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A.D. 1838.]
ACT XXX.
75
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quantity of salt proposed to be confiscated shall not exceed twenty maunds,
or the fine adjudicated shall not exceed fifty rupees, that the judgment of
any salt agent or superintendent of chokies, or of any other officer vested
by Government with like jurisdiction in such cases, shall be final in all
cases wherein the salt adjudged to be confiscated shall not exceed eighty
maunds, and the fine imposed upon the defendant, or any one of several
defendants, shall not exceed 400 rupees; provided, however, that every
such judgment may, under Section CXVII. of the said Regulation, be
brought by petition before the Board of M727? and be
reversed or amended by that authority..
XXXII. And it is hereby enacted, in modification of Section CXIV. when decision of
Regulation X. 1819, of the Bengal code, that the zillah and city judges gpecL^ea^o^Sud
shall pass final judgment in all cases referred to them for adjudication der Court,
when the quantity of salt to be confiscated shall exceed eighty maunds, or
the fine imposed shall exceed 400 rupees; provided, however, that there
shall in all such cases be an appeal open to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut,
under the rules for the admission of special appeals in that court, upon any
point of law which may be ruled by a zillah or city judge in any such
judgment.
XXXIII. And it is hereby enacted, that the penalties of this Act shall Extent of the ope-
take effect only within the tract of country guarded by salt chokies in the
manner prescribed in Section XXXVI. of Regulation X. 1819, of the
Bengal code, and within which the transportation of salt not belonging to
Government, without a rowannah, or special pass from the Board of (7^-
OpzMTrz, is not lawful; and it is hereby declared that such
tract shall not extend, within the Delta of the Ganges and Megna rivers,
beyond the line of the reach of the tides in the rivers communicating with
the Bay of Bengal as taken at spring tides in the dry season ; nor eastward
of the Megna, north of the river Goomtee; nor westward of the river
Hooghly, beyond a line drawn from a point on that river distant one mile
from the northern end of the town of Nyasurai, and to the north thereof
to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Guttaul, and
, thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Midna-
pore, and thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of Huldi-
pookur in Singbhoom, so as to include each of those towns respectively.
A.D. 1838.* ACT XXX.
PASSED ?Ao z'Ae of fAo CozzzzczY of JWm
o% ^Ao 19^A 1838.
1. IT is hereby enacted, that Sections II. and XIV. Regulation XXXVI. ModiRcations ofprc-
1793, the provisions of which were extended by Regulation XXVIII. of vums enactments,
* Provision is made by Act XI. 1851, for the deposit and custody of register-books of
ofhces established under this Act. <
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ACT XXX.
75
)
quantity of salt proposed to be confiscated shall not exceed twenty maunds,
or the fine adjudicated shall not exceed fifty rupees, that the judgment of
any salt agent or superintendent of chokies, or of any other officer vested
by Government with like jurisdiction in such cases, shall be final in all
cases wherein the salt adjudged to be confiscated shall not exceed eighty
maunds, and the fine imposed upon the defendant, or any one of several
defendants, shall not exceed 400 rupees; provided, however, that every
such judgment may, under Section CXVII. of the said Regulation, be
brought by petition before the Board of M727? and be
reversed or amended by that authority..
XXXII. And it is hereby enacted, in modification of Section CXIV. when decision of
Regulation X. 1819, of the Bengal code, that the zillah and city judges gpecL^ea^o^Sud
shall pass final judgment in all cases referred to them for adjudication der Court,
when the quantity of salt to be confiscated shall exceed eighty maunds, or
the fine imposed shall exceed 400 rupees; provided, however, that there
shall in all such cases be an appeal open to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut,
under the rules for the admission of special appeals in that court, upon any
point of law which may be ruled by a zillah or city judge in any such
judgment.
XXXIII. And it is hereby enacted, that the penalties of this Act shall Extent of the ope-
take effect only within the tract of country guarded by salt chokies in the
manner prescribed in Section XXXVI. of Regulation X. 1819, of the
Bengal code, and within which the transportation of salt not belonging to
Government, without a rowannah, or special pass from the Board of (7^-
OpzMTrz, is not lawful; and it is hereby declared that such
tract shall not extend, within the Delta of the Ganges and Megna rivers,
beyond the line of the reach of the tides in the rivers communicating with
the Bay of Bengal as taken at spring tides in the dry season ; nor eastward
of the Megna, north of the river Goomtee; nor westward of the river
Hooghly, beyond a line drawn from a point on that river distant one mile
from the northern end of the town of Nyasurai, and to the north thereof
to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Guttaul, and
, thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Midna-
pore, and thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of Huldi-
pookur in Singbhoom, so as to include each of those towns respectively.
A.D. 1838.* ACT XXX.
PASSED ?Ao z'Ae of fAo CozzzzczY of JWm
o% ^Ao 19^A 1838.
1. IT is hereby enacted, that Sections II. and XIV. Regulation XXXVI. ModiRcations ofprc-
1793, the provisions of which were extended by Regulation XXVIII. of vums enactments,
* Provision is made by Act XI. 1851, for the deposit and custody of register-books of
ofhces established under this Act. <
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