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A.D. 1826.]
REGULATION X.
779
therefrom of condimentary salt is carried on in the district of Chittagong
to a great extent, contrary to the obvious intent and meaning of the law:
and whereas it is the intention of Government to authorize the retail sale
of salt at a cheap rate in the said district, and in certain other parts of the
country, where such a measure appears to he required for the relief of the
people, according to a system already established in the province of Cut-
tack ; the following rules have been enacted, to be in force from the date
of their promulgation.
II. [Application of Section L. Regulation X. 1819, to Goruckpore.]—
7. 1848.
III. It is hereby declared and enacted, that the manufacture within the
provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, of noon-chye, or any description of
saline substance used as a condiment with food (excepting on account of
Government or with its sanction), is and shall be considered to be a
violation of the rule contained in Section XXX. Regulation X. 1819 ;
any place prepared for the reception or evaporation of salt-water, or the
collection of earth or other matter impregnated with salt, for the purpose
of manufacturing salt or any saline substance as aforesaid, shall be held to
constitute a salt-work, within the meaning of Section XXXI. and the four
subsequent sections of the said Regulation. And the manufacture, impor-
tation, transportation, possession, sale, and purchase of any saline substance,
as aforesaid shall be and be held liable to the same rules, restrictions,
and penalties as attach to manufacture, importation, transportation, pos-
session, sale, or purchase of ordinary alimentary salt.
IV. Where from local circumstances, or other sufficient cause, it shall
appear to Government to be proper to direct the retail sale of salt within
any particular district or tract of country, and consequently to modify the
rules generally applicable to that branch of the public resources, it shall
be competent to the Governor-General in Council, by an order in council,
to direct the said rules, or any part of them, to be suspended within the
district or tract of country in question, for such period as may from time
to time appear proper, and in lieu thereof to prescribe for the same such
other rules relative to transportation, sale, purchase, and possession of salt,
and for the issue and disposal of rowannahs and passes as may from time
to time appear to be expedient. Provided, however, that the penalties
attaching to the violation of the rules so specially prescribed shall not in
any case exceed those which would attach under the general Regulations
to the illicit transportation, sale, purchase, or possession of the like quan-
tity of salt. In all such cases, the special rules prescribed shall be pub-
lished in the current language of the district, and shall be affixed at the
cutcherry of the judge, magistrate, and collector of the district, as well as
at the office of the local salt agent and superintendent of chokies, and
at the several police thannahs and salt chokies within the tract in
question.
The manufacture of
noon-chye, or any other
description of saline
substance in the pro-
vinces of Bengal, Be-
har, and Orissa, shall
he considered to be a
violation of the rules
contained in Sec. xxx.
Reg.X.1819.
Retail sale of salt al-
lowed under certain
Special rules to be
prescribed in such
cases.
Such rules to be
published.
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REGULATION X.
779
therefrom of condimentary salt is carried on in the district of Chittagong
to a great extent, contrary to the obvious intent and meaning of the law:
and whereas it is the intention of Government to authorize the retail sale
of salt at a cheap rate in the said district, and in certain other parts of the
country, where such a measure appears to he required for the relief of the
people, according to a system already established in the province of Cut-
tack ; the following rules have been enacted, to be in force from the date
of their promulgation.
II. [Application of Section L. Regulation X. 1819, to Goruckpore.]—
7. 1848.
III. It is hereby declared and enacted, that the manufacture within the
provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, of noon-chye, or any description of
saline substance used as a condiment with food (excepting on account of
Government or with its sanction), is and shall be considered to be a
violation of the rule contained in Section XXX. Regulation X. 1819 ;
any place prepared for the reception or evaporation of salt-water, or the
collection of earth or other matter impregnated with salt, for the purpose
of manufacturing salt or any saline substance as aforesaid, shall be held to
constitute a salt-work, within the meaning of Section XXXI. and the four
subsequent sections of the said Regulation. And the manufacture, impor-
tation, transportation, possession, sale, and purchase of any saline substance,
as aforesaid shall be and be held liable to the same rules, restrictions,
and penalties as attach to manufacture, importation, transportation, pos-
session, sale, or purchase of ordinary alimentary salt.
IV. Where from local circumstances, or other sufficient cause, it shall
appear to Government to be proper to direct the retail sale of salt within
any particular district or tract of country, and consequently to modify the
rules generally applicable to that branch of the public resources, it shall
be competent to the Governor-General in Council, by an order in council,
to direct the said rules, or any part of them, to be suspended within the
district or tract of country in question, for such period as may from time
to time appear proper, and in lieu thereof to prescribe for the same such
other rules relative to transportation, sale, purchase, and possession of salt,
and for the issue and disposal of rowannahs and passes as may from time
to time appear to be expedient. Provided, however, that the penalties
attaching to the violation of the rules so specially prescribed shall not in
any case exceed those which would attach under the general Regulations
to the illicit transportation, sale, purchase, or possession of the like quan-
tity of salt. In all such cases, the special rules prescribed shall be pub-
lished in the current language of the district, and shall be affixed at the
cutcherry of the judge, magistrate, and collector of the district, as well as
at the office of the local salt agent and superintendent of chokies, and
at the several police thannahs and salt chokies within the tract in
question.
The manufacture of
noon-chye, or any other
description of saline
substance in the pro-
vinces of Bengal, Be-
har, and Orissa, shall
he considered to be a
violation of the rules
contained in Sec. xxx.
Reg.X.1819.
Retail sale of salt al-
lowed under certain
Special rules to be
prescribed in such
cases.
Such rules to be
published.
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