Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergUniversitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Metadaten

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

DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.34368#0782
Überblick
Faksimile
0.5
1 cm
facsimile
Vollansicht
OCR-Volltext
772

REGULATION III.

[A.D. 1826.

The above rules to
be applicable to estates
nowheldkhas.

be excluded for wilfully
reducing the cultivation
of their lands.

Reg. III. 1826.

Preamble.

Sec. iii. Reg. IV.
1816, modihed.

< Magistrate vested
with power of summary
inquiry and punish-
ment.

mehauls may be let in farm, the term of the lease granted to the farmers
shall not, excepting as hereinafter excepted, exceed twelve years. The
above rules shall likewise be applicable to estates now held khas; so in
any case wherein the zemindars and other proprietors may refuse to continue
their existing engagements on equitable terms, it shall be competent to the
revenue authorities to let the lands in farm for such period (with the restric-
tion herein specified) as the Governor-General in Council shall appoint, or
to assume the direct management of them, and to retain them under khas
management during the period aforesaid, or such shorter period as may be
judged proper; provided also, that in cases wherein it shall appear that the
zemindars have wilfully reduced the cultivation of their lands, or other-
wise deteriorated the mehaul under their management or in their occu-
pancy, it shall be competent to the revenue authorities to exclude persons
so offending, and to let the lands in farm for a period of fifteen years.
Leases for a like period may also be granted to zemindars and farmers in
cases where from special local circumstances the measure may appear
necessary, with a view to the reclaiming of waste, the construction of
wmrks requisite for the extension of cultivation, or otherwise for the
improvement -of the country.

A.D. 1826. REGULATION III.
A REGULATION /b?' 6V/6722A727/ /O AU2272X72722/ A^7'M07267W .S'07727? qA /Ad AVoV-
6*277726' 272 Acy22ACo72 A7U. 1816, 72727/ ,/b?' 772777/2/^/2727/ /Ad AG A 67772 /72 2 72 67/ 272
X6C/27772 AAA. AA7/22A/Z2072 A U. 1816: PASSED A/ /Ac Go667'/2777*-6r67267TA 272
(7oM72cA, 072 /Ae 11/A A/222/, 1826.
I. WHEREAS the rules contained in Regulation XIV. 1816, apply'only
to the criminal jails : and whereas it is expedient to extend them in part
to prisoners confined in the civil jails under process of the Civil Courts:
and whereas the occasional separation of the offices of judge and magis-
trate makes it necessary to modify the rule contained in Section III.
Regulation IV. 1816 ; the following rules are therefore enacted, to be in
force from the time of their promulgation, in all the provinces imme-
diately subject to the presidency of Fort William.
II. In modification of Section III. Regulation IV. 1816, the control of SeeActXViH.
the civil jail of each zillah and city jurisdiction is hereby vested in the
magistrate of such district or city, and the magistrate shall henceforth per-
form the duties described in the section above cited.
III. The magistrate is hereby vested with authority to punish, on a
summary inquiry, the offences specified in the following section of this
Regulation.
 
Annotationen