See ActXVII.
t835.

A.D. 1822.] REGULATION 1. 623
shall he understood to authorize the officers of Government or individuals
to make any demand on account of such deduction or allowance, nor shall
any such demand be held valid.
III. All malguzars or other persons whose engagements are expressed
in Tirsoolee rupees, shall be allowed a batta of rupees 3. 11. 7. per cent,
on payments made in or rupees ; that is to say, on the
payment of rupees 96. 4. 5. of the or LArar<?.$ currency, the
said persons shall have credit for 100 Tirsoolee rupees, in liquidation of
demands under engagements expressed in that description of rupee : pro-
vided always, that all suspended or unsettled demands or accounts shall be
adjusted on the same principle, but no fresh demands shall be admitted on
account of any deduction or allowance made in the settlement of accounts
already adjusted.
IV. All mehauls held in farm within the province of Benares, whereof
there may be no ancient proprietors forthcoming entitled to re-enter
subject to the payment of the jurnma already fixed, being open to re-settle-
ment on the death of the farmers, it is hereby declared and enacted, that
the collectors within the said province shall hereafter adjust the assessment
of such estates, with reference to the assets estimated in AV7T2xcA:<2&(7
rupees, and that the engagements of the malguzars of such estates shall
be uniformly expressed in that currency. In like manner, in cases wherein
the ancient Zemindars may be entitled to re-enter, subject to the payment
of the jumma already fixed, the said jumma, if expressed in Gohurshahee
or Tirsoolee rupees, shall be converted into rupees at the rates
hereinbefore specified, and the engagements of the proprietors shall be
expressed in the last-mentioned currency.

A.D. 1822. REGULATION 1.
A REGULATION gbr 7X773 672^27377 WAAV. 1793, Ax^XxAdXXUZ AXWAA.
1893, 7X737^ U. 1809 : PASSED /b/ ^6 6r0Vgf7207"-(r(?72d712<? 773
C02272C27, 073 A26 18b%- Jb73227X7y, 1822.
WHEREAS it has been deemed advisable that persons engaged in affrays,
and native subjects of the British Government, committing criminal
offences in places out of the limits of the British provinces, should in
cases of minor importance, and of an unaggravated nature, be declared
punishable by the magistrates, without commitment to the Courts of
Circuit; and whereas Regulation XLIX. 1793, Regulation XXXII.
1803, and Regulation V. 1809, have been held to place the punishment
of such offenders beyond the competence of the magistrates, and to render
their commitment for trial to the Courts of Circuit indispensable; the fol-
lowing rules have been enacted, to be in force throughout the British




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