DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.34368#0615
A.D. 1820.] REGULATION III.
005
A.D. 1820. REGULATION III.
A REGULATION ^/b?' 7Y,yc777A'7?q .so 772 c q/ Z7'07VA2072.s q/* Zqq22/77<f7077 XZ
1800, 7277(b ybr p7YP6722*272q ^6 Z/Y^GAc q/* Z^7Y.S.S277q GoO^US' 07' Zqq07YC.S .-
PASSED by ^6 Go7Y7Y207'-ZY72C7Y2/ 777 Go2277C2Y, 077 2*bc 24^A dZt^I'cA, 1820.
I. WHEREAS the authority vested by Regulation XI. 1806, in the col-
lectors and their native officers, and in the magistrates and their police-
officers to assist in procuring coolies for the purpose of facilitating the
march of detachments of troops, or the progress of individual travellers, has
operated to encourage the highly injurious practice which prevails, of
forcibly pressing certain classes of the inhabitants of the towns and villages,
under the denomination of begarees or coolies, for the purpose of carrying
baggage or other loads from stage to stage or from village to village; and
whereas the Governor-General in Council has deemed it expedient to
adopt measures for the entire suppression of the said highly objectionable
practice, the following rules have been enacted, to have effect throughout
the whole of the territories immediately subordinate to the presidency of
Fort William, from the date of their promulgation.
II. Such part of the provisions of Regulation XI. 1806, as authorizes
the collectors and their native officers, or the magistrates and their police-
officers, to give their official aid in procuring coolies for the purpose of
facilitating the march of troops, or the progress of civil and military officers,
or other individuals travelling through the country, either on the public
service or on their private affairs, is hereby rescinded.
III. The practice of pressing or compelling individuals, whether under
the denomination of coolies, begarees, or any other denomination, to carry
burthens, either for the public service or for the convenience of private
individuals, is hereby positively prohibited; and the several magistrates
and joint magistrates are required to adopt all legal means in their power
to put an entire stop to the practice in question, by inquiring fully into
all complaints which may be brought before them, and by subjecting
persons regularly convicted of the offence, to such penalties as on a
consideration of the circumstances of the case may appear to be proper,
and consistent with the powers vested in the magistrates by the general
Regulations.
Reg. III. 1820.
Part of the provisions
of Reg. XI. 1806,
005
A.D. 1820. REGULATION III.
A REGULATION ^/b?' 7Y,yc777A'7?q .so 772 c q/ Z7'07VA2072.s q/* Zqq22/77<f7077 XZ
1800, 7277(b ybr p7YP6722*272q ^6 Z/Y^GAc q/* Z^7Y.S.S277q GoO^US' 07' Zqq07YC.S .-
PASSED by ^6 Go7Y7Y207'-ZY72C7Y2/ 777 Go2277C2Y, 077 2*bc 24^A dZt^I'cA, 1820.
I. WHEREAS the authority vested by Regulation XI. 1806, in the col-
lectors and their native officers, and in the magistrates and their police-
officers to assist in procuring coolies for the purpose of facilitating the
march of detachments of troops, or the progress of individual travellers, has
operated to encourage the highly injurious practice which prevails, of
forcibly pressing certain classes of the inhabitants of the towns and villages,
under the denomination of begarees or coolies, for the purpose of carrying
baggage or other loads from stage to stage or from village to village; and
whereas the Governor-General in Council has deemed it expedient to
adopt measures for the entire suppression of the said highly objectionable
practice, the following rules have been enacted, to have effect throughout
the whole of the territories immediately subordinate to the presidency of
Fort William, from the date of their promulgation.
II. Such part of the provisions of Regulation XI. 1806, as authorizes
the collectors and their native officers, or the magistrates and their police-
officers, to give their official aid in procuring coolies for the purpose of
facilitating the march of troops, or the progress of civil and military officers,
or other individuals travelling through the country, either on the public
service or on their private affairs, is hereby rescinded.
III. The practice of pressing or compelling individuals, whether under
the denomination of coolies, begarees, or any other denomination, to carry
burthens, either for the public service or for the convenience of private
individuals, is hereby positively prohibited; and the several magistrates
and joint magistrates are required to adopt all legal means in their power
to put an entire stop to the practice in question, by inquiring fully into
all complaints which may be brought before them, and by subjecting
persons regularly convicted of the offence, to such penalties as on a
consideration of the circumstances of the case may appear to be proper,
and consistent with the powers vested in the magistrates by the general
Regulations.
Reg. III. 1820.
Part of the provisions
of Reg. XI. 1806,