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ACT XXIII.
[A.D. 1839.
Thuggee may be tried
in other ziilahs than
Soldiers sentenced to
dismissal may be im-
prisoned with or with-
out labour.
be no increase made thereby in any particular of the rates prescribed in
the said Schedules (A) and (B), and likewise to fix the time when the
levy shall commence to be made at such modified rates, and to cancel
or modify any order and notice so issued, by further similar order and
notice ; and the said revised schedules of rates shall, for so long* as may be
so ordered and notified, be of the same effect and validity as the schedules
annexed to the said Act.
A.D. 1839.* ACT XVIII.
PASSED Aj/ 2*Ac 7A)720227Y2AA Me 7kY322A?22/ q/ Mt? 6722T2C2/ o/* 7232/222 277 67?2T2C27,
0% Me 15M JTTy, 1839.
IT is hereby enacted, that any person accused of the offence of murder
by Thuggee, or of the offence of unlawfully and knowingly receiving
or buying property stolen or plundered by Thuggee, may be tried by
any court which would have been competent to try him if his offence had
been committed within the zillah where that court sits, anything contained
in any Regulation or Regulations to the contrary notwithstanding.
* The provisions of this Act are extended to dacoity by Act XXIV. 1843.
A.D. 1839. ACT XXIII.*
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1839.
IT is hereby declared and enacted, that in all cases in which, by a
general order of the Governor-General of India in Council, dated the
24th of February, in the year of our Lord 1835, it is made competent
for courts-martial to sentence soldiers of the native army in the service of
the East-India Company to the punishment of dismissal from such service,
it is and shall be lawful to sentence such soldiers to be imprisoned with or
without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years, if the sentence
be pronounced by a general court-martial; or not exceeding one year, if
the sentence be pronounced by a garrison or line court-martial; or not
* The provisions of this Act, as well as those of Acts II. 1840, and XXVIII. 1841, may
perhaps be held to be superseded by the Articles of War in Act XIX. 1847.
See Acts
XVI-11. 1843,
X. 1847, and
111.1848.
See Acts
II. 1840, and
XXVIII. 1841.
ACT XXIII.
[A.D. 1839.
Thuggee may be tried
in other ziilahs than
Soldiers sentenced to
dismissal may be im-
prisoned with or with-
out labour.
be no increase made thereby in any particular of the rates prescribed in
the said Schedules (A) and (B), and likewise to fix the time when the
levy shall commence to be made at such modified rates, and to cancel
or modify any order and notice so issued, by further similar order and
notice ; and the said revised schedules of rates shall, for so long* as may be
so ordered and notified, be of the same effect and validity as the schedules
annexed to the said Act.
A.D. 1839.* ACT XVIII.
PASSED Aj/ 2*Ac 7A)720227Y2AA Me 7kY322A?22/ q/ Mt? 6722T2C2/ o/* 7232/222 277 67?2T2C27,
0% Me 15M JTTy, 1839.
IT is hereby enacted, that any person accused of the offence of murder
by Thuggee, or of the offence of unlawfully and knowingly receiving
or buying property stolen or plundered by Thuggee, may be tried by
any court which would have been competent to try him if his offence had
been committed within the zillah where that court sits, anything contained
in any Regulation or Regulations to the contrary notwithstanding.
* The provisions of this Act are extended to dacoity by Act XXIV. 1843.
A.D. 1839. ACT XXIII.*
AN ACT yb7' %?2%Ao7'2Z273g /S'c72/2V22Y3 q/* 7772^7*332772772^72/, 22'22*A 07* 2P3/A2722/ 77227*2/
Z0A0227-, Ay 6^27227*/3-772227*/222/, 273 007*^22273 022303 2 PASSED Ay Me T/0720227'22AA
Mo 7b'032&722f 27/ Mo (70227203^ 27/* 7227222 273 672272027, 072 Mo 237*2/ /Sqy/0772Ao7*,
1839.
IT is hereby declared and enacted, that in all cases in which, by a
general order of the Governor-General of India in Council, dated the
24th of February, in the year of our Lord 1835, it is made competent
for courts-martial to sentence soldiers of the native army in the service of
the East-India Company to the punishment of dismissal from such service,
it is and shall be lawful to sentence such soldiers to be imprisoned with or
without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years, if the sentence
be pronounced by a general court-martial; or not exceeding one year, if
the sentence be pronounced by a garrison or line court-martial; or not
* The provisions of this Act, as well as those of Acts II. 1840, and XXVIII. 1841, may
perhaps be held to be superseded by the Articles of War in Act XIX. 1847.
See Acts
XVI-11. 1843,
X. 1847, and
111.1848.
See Acts
II. 1840, and
XXVIII. 1841.