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 XXVI.

[A.D. 1850.

Notice to be given
of all applications for
extension of this Act.

Government to de-
cide upon the appli-
cation, and to publish
their order.

Act to come into
force on publication of
the order.

Appointment of com-
missioners for putting
Act in force.

Preparation of local
rules.

ment to remove com-
missioners and fill up
vacancies.

under the Government of the East-India Company, that the inhabitants
of any town or suburb, not within the town of Calcutta, Madras, or
Bombay, are desirous of making better provision for making, repairing,
cleaning, lighting, or watching any public streets, roads, drains, or tanks,
or for the prevention of nuisances, or for improving the said town or
suburb in any other manner, the said Governor, or Governor in Council, or
Lieutenant-Governor, may order this Act to be put in force within such
town or suburb.
III. Whenever any application shall be made to the Government for
putting this Act in force in any town or surburb, notice thereof shall be
given in the Government Gazette of the presidency or place, and also by
proclamation within such town or suburb, setting forth the purposes of the
application, and giving reasonable time for all inhabitants of such town or
suburb, who are minded to declare themselves for or against the adoption
of this Act therein, for such purposes, or any of them.
IV. The Governor, or Governor in Council, or Lieutenant-Governor,
shall take all such declarations into due consideration, and after the time
allowed for receiving the same, shall make a hnal order, which shall be
published in the Government Gazette, and also notified by proclamation
within such town or suburb, to the effect that the application appears, or
does not appear, to be according to the wishes of the inhabitants, either
wholly, or in respect to one or more of the purposes in respect of which it
is made; and if the whole or any part of it shall appear to be according
to the wishes of the inhabitants, then that this Act shall be thenceforth in
force in such town or suburb, for such purposes only as shall be mentioned
in the order.
V. Whenever any such order shall be made and published as aforesaid,
this Act shall come into force within the said town or suburb for such
purposes as are mentioned in the order, and the making and publication
of the said order shall be conclusive evidence that the provisions of this
Act have been complied with, and that it is thenceforth in force within
the said town or suburb, for such purposes as are mentioned in the
order.
4 1. Whenever this Act shall come into force in any town or suburb,
the Governor, or Governor in Council, or Lieutenant-Governor, shall
appoint the magistrate and such number of the inhabitants thereof as to
him shall appear necessary, to be commissioners for putting the Act in
force, and shall give authority to them to prepare rules for more effectually
accomplishing the purposes tor which they are appointed ; which rules,
when approved by the Governor, or Governor in Council, or Lieutenant-
Governor, shall be of the same force within the said town or suburb, until
altered or rescinded as hereinafter provided, as if they were inserted in
this Act. And the said Governor, or Governor in Council, or Lieutenant-
Governor, may remove any of the commissioners and appoint others, and
may till up vacancies occurring among the commissioners in such manner
as may seem to him ht.