of
individuals, by molunghees or other persons, at the kalaries or salt-works
established on account of the Company, or at any kalaries or salt-works
established by individuals for the purpose of manufacturing salt on their
own account, or that of any other persons, the several officers aforesaid
shall, as above directed, transmit immediate notice thereof to the nearest
officer in the salt department empowered to attach contraband salt, and
to the magistrate or other functionary to whose immediate orders they
may be subject, and shall further be guided by the following rule. If
the salt shall be accompanied by a regular rowannah, chellaun, char chittv,
or special pass, the native officers shall confine themselves to sending the
information aforesaid to the nearest officer in the salt department, and to
the European functionary to whom they may be subordinate, and to assist
in the seizure of the salt either under the orders of their immediate
superior, or on application from the officers of the salt department, and
shall not seize or detain any salt accompanied by such papers in the first
instance of their own authority ; but if any dispatch of salt shall be
unaccompanied by a rowannah, chellaun, char chitty, or special pass as
aforesaid, the said officers are empowered, of their own authority, to detain
the salt, sending without delay notice of the detention of the salt to their
superior and to the nearest officer in the salt department. Any native
officer of Government (not being an officer attached to the salt depart-
ment), unless specially authorized to do so, as well as any such officer who,
though specially authorized as above, may seize or detain salt accompanied
by a regular rowannah, chellaun, char chitty, or special pass, shall be liable
to be dismissed from his office, and to be prosecuted for damages in the
Dewanny Adawlut by the owner or the holder of such salt.
LXXIV. The officers of the salt agents and of the superintending See Secs. ix.
officer of salt chokies, and officers acting under the immediate orders xxixms38.^
of the Board of 6^0772$, O/A22772, and all other subordinate
rized to seize salt,
strictly prohibited from
tion of the illicit manu-
facture, sale, or trans-
portation of salt.
OiRcersofthesalt
department making
seizures how to pro-
ceed.
588 REGULATION X. [A.D. 1819.
agent or superintending officer of salt chokies, to whom ail salt so seized
shall be delivered.
LXXII. The salt agents and their officers, the officers of the salt
chokies, and officers in the salt department acting under the immediate
orders of the Board of (7^.^0772^, being alone empowered
to attach, of their own authority, and by virtue of their offices, salt which
they may know or suspect to have been illegally manufactured, imported,
sold, or transported, no officers excepting those above described shall
seize or detain salt, unless specially vested by Government with authority
to that effect.
LXXIII. Whenever any of the native officers subordinate to a zillah
or city magistrate, collector of land revenue, or officers in charge of the
abkarrv mehaul, or a collector or deputy collector of customs, who may
be specially authorized by Government to seize salt, shall receive informa-
tion of any salt not made in the Company's provinces of Bengal or Orissa, SeeActxvi.
on account of Government, having been illegally imported into the said
territories, or of salt of any description being transported or stored within
the limits of the salt chokies without the proper rowannah, chellaun, char
chitties, or special pass, or of any salt being manufactured on account of
individuals, by molunghees or other persons, at the kalaries or salt-works
established on account of the Company, or at any kalaries or salt-works
established by individuals for the purpose of manufacturing salt on their
own account, or that of any other persons, the several officers aforesaid
shall, as above directed, transmit immediate notice thereof to the nearest
officer in the salt department empowered to attach contraband salt, and
to the magistrate or other functionary to whose immediate orders they
may be subject, and shall further be guided by the following rule. If
the salt shall be accompanied by a regular rowannah, chellaun, char chittv,
or special pass, the native officers shall confine themselves to sending the
information aforesaid to the nearest officer in the salt department, and to
the European functionary to whom they may be subordinate, and to assist
in the seizure of the salt either under the orders of their immediate
superior, or on application from the officers of the salt department, and
shall not seize or detain any salt accompanied by such papers in the first
instance of their own authority ; but if any dispatch of salt shall be
unaccompanied by a rowannah, chellaun, char chitty, or special pass as
aforesaid, the said officers are empowered, of their own authority, to detain
the salt, sending without delay notice of the detention of the salt to their
superior and to the nearest officer in the salt department. Any native
officer of Government (not being an officer attached to the salt depart-
ment), unless specially authorized to do so, as well as any such officer who,
though specially authorized as above, may seize or detain salt accompanied
by a regular rowannah, chellaun, char chitty, or special pass, shall be liable
to be dismissed from his office, and to be prosecuted for damages in the
Dewanny Adawlut by the owner or the holder of such salt.
LXXIV. The officers of the salt agents and of the superintending See Secs. ix.
officer of salt chokies, and officers acting under the immediate orders xxixms38.^
of the Board of 6^0772$, O/A22772, and all other subordinate