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 IV.

[A.D. 1821.

to take a prescribed
oath.

Collectors and other
revenue ofHcers ap-

Magistrates, &c. em-
ployed inthe collection
of Government.
Collectors, or other
revenue otHcers, em-
Regulations and by the
orders of the Superior
Courts.

preserve the records of
their respective oiRces
separate and distinct.

Suchof the rules in
force as declare col-
lectors amenable to
Zillah and City Courts
for acts done in oppo-
nue.
Proviso, in the event
of such ofHcer being
himself the judge of
the zillali or city in

In the institution of
a suit in a Zillah or
City Court, a magis-
trate employed in the
collection of revenue,
not being himself in

the public revenue, he shall, previously to entering upon the execution of
the duties of a collector, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by Sec-
tion XXV. and Section XXVI. Regulation V. 1804.
S6C072& In like manner, if a person holding the office of collector of
revenue, or of any other officer employed in the management or superin-
tendence of any branch of the territorial revenues, shall be appointed to
perform the duties of magistrate, or joint magistrate, he shall, previously
to entering upon the execution of such office, take and subscribe the oath
prescribed by Section II. Regulation IX. 1793, and Clause First, Sec-
tion III. Regulation XIII. 1793, with such verbal alterations only as may
be consonant to the nature of the appointment.
IV. If a person holding the office of magistrate, joint magistrate,
or of assistant to a magistrate, shall be employed in the collection of the
public revenue, he shall be guided in the execution of his duty as collector
by the orders of the Board of Revenue, or the Board of U7)7727722332777267w,
and by the rules and Regulations that have been, or may be, enacted for
the collection of the public revenue.
XdcmzfA If a person holding the office of collector of revenue, or other-
wise employed in the management or superintendence of any branch of the
territorial revenue, shall be appointed to perform the duties of magistrate,
or joint magistrate, he shall be guided in the execution of those duties by
the Regulations which have been, or may be, enacted for the guidance of
those officers respectively, and by the orders of the superior Courts of Cri-
minal Judicature, in all matters in which a controlling or superintending
power is vested in those courts.
V. Every magistrate, or joint magistrate, or assistant to a magistrate,
who may be employed in the collection of the revenue, and every collector
or other officer employed in the management or collection of the territorial
revenues, who may be authorized to exercise the powers of a magistrate, or
joint magistrate, under the provisions of this Regulation, shall be careful
to preserve the records of their judicial and revenue offices separate and
distinct from each other.
VI. Uhwh Such parts of the existing Regulations as declare the col-
lectors of revenue to be amenable to the Zillah and City Courts for any
acts done by them in their official capacity, in opposition to the Regula-
tions, shall be held applicable to any magistrate, or joint magistrate, or
assistant to a magistrate, who may be employed in the collection of the
public revenue.
6hco72<i Provided always, that if such individual shall at the same time
hold the office of judge of the zillah or city in which the act in question
may have been committed, such act shall not be cognizable by the Zillah
or City Court, ^7/ ZVcwmcmJ U77227Z o/ <AhT$m73 272 22V22A 32mA
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VII. In the institution of suits for the recovery of the public revenue,
or in any case in which the institution of a suit by the collector in the
Zillah or City Courts is authorized or directed by the Regulations, a
magistrate or joint magistrate, or assistant to a magistrate, employed in