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.

589

ofHcers whatever, making seizures of sait, shall transmit without delay,
and by the most expeditious mode of conveyance, a report of the circum-
stances of the seizure to their immediate superiors. If the ofHcers
seizing salt shall omit to forward the required report, or shall make any
unnecessary delay in forwarding it, they shall, in the event of the salt not
being confiscated, be liable to be prosecuted in the Dewanny Adawlut for
damages by the proprietor of the salt, and to dismission from office, or, in the
event of the salt being confiscated, such ofHcers shall be dismissed from
ofHce, and forfeit to Government the amount of the reward to which they
would have become entitled in consequence of the confiscation of the salt.
LXXV. Abwh All subordinate ofHcers in the salt department are pro-
hibited from removing the attachment from any salt which they may
have seized, until they shall have received orders for that purpose from
the salt agents, or the superintending ofHcers of the salt chokies, or the
Board of UAsfcwz.s', AtA, tmh Subordinate ofHcers disobeying the
rules contained in this section shall be dismissed from their ofHce, and shall
pay a Hne of two hundred and Hfty .sicca rupees for every hundred maunds
of salt so released.
The salt agents, or the superintending ofHcers of the salt chokies,
are empowered to order the release of any salt seized by their own ofHcers,
or any salt which may have been seized and made over to their ofHcers by
the magistrates, collectors of revenue, or other functionary, if on inquiry
such salt agents, or superintending ofHcers of salt chokies, shall be of
opinion that the salt is not liable to confiscation.
iFAAtf. If salt shall have been seized by the ofHcers, or under the orders
of any magistrate, or by the orders of any collector of revenue or customs,
or deputy collector, or any ofHcer in charge of the abkarrv mehaul, or opium
agent, or his deputy, previously to the delivery of such salt to the ofHcers
of the salt department, and such magistrate, collector, or other ofHcer afore-
said, shall be of opinion that the salt was seized on false or erroneous
information, and that the salt is not liable to conHscation, he is hereby
empowered to release the salt.
LXXVI. The magistrates shall cause to be communicated, in the man-
ner which shall appear to them most convenient, to the salt agent or super-
intending ofHcer of chokies, the particulars of all information received from
the police-ofHcers, and also of all applications made to those ofHcers by the
ofHcers in the salt department, or by any ofHcer empowered to attach salt,
* for assistance in the seizure of salt.
See Reg. X. AG/A /hr p7'C?'672h'??g o/' XAd
LXXVII. Any common or alimentary salt, adulterated by an artiHcial
admixture with the substance called kharee-noon, or mixed with phool-
kharee-noon, puckwa salt, or any description of impure and bitter salt,
which may be found in any golah or shop, or in any place whatsoever, shall
be conHscated and destroyed; and any salt-merchant, or other person
selling salt, wholesale or retail, who„shall so adulterate it, or shall know-
ingly sell any salt so adulterated, shall pay a fine calculated at the rate of
ten rupees per maund of eighty-two Acca-weight to the seer, upon
the quantity which may be found so adulterated.



Same powers vested
in magistrates, &c. as