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 (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

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ACT XXIX.

[A.D. 1838.

be recorded by salt
agent.

Inferior ofRcers to
report to superior police
ofHcers likewise.



boats and vessels for
contraband salt.

tiesof Reg. X. 1819,

may be imprisoned in
criminal gaol, if fines
not paid.

in any house, warehouse, or other place, shall be made by a salt agent or
superintendent of chokies, the circumstances which attended the seizure
shall be recorded in an oHicial proceeding, to be placed on record in the
ofRce.

X. And it is hereby enacted, that if the seizure be made by an officer
of the salt department, other than an agent or superintendent of chokies,
such officer shall report the circumstances within twenty-four hours to his
official superior; and the police officer in attendance shall likewise report
the occurrences at the time of seizure to his official superior.
XI. And it is hereby enacted, that no salt found in store in any house
or warehouse shall be deemed to be contraband, or shall be liable to
seizure, unless when the search is made there shall be found more thereof
than one maund or Indian mun, and the owner or person in charge shall
be unable to account satisfactorily for the manner of its being in his
possession.

XII. And it is hereby enacted, that whenever salt shall be seized as
contraband, because unaccompanied by any rowannah or other protecting
document, the person or persons conveying, or having in charge the same,
shall be apprehended; and all ofHcers who are empowered to seize salt
under the provisions of Regulation X. 1819, of the Bengal code, shall
likewise be competent to arrest the parties found with or having the salt
in possession.

XIII. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be lawful for the salt agents
and superintendents of chokies and other ofHcers who may be duly
empowered to seize salt, to stop and search any boats or vessels of a build
adapted for sea navigation, that may be found within the limits described
in Section XXXIII. of this Act; and if salt shall be found thereon not
accompanied by the necessary rowannah or other protecting document, to
detain the vessel with the crew thereof and to take them for adjudication
of the case to the nearest accessible station of an ofHcer empowered to
adjudicate cases of contravention of the salt law.

XIV. And it is hereby enacted, in modiHcation of Section XXXVI.
Regulation X. of 1819, of the Bengal code, that if any person shall be
found in the act of conveying salt without rowannah or other protecting
document, exceeding in quantity Hve seers, of eighty tolas to the seer, within
the tract of country in Bengal or Orissa, wherein the transportation of salt
is prohibited unless so protected, or if several persons be found carrying
salt so unprotected, in gangs or companies, which salt shall exceed in the''
whole quantity Hve seers for each person in such gang or company, every
such person shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by Regulation XJ
of 1819, aforesaid, and by this Act, for the illegal possession and trans-
portation of salt.


Modified by
Sec. li. Act III.
1851.

XV. And it is hereby enacted, in modiHcation of Section CXXI. of
Regulation X. 1819, aforesaid, that any person or persons who may be
convicted of smuggling salt without rowannah, singly or in gang, and sen-