Clarke, Richard [Editor]: 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 (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

A.D. 1838.]

ACT XXIX.

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door of the house, warehouse, or other place in which the salt may be
stated to be stored, if, upon requisition duly made, the door be not imme-
diately opened by the owner or occupant thereof.
V. And it is hereby enacted, that if the salt agent or superintendent
shall not be able to proceed in person to make a seizure of salt, in
manner above provided, he shall send along with the informer one or
more confidential officers of his public establishment, mot being under
the rank of a jemadar of peons, giving to such officer or officers his
warrant ordering and authorizing the seizure, and sending notice as
above prescribed for the police darogah or other police officer to attend;
and the officer so deputed shall have power to act in like manner as
is provided for the agent or superintendent in person : provided that
the door of no house, warehouse, or other place, shall be broken open
to make a seizure of salt except in the presence of a salt agent or
superintendent of chokies, or of an officer so specially deputed, and of an
officer of police.
VI. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be competent to the head
officer of any salt chokey or aurung for the manufacture of salt, and
for any assistant to a salt agent or superintendent, to receive informa-
tion of salt exceeding one maund in quantity being in store in a house,
warehouse, or other place in the manner prescribed in Section II. and
to act thereupon as provided in Sections III. and IV. of this Act for
the salt agent and superintendent, provided that the place of store
described in such information be situated at a distance of more than
three kos from the station of a salt agent or superintendent of chokies, or
from the place where the salt agent or superintendent may be.
VII. And it is hereby enacted, that if the darogah or person in charge
of any police thannah or station, receiving notice to attend at a seizure of
salt in store, as is above prescribed, shall not attend, or attending shall
refuse to act in aid of the seizure, or shall in any way wilfully frustrate the
object of the search and seizure, such darogah or other officer shall, on
.representation of the facts by the officers of the salt department, and on
conviction of the same before the magistrate of the district, besides being
dismissed from office, be liable to a fine equal to the amount of fine that
would have been leviable on the owners of the salt, if it had been seized
according to the information laid.
VIII. And it is hereby enacted, that whenever it shall be necessary to
break open any house, warehouse, or other place, to effect a seizure of
salt, the rules and precautions prescribed in Regulation XX. of 1817,
and Section X. Regulation VII. of 1799, of the Bengal code, for
breaking into a house for execution of process of distraint, shall always
be observed by the police officers in attendance; provided, however, that
the responsibility for the act, and the determination whether to require
the door to be broken open or not, shall rest with the officers of the salt
department onlv.

Persons deputed by
salt officers how to



Penalty for refusal or
neglect.


IX. And it is hereby enacted, that whenever a seizure of salt in storp