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 1.

[A.D. 1824.



Grounds on which
alone award shall be



applicable to the re-
moval of obstructions
to the navigation of
rivers.

to be applicable to
lands required for the
use of the salt depart-
ment, unless so ex-
pressly provided.

mation. But nothing herein contained shall affect the liability of the
party who may receive the value of any land or other property transferred
to Government without having a good title to the same.
VII. AYVyk On the close of the inquiry the arbitrator or umpire shall
deliver to the officer commissioned as aforesaid to superintend the arbitra-
tion, a full and specific report and award upon the point or points sub-
mitted to their arbitration, under their respective signatures, with a solemn
declaration subscribed thereto, that the award so given is, to the best, of
their judgment, true and impartial; and, according to the evidence
adduced before them, they shall, at the same time, deposit with the said
ofhcer the whole of their proceedings.
The aforesaid ofhcer shall transmit to the Governor-General in
Council the report and award so delivered to him, with a report, stating
the material points thereof, and his sentiments, how far the inquiry made
by the arbitrators appears to have been conducted with fairness and
impartiality, or otherwise; and the said ofhcer shall be guided by the
instructions of the Governor-General in Council in regard to the execu-
tion of the aivard, when the same shall have been approved by Govern-
ment.
AOW. No award made under this Regulation shall be liable to be
reversed or altered, unless the same shall be open to impeachment on the
ground of corruption or gross partiality, or shall extend beyond the autho-
rity given to the arbitrators; and such ground of impeachment shall be
established on a regular suit in the Adawlut.
AowM. If, after the award has been given in by the arbitrators, and the
Governor-General in Council shall have directed the premises to be appro-
priated for public purposes, the officer directed to occupy the same shall
be opposed or impeded in taking possession, he shall apply to the magis-
trate of the district, to whom it shall and may be lawful to enforce the
surrender of the said premises.
AY/M. In cases referred to arbitration, under the provisions of the pre-
ceding sections, any necessary expense which may attend the inquiry of
the arbitrators, whether for the diet of witnesses or otherwise, shall be
paid by Government.
VIII. The rules contained in the preceding sections of this Regulation
shall not be held to be applicable to the removal from the bed or banks of
navigable rivers or streams, of trees, broken boats, timbers, or the like,
which may obstruct, or be likely to obstruct the navigation of such rivers
and streams. Such obstructions may be summarily removed by the
magistrates of the several cities and zillahs, or by such other officer or
officers as the Governor-General in Council may by an order in council
vest with the superintendence of any such river or stream, under the laws
and usages applicable to the removal of nuisances, and such special pro-
visions as may hereafter be enacted.
IX. Since the revenue derived by Government from salt, within
the provinces of Bengal, Orissa, and Cuttack is realized in the form of a
monopoly of the manufacture, under a system established in the years
1780 and 1781, and since, in the prosecution of this system, Government