property and effects, real and personal, which they shall have possessed within its territories at the time when the crime of which they may be convicted shall have been committed.

IV. The Governor in Council shall not be precluded by this regulation from causing persons charged with any of the offences described in the present regulation to be brought to trial at any time before the ordinary Courts of Judicature, or before any special court appointed for the trial of such offences under [Regulation VI., 1802, Repealed by (Madras) Act II of 1869,] instead of causing such persons to be tried by courts martial, in any cases wherein the latter mode of trial shall not appear to be indispensably necessary.

A. D. 1816. REGULATION IX.

A REGULATION for reducing into one Regulation certain Rules which have been passed regarding the Office of the Zillah Magistrate, for modifying and defining his Powers, and for transferring the Office of Zillah Magistrate from the Judge to the Collector of the Zillah.

Passed on the 13th September 1816.

Preamble and Section II. Repealed by (Madras) Act II.

of 1869.

III. to V. Repealed by Act X. of 1872.

VI. to XLII. Repealed by Act XVII of 1862.

XLIII. The Zillah magistrates and their assistants are Magistrates and their

hereby declared amenable to the Zillah Court in the jurisdiction of which they may reside or carry on the public business committed to their charge, by a civil prosecution, for any act or acts done in their official capacity in opposition to any established regulation.

XLIV. to XLVII. Repealed by Act XVII. of 1862.

assistants amenable to the Zillah Court for acts done in their official саpacity.

Preamble

Heads of villages to
Communicate to

A REGULATION for the establishment of a general System of Police throughout the Territories subject to the Government of Fort St. George.

Passed on the 13th September 1816.

IT being expedient that a system of police, founded chiefly upon the ancient usages of the country, should be established throughout the territories subject to the Government of Fort St. George, and that the powers and authorities of the several classes of persons to be entrusted with the performance of police duties should be defined, the Right Honourable the Governor in Council has been pleased to enact the following rules.

II to VII. Repealed by Act XVII. of 1862.

VIII. Heads of villages shall reciprocally communicate each other informa- any information which they may receive of offences comsubjects mitted, or of gangs of robbers, or of suspicious persons havconnected with the ing entered or taken refuge in each other's villages, and shall co-operate in all things for the apprehension of offenders and the general security of the country.

pece of their respective villages.

Heads of villages to

IX. Heads of villages shall report to the police officer resort to the police of the district the arrival in their villages of strangers of

officer of the dis

trict the arrival of suspicious appearance, and all information which they may suspicious persons in their respective be able to collect concerning such persons.

villages.

punishment in certain cases.

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Feads of villages au- X. First. In cases of a trivial nature, such as abusive thorized to inflict language and inconsiderable assaults or affrays, heads of villages shall have authority, on a verbal examination, either to dismiss the parties, or if the offence charged shall be proved to have been committed by the persons accused of it and shall appear deserving of punishment, to confine the Liation of punish- offending parties in the village choultry for a time not exceeding twelve hours; or if the offending parties shall be of any of the lower castes of the people, on whom it may not be improper to inflict so degrading a punishment, to order them to be put in the stocks for a time not exceeding six hours.

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Second. Heads of villages shall report to the police officer of the district all cases in which they shall have exercised the power of punishment granted to them by the first clause of this section, but it shall not be necessary for them to report the cases in which they may dismiss parties.

XI. First. Where heads of villages may have credible information of stolen property being concealed, and there may be reason to apprehend that it will be made away with unless prompt measures be taken to secure it, they shall cause search to be made, and the property, if found, to be secured and forwarded with the offender to the Police officer of the district. If the place of concealment be a dwellinghouse, the search shall be made only between sunrise and sunset.

XII. Repealed by Act III. of 1857.

bodies.

XIII. First. The head of the village, on receiving in- Heads of villages how formation of the discovery of the body of a person supposed discovery of dead to proceed on the to have been murdered, shall immediately proceed to the spot with the kurnum and two or three respectable inhabitants, in whose presence he shall examine every person who may be able to afford any information regarding the discovery of the body and its appearance when discovered, or regarding the murder of deceased, if the body should have been deprived of life by murder.

Second. The head of the village, on receiving information of the discovery, shall also, without delay, send notice of it to the police officer of the district, and if the police officer shall arrive at the spot in time to inquire into the circumstances under which the body may have been discovered, the inquiry shall be conducted under his superintendence.

Third. If the police officer should not appear to conduct the inquiry, the head of the village shall cause the kurnum to take down in writing the evidence of the persons who may be examined, and to record any necessary particulars respecting the appearance of the body, and to frame a report of the whole proceedings. The head of the village shall attest such report with his signature, and having pro

Heads of villages to

send notice of the discovery of dead bodies to the police

officer of the district.

Heads of villages 1 w

to proceed if he police officer sho 1 not appear to c duct the inquir

Registers of persons confined by heads

cured it to be attested by two or more of the inhabitants who may be present at the investigation and by the kurnum, he shall forward it to the police officer of the district with the evidence he may have taken.

XIV. Kurnums shall keep registers of persons confined of villages to be by the heads of villages under Section X. of the regulation, kept by kurnums, and these registers shall be transmitted monthly by the monthly to the heads of villages to the police officers of their respective police officer of the districts, to be forwarded to the magistrate.

and transmitted

district.

[Form of register.]-Rescinded by Section II., Regulation IX., 1828.

XV. to XLVI. Repealed by Act XVII. of 1862.

XLVII. The magistrates shall be charged with the maintenance of the peace within their respective zillahs, and whenever their establishments may be insufficient to resist banditti or other disturbers of the public peace, they shall apply for assistance to the nearest military station, as directed in Section X., Regulation III., 1810.

XLVIII. to LVI. Repealed by Act XVII. of 1862.

Preamble.

A.D. 1819. REGULATION II.

A REGULATION for the Confinement of State Prisoners.
Passed on the 4th March 1819.

WHEREAS reasons of state policy occasionally render it ne-
cessary to place under personal restraint individuals against
whom there may not be sufficient ground to institute any
judicial proceeding, or when such proceeding may not be
adapted to the nature of the case, or may for other reasons
be unadvisable or improper; and whereas it is fit that, in
every case of the nature herein referred to, the determin-
ation to be taken should proceed immediately from the
authority of the Governor in Council; and whereas the ends
of justice require that, when it may be determined that any
person shall be placed under personal restraint otherwise

than in pursuance of some judicial proceeding, the grounds of such determination should from time to time come under revision, and the person affected thereby should at all times be allowed freely to bring to the notice of the Governor in Council all circumstances relating either to the supposed grounds of such determination, or to the manner in which it may be executed; and whereas the ends of justice also require, that due attention be paid to the health of every state prisoner confined under this regulation, and that suitable provision be made for his support, according to his rank in life, and to his own wants and those of his family. And whereas the reasons above declared sometimes render it necessary that the estates and lands of zemindars, talookdars, and others, situated within the territories dependent on the Presidency of Fort St. George, should be attached and placed under the temporary management of the revenue authorities, without having recourse to any judicial proceeding; and whereas it is desirable to make such legal provisions as may secure from injury the just rights and interests of individuals whose estates may be so attached under the direct authority of Government-the Governor in Council has enacted the following rules, which are to take effect throughout the provinces immediately subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George, from the date on which they may be promulgated.

II. First. When the reason stated in the preamble of this regulation may seem to the Governor in Council to require that an individual should be placed under personal restraint, without any immediate view to ulterior proceedings of a judicial nature, a warrant of commitment under the authority of the Governor in Council, and under the hand of the Chief Secretary, or of one of the secretaries to Government, shall be issued to the officer in whose custody such person is to be placed.

Mode of proceeding for placing indivi. duals under restraint as state pri

soners.

be issued.

Such warrant to be

Second. The warrant of commitment shall be according Form of warrant to to the form prescribed in the Appendix to this regulation. Third. The warrant of commitment shall be sufficient authority for the detention of any state prisoner in any fortress, gaol, or other place within the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George.

sufficient authority for the detention of any state prisoner.