entry of the vessel shall have been given da'y made in the Custom House of the port, and until order shall have been given for discharge of the cargo thereof as above provided, and it shall be the duty of every customs officer to size as contraband any goods which have been removed or put on board of any vessel in contra vention of the above provision, or which any attempt shall have been made to remove from or to put on board of any vessel in contravention of the above provision. And after entry of the vessel at the Custom House in due form such part of the cargo as may not be declared for re-exportation in the same vessel shall be sent to land and export cargo shall be laden on board according to the forms and rules that may be prescribed for the port by this act, or by order of the Gevernor in Council of the presidency of Bombay, and if an attempt be made to land or put on board goods or merchandize in contravention of the forms and rules so prescribed the goods shall be liable to seizure and confiscation XXXII. And it is hereby enacted, that there shall in every port of the Bombay presidency be one or more places appointed for the landing and shipment of goods, and goods shall not be landed at any other place without the special order in writing of the collector of customs for the port, and if any goods be landed, of an attempt be made to land any goods at any other than the said authorized places without such order they shall be seized and confiscated. or have been received by the said customs officer a Custom House permit or order for the shipment of the goods, and the goods on board of any boat that may so he alongside or be made fast to a vessel, it such goods be not covered by a Custom House pass ac companying them, or previously received by the customs office on board, the said vessel shall be liable to confiscation. XXXI. And it is hereby enacted, that if gools entered in the manifest of a vessel shall not be found on board that vessel, or if the quantity founi be short and the deficiency be not duly accounted for, or if goods sent out of the vessel be not landed at the Custom House, or at such other place as the collector of XL. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be customs shall have prescribed, the master shall be liable to a pe.brought to be passed through the Custom House either for impor. nalty not exceeding five hundred rupees for every missing or tation or exportation by sea, if the packages in which the same deficient package of unknown value, and for twice the amount may be contained shall be found not to correspond with the desof duty chargeable on the goods deficient and unaccounted for, cription of them given in the application for passing them through if the duty can be ascer ained. Provided however, that nothing the Custom House, or if the contents thereof be found not to bave herein contained shall be construed to prevent the Collector of been correctly described in regard to sort, quality, or if any goods customs from permiting at his discretion the master of any ves-not s ated in the application be found concealed in or mixed up sel to amend obvious erros or to supply omis ions from accident with the specified articles, all such packages with the whole of or inadvertence by furnishing au ameuded or supplemental the goods contained therein, shall be liable to confiscation. manifest. XLI. And it is hereby enacted, that if any person after goods have been landed and before they have been passed through the Custom House removes or attempts to remove them with the intention of defrauding the revenue, the goods shall be liable to confiscation unless it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the col lector of customs that the removal was not sanctioned by the owner or by any person having an interest in or power over the goods. XXXIX. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be sent from on board of any vessel having a customs officer on board for the purpose of being landed and passed for importation there shall be sent with each boat load or other separate despatch a boat note, specifying the number of packeges, and the marks and numbers or other description thereof, and such boat note shall be signed by an officer of the vessel and likewise by the customs officer on board, and if any imported goods be found in a boat proceeding to land from such a vessel without a boat note, or if being accompanied by a boat note they be round out of the proper track between the ship and the proper place of landing, the boat containing such goods may be detained by any officer of customs duly authorized by the collector, and unless the cause of deviation be explained to the satisfaction of the collector of customs, the goods shall be liable to confiscation. XXXIV. And it is hereby enaated, that when the Governor in council of the presidency of Bombay shall see fit to maintain at any post an establishment of officers to be sent on board of vessels to watch their anlading and lading, then after due noti fication shall have been given that such establishment is so men tianed at any port the collector of customs at that port shall have power at his discretion to send one or more officers of such es tablishment to remain on board of auy uessel in such port by night and by day until the vessel shall leave the port or it shall be otherwise ordered by the collector XLII. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be lawful for XXXIII. And it is hereby cnacted, that if the Governor in the collector of customs, whenever he shall see fit to require council shall see fit for the security of customs at any port to that goods brought by sea and stowed in bulk shall be weighed maintain special establishments of boats for the landing and r measured on board ship before being sent to land and to levy shipping of merchandize, or to license and register the cargo boats duty according to the result of such weighing or measurement. plying in any ports than after due notification thereof, it shall XLIII. And it is hereby enacted, that on application by the not be lawful for any person to convey goods to or from any exporter of any salt that has paid the ecise duty fixed by act No. vessel, in such port otherwise than in the boats so authorized XXVII. of 1957, a certificate shall be granted by the coland prescribed, except under special permit from the collector lector of customs at the place of export. under authority of of customs at the port, and any goods that may be found on board which certificate the quentity of salt specified therein shall be of other boats than those so authorized for the port shall be lia-landed at any other port of the said presidency of Bombay, ble to be seized by any officer of customs and shall be liable to and shall be passed from such port into the interior without the confiscation. the levy of any further duty ei ber of excise or of customs. XLIV And it is hereby enacted, that when a customs officer shal be sent on board of any vessel to superintend the "elivery of cargo, twenty days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, shall be allowed for the discharge of the import cargo of vessels not exceeding six hundred tons burthen, and thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, for the discharge of the import cargo of vessels exceeding that burthen, and the said periods shall be cal. culated from the day when the customs oflicer first went on board And if the whole cargo be not discharged by the expira tion of the above-mentioned periods, the master shall be charged with the wages of such officer, and other expenses for any further poriod that such officer may be detained on board. And if the owners, importers, or consignees do not bring their goods to land within the periods above fixed, it shall be the duty of the master XXXV. And it is hereby enacted that any master of such vessel at such port who shall refuse to receive such officer with one servant on board when such officer shall be so deputed as above provided, or shall not aff rd such officer and such servant suitable shelter and sleeping accommodation while on board, and so to do. likewise furnish them with a due allowance of fresh water if XLV. And it is hereby enacted, that when there shall be no necessary and with the means of cooking on board, shall be lia-customs officer sent aboard vessels discharging cargo, it shall be ble to fine nat exceeding the sum of one hundred rupees for each lawful for the collector of customs to fix a pe iod, not being les day during which such officer and servant shall not be received than twenty days, for the discharge thereof and clearance of the and provided with suitable shelter and accommodation. vessel inwards; and if any goods remain on board after the time so fixed or after the time allowed in the last preceding section of this Act, the co lector may order the same to be landed and werehoused for the security of the duties chargeable thereon and of any freight and primage and other demands that may be due thereon, giving his receipt to the Master for the same vided always, that in all cases it shall be lawful for the collector or other officer in charge of the Custom House, with the consent of the master of the vessel, to cause any packages to be brought on shore and to be deposited in the Government warehouses for the security of the duties and charges thereon, although twenty days may not have expired from the entry of such vessel; and in caso any goods brought to land from any vessel be not claimed and cleared from the Custom House within three months from the date of entry of the ship it which such goods were imported, it shall he competent to the collector to sell the same on account of the duties and other charges due thereon, and the balance remaining after deducting the said duties and charges shall be held in deposit and paid to the owner on application. XXXVI. And it is hereby enacted, that whenever a collector of customs shali see cause to direct that auy vessel shall be searched he shall issue his warrant or written order for such search addressed to any officer under his authority and upon production of such order the officer bearing it shall be compe tent to require any cabins, lockers, or bulkheads to be opened in his presence, and if they be not opened upon his requisition to break the same open, and any goods that may be found concealed, and that shall not be only accounted for to the sa tisfaction of the collector of customs shall bo liable to confisca tion and any master or person in charge of a vessel, who shall resist such officer or refuse to allow the vessel to be s arched when so ordered by the collector of customs, shall be liable upou conviction for every such offence to a fine of one thousan Tupees. XXXVI. And it is hereby enacted, that every master of a vessel who shall remove from such vessel or put ou board there of any goods, or cause or suffer any goods to be removed from thence or put on board thereof between sun-set and sun-rise or on any day when the Custom House is closed for business without leave in writing obtained from the collector of customs, shall be punished with a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. XXXVIII. And it is hereby enacted, that no cargo boat, Jaden with goods intended for exportation by sea shall make fast to or lie alongside of any vessel on board of which there shall be a customs officer stationed unless there shall be on board the boat, Pro XLVI. And it is hereby enacted, that when a customs officer shall be sent on board of any vessel discharging cargo, a further period of fifteen nays, Sundays and holidays excluded beyond the twenty days above specified, shall be allowed for puting on board export cargo if the vessel shall be not exceed six hundred tons burthen, and twenty days if it exceed that burthen, when the lading and unlading thereof shall continuous, and the master or com. mander shall in such case not be charged with the wages and expenses of the customs officer n board until after the expiration of such additional period. And if a vessel having discharged its import cargo, shall be laid, up, the customs officer on hoard shall certify that no goods remain on board except necessary stores and articles for use, and when a vessel so laid np shall be entered at the Custom House for receipt of export cargo a customs officer shall be sent on board, and if the said last mentioned officer shall certify that no goods are on board except as above excepted, twenty days exclusive of Sundays and holidays, as above, shall be a lowed from the date of such certificate for the lacing outwards of a vessel not exceeding six hundred tons, and thirty days for ves. sels exceeding that burthen, after which periods respectively the master shall be charged with the wages and expenses of the customs officer on board to the date of the vessel's sailing from the port. XLVII. And it is hereby enacted, that when upon application from the master of any vessel the customs officer shall be removed from on board thereof under the provision to that effect contained in the last preceding Section of this act, if the master of such ves sel shall be ore a customs officer have again been placed in such vessel, put on board of such vessel, or cause or suffer to be put en board of such vessel any goods whatever, such master shall be punished with a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, and the goods shall be liable to be re-landed for examination at the expence of the shippers upon requisition to that effect from the collector of customs. XLIX. And it is hereby enacted, that when a vessel having cleared out from any port shall put back from tress of whe her, or it shall from other cause be necessary that the cargo of a vessel that has cleared out shall be unshipped or relanded, a customs officer shall be sent to watch the vessel and take charge of the cargo during such relanding or remo val from on board, and the goods on board such vessel shall not be allowed to be taushipped or re exported free of duty by reason of the previous settlement of duty at the time of st export unless the goods shll be lodged in such place as shall be allowed by the collector of customs, and shall remain while on Jand, or while on board of any other vessel under spocial charge of the officers of customs until the time of re-export, and al charges attending such custody shall be borne by the exporter Provided however that in all cases of return to port after port clearance, on account of damage or for stress weather, it shal be lawful for the owner, or for the master to enter the vessel and land the cargo under the rules for the importation of goods, and the export duty shall in that case be refunded and the amoun paid in drawback be re laimed, and if goods on account of which drawback has been paid be not found on board the vessel, the master shall be liable to a fine not exceeding the entire value thereof unless he account for them to the satisfaction of the col lector of customs. L. And it is hereby enacted, that when goods shall be relanded before the lading of sny vessel is complete and before part clea rance has been granted, the duty levied upon such goods shall be returned to the exporter, bu no refund si all be made of duty paid on the export of any goods after port clearance shall have been granted for the vessel on which the goods were exported, unless the vessel shall have put back for stress of weather or for damage, and the goods shall have been relanded under the rule contained in the last preceding section of this act. LI. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Governor in Council to establish rules for the anchoring of the coasting and countpy craft of the British territories for the de. livery of manifests of the cargo of such vess. Is and for the landing of Goods therefrom, and shopping of goods therein, and that Whoever being in charge of any such craft shall knowingly cabtravene any such rule, shall be liable to a fine aut exceeding one hundred Rubees for each offence. LII. And it is hereby enacted, that pattamars, dhonies, botelos, and other small craft from the Ma dive or Laccadive islands, or from the Native ports of Kattywar, Cutch and Scinde, shall be treated in the ports of the Bomb y presidency like the coasting craft of the British territory, provided that they conform to such special regulations as to the place of anchoring and mode of landing and shipping goods as may be made by the Governor in Council of Bombay for such vessels in theseveral ports of Bumby presidency. 来 LIII. And it is hereby enacted, that no drawback shall be allowed on goods shipped on such native craft as are described in the last preceding section of this act. though the Custom House for re-exportation in the vessel inta which they may be transhipped. LIV. And it is hereby enacted, that goods exported in the same vessels if manifested for re-export, shall not be subject to import or export duty, and if any goods brought to any port in any vessel be transhipped in such port, they shall in all cases be subject to the same duty as if they had been lauded and passed " 10 Candies 20 40 60 80 100 150 200 250 300 350 ...... Not ex- ..... 60 ... 100 250 300 ....... 20 Candise 40 .... 350 XLVIII. And it is hereby enacted, that upon any goods li able to duty that may be passed through the Custom House for ....... 400 & upwards, 60 shipment, the application for which shall be presented after port clearance shall have been taken out double of the prescribed LVII. And it is hereby enacted, that in all cases in which unduty shall in all cases be levied, and if the goods be free or have der this act, goods are liable to confiscation, the collector of cus already paid import duty, or have been imported free under certoms of the place whore the goods may be shall be competent to tificate, five per cent, upon the market value shall be levied adjudge such confiscation, thereon, or if the same be imported goods entitled to drawback shall be forfeited, but no separate duty shall be levied on drawback goods. LVIII. And it is hereby enacted, that if any person in charge of a vessel shali have become liable to any fine ou account of any act or omission relating to customs, the collector of customs shall be competent, subject to the orders of the Governor in council of the preside cy of Bombay, to refuse port cleareuce to such vessel until the fine shall be discharged, LIX And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be lawful for any collector of customs, or other oficer who may be authorized to adjudicate customs cases if he shail decide that a seizure of goods made nuder the authority of this act was vexatious and unnecessary to adjudge damages to be paid to the proprietor by the customs officer who made such vexations seizure, bes des ordering the immediate release of the goods; and if the proprietor accept such damages no action shall thereafter lie against the officer of customs in any Court of Justice ou account of snch seizu e; and if such adjudicating ofheer shall decide that the seizure was warranted, but shall deem that the penalty of confis cation is unduly severe, it shall be lawful for him to mitigate the same to the extent of the levy of double duty; and if the said officer shall adjudge confiscation. it shall further be lawful for him to order that from the proceeds of the sale of the goods, a proportion not exceeding one-half shail be distributed in rewards amongst such officers as he shall deem entitled thereto, and iu such proportion as he may direct to each respectively. LX. And it is berely provided, that all officers of customs shail as heretofore be amenable to the civil courts of the presi dency or island of Bombay by action for damages on account of any executive ac s done in their official capacity at the suit of the parties injured by such acts provised, however, that no suit shall lie against a collector of customs or other officer for any judicial award in a matter of customs passed under the preced. ing section of this act. LXI. And it is hereby enacted, that whoever intentionally obstracts any officers in the exercise of any powers given by this act to such officer, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term or exceeding six montas, or une not exceeding one thousaud rupees, or both. LXII. And it is hereby enacted, that whoever, being an officer appointed under the authority of this Act, shall accept, or obtain, or attempt to obtain from any person any property as a considera. hon for doing or forbearing to do any oficial act, shall be punish d with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or fue, or both. LX0I And it is hereby enacted, that whoever, being an officer appointed under the authority of this act, practis s or attempts to practise any fraud for the purpose of injuring the cast ms revenue, or abets or connives at any such fraud, or at any attempt to practise any such fraud, shali be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or fine, or both. LXIV. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council of Bombay, by an order in council, to transfer any of the powers given to a collector of customs by this act to any other functionary, and to make any rules consistent with law for the carrying of this act into effect, and to estab ish such bunders and appoint such officers as he shall think fit, and to fix rates of wharfage and of rent to be paid fer goods deposited or suffered to lie in the godowns of the Custom House. 35 32 33 34 Rates of Duty to be charged on Goods imported by Sea into any Port of the Presidency of Bombay. Ditto, the produce of any other place,. Opium covered by a Pass, 20 Ditto not covere i by a Pass,. 21 Salt not covered by a Pass,..... Alum... Camphor,.......... Cassia,. Coffee,. Nutmegs aud Mace,... Coal Coke, Bricks, Chalk, Stones, (Marble and Wrought stones excepted,). ..... Books printed in the United Kingdom or in any British Possession,...... Foreign Book, Marine Stores, the produce or manufacture of the United Ditto ditto, the produce or manufacture of any other place Metals, wrought or unwrought, the produce, or manufacture ........... Tin, the produce of any other pace than the United King dom or any British Possession,.... Ditto, the produce of any other place or coantry, ...... .... SCHEDULE A .......... Pepper,..... Rattans,.. Wines and Liqueurs,. Spirits, consolidated Duty, including any duties levied ....... .... And the duty on spirits shall be rateably incre-sed as the strength exceeds London proof, and when impo.ted in hot-les, five quart bottles shall be deemed equal to the imperial gallon. When imported on British Free..... Tobacco,...... Which duty shall be the minimum Customs duty levied on Raw Tobacco and all preparations thereof in all the ports of the Bombay Presidency, but if at the rate of 5 per cent on the actual value, a higher duty than 1 r. 8 annas should be leviable on any preparation of Tobacco, the duty per md,! shall be levied advalorem at that rate if imported on iritish bottoms, and at 10 per cent, on Foreign bottoms. And the Customs duty laid upon Tobacco shall be allowed in setting for the special duty levied on the import of this article intoj the Island of Bombay, which special duty shall be levied at the rate of 9 rupees for the Ind an maund. 36 All articles not included in the above enumeration,....... Ditto,. Ditto, 3 per cent... 3 per cent.. 6 per cent.. 3 per cent. 6 per cent. 10 per cent 2 per cent ......... ... .... 7 per cent.... 15 per cent....... io per cent...... 10 per cent... 9 as. per imperial gallon.. ....... When imported on Free. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditio. Ditto. 3 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 12 per cent. 6 per cent. 12 per cent. 20 per cent, 4 per cent. 8 per cent, 1 rs. 2 annas per md. of 80 Tolahs to the seer. 7 per cent, 14 per cent. 24 rs. pr sr. of 80 Tolas scer..8as. pr md of 80 Tos. pr sr 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent.. 15 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 15 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. 20 per cent. I re. per, impe ial galon 1 r. 8 as, pr md. of 80 Tolas pr. seerir.8 as. pr m of80Tol pr sr 7 per cent. And if the Collector of customs shall see reason to doubt weither the goods liable to a different rate of duty according to the place of their production come from the country from which they are declare to come by the importer it shall be lawful for the Collector of customs to all on the importer to furnih evidence as to the plice nf manufacture or production. and if such evidence shall not satisfy the said Collector of the truth of the declaration, the goods shall be charged with the highest rate of duty, subject always to an appeal to the Governor in Council at Bombay. And upon the re-export by seaof goods imported, excepting Opium and salt, all and goods of the growth, production or manufacture of the continent of dia provided the re-export be made with n two years, of the date of import as per Custom House Register, and the goods be identified to the satisfaction of the Collector of customs, there shall be retained one-tight of the amount of duty, levied and the remainder shall be repaid or drawback. But no exporter of imported goods shall be entitled to drawback unless the dran back be claimed at the time of re-export nor shall any payment be made of drawback unless the amount claimed be demanded within one year from the date of entry of the goods for re-export in the Custom House Registers. SCHEDULE B Rates of duty to be charged on Goods exported by Sea from any Port or Place in the Presidency of Bombay. 7 Cotton Wool exported to Europe, the United States of Ame rica or any British Possession in America... 5TH JANUARY 1828. The following Act is passed by the Hon'ble the president of the Council of India Counci 3 on the 5th Jannuary 1818, with the assent of the Right Hon'bie the Governor Ceneral of India, which has been read and recorded. 1. It is hereby enacted, that from the 1st day of February 1838. Salt shall not be manufactured at any place within the ter ritories subject to the authority of the Lieutenant Governor of the north Western Provinces, the districts beyond the right bank of the Jumna river excepted, unless the person couducting the manufacture shall before preparing works for the production of such Salt give notice in writing to the collector of the district in which the place of manufacture may be situated, of his intention to manufacture Salt therein. Tobacco,.... All country articles not enumerated or named above,........ 3 per cent,...... cated. V. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall be the duty of every party under direct engagements with Government for the Land Revenue, either as a proprietor or farmer, and of every proprie. BY THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR. Exported on British Free,. FORT WL IAM, GENERAL DEPARTMENT, 20TH DECEMBER, 1837. Captain J. J. R. Bowman, assumed the duties of 24 assistant to Free. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto | Free, ..... S9 as- pr. md. of 80 Tollas to the seer ....... 9 as per md. of 80 Tolas per seer r. 2 as. pr md of 80 Tollas the master attendant of this port, on the 11th instant, under the appointment made by the Right Hon'ble the Governor of Bengal, the 18th October last. And upon the re-export to Europe, the United States of America or to any British possession in America, or from any other port of the Bombay P esinency, of Cotton that has been importe under certificate of the pament of the duty specified in this schedule, provided that he re-export be made in British bottoms within two years from the date of such certificate, and the amount be clafmed within one year from the date of re-export as per Custom House Registers, the whole amount of export duty levied at the first place of export shall be refunded, The Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal is pleased to grant to the Reverend J. Bell, district chaplain at Mhow, two month's leave of absence, in extention of the leave granted to him on the 18th August last. Ir. 8 as pr. md. of 80 Tolas to the sr 11. And it is hereby enacted, that upon receiving such notice as is prescribed in the preceding Section, the collector of the district shall, by an order under his seal and signature, depute one or more officers, who shall be stationed for such time as the said collector shall think proper at every such place of manufacture, and shall have power to take account of the Salt manufactured and stored, and to prevent the removal of the Salt uutil the Govern ment duty thereon shall have been paid. II. And it is hereby enacted, that every proprietor of Salt Works within the north western provinces, at which an officer shall be stationed as above provided, shall pay to the collector the wages of one officer at the rate of 10 Rs. per mensem, for so long as such officer shall be stetained for the supervision of the Works; and if the collector hall see fit to employ more than oue officer to watch any set of Works, or to employ ono officer receiving larger allowances than 10 Rs. per month; the wages of such extra officers, or the extra wages of such one officer, shall be defrayed by Government. IV. And it is hereby enacted, that if any Salt Works be found producing Salt, of which notice has not been given in the manner prescribed by the first Section of this Act, such Works shall be FOR WILLIAM, LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT THE 22D JANUARY, 1838 destroyed, and any Salt stored thereat shall be seized and confis--The Hon'ble the President of the Council of India in Council has been pleased to appoint Mr. C. H. Cameron to be a Member and President of the India Law Commission. ROSS D. MANGLES. Offg. Secy to the Govt. of India. CIVIL APPOINTMENTS, &c. Exported on Foreign Bottoms. tor of Lukhiraj Lands, upon whose Zemindaree, Farm, or Lukkiraj Estate, there shall be any Works producing Salt, of which Works notice has not been given in the manner prescribed by the first Section of this Act, to give notice of the same in writing to the nearest public officer of Police or Land Revenue within ten days from the date on which the Works were first prepared, and every such proprietor, farmer, or proprietor of Lubiraj estate, who shall knowingly omit to give such notice, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 500 Rs for every such Salt Works VI And it is hereby enacted, that the magistrate or Joint magistrate of any city or district shall be competent to receive and determine all charges on account of things or done in contravention of this Act. VII. And it is hereby enacted, that whover offers any resis. tance to any officer appointed under the authority of this Act, nished in like manner as if the resistance had been offered to the in the exercise ofthe lawful powers of such officer, shall be pu ordinary process of a collector. ACT NO. 111, OF 1838, I. And it is hereby enacted, that Act No. Vill. of 1837, be repealed. 11. And it is hereby enacted, that whenever the Governor in Council of Fort Saint George shall appoint a Joint criminal Judge of Cochin, and shall give to such Joint criminal Judge jurishdiction over the Districts of Anjengo and Changancherry, such Joint criminal Judge shall exercise, within his jurisdiction, all the powers of Joint magistrate as defined in the Madras Regulations. 29TH DECEMBER, 1837.-The Honorable the President in Council has been pleased to appoint Mr. G. A. C. Plowden to act as deputy secretary to the Governments of India and Bengal in the judicial and revenue departments, until further orders. This appointment will take effect from the 9th instant. The Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal has been pleased to direct the collector of Pooree to assume charge of the Post Office at that station from the 1st proximo. DECEMBER, 27TH.-Mr. H. M. Pigou has been permitted to resign the East India Company's civil service from the 30th instant, The following Errata having been discovered in the Polymetrical tables of distances prepared under orders of the Governor General in Council, and printed at the Official Gazette Press for regulating the levy of postage, the same are notified for general information, and the several Post Office authorities throughout India are directed to make the necessary corrections in their official copies and to cause the same to the made in those of the officers subordinate to them and to levy the Postaze according to such corrected distances. The alterations are to take effect from the 1st proximo. ERRATA. From Allahabad, to Calcutta. for 504 read 498; from Allynugur to Subathoo, for 761 read 661; from Barrackpore, to Allahabad, for 504 read 482: from ditto, to Arrah, for 401 read 365; from ditto, to Chuprah, for 400 read 364; from ditto, to Gya, for 309 read 273; from Burdwan, to Dinapore, for 331 read 231; from ditto, to Gya, for 264 read 214; from ditto. to Napan), for 517 read 465; from ditto to Patn, for 324 read 274; from Calcutta, to Arrah, for 401 read 381; from ditto. to Gya, for 309 read 289, from ditto, to Tirhoot, for 401 read 392; from Dum Dum, to Alla habad. for 512 read 497; from ditto, to Arrab, for 409 read 370; from di to, to Chuprah, for 408 read 369; from ditto, to Gya, for 317 read 288; from Futtypore, to Lucknow, for 623 read 103; from Hooghly, to Allahabad, for 506 read 470; from ditto, to Arrah, for 403 read 253: from ditto, to Chuprah, for 402 read 352; from ditto, to Gya, for 311 read :61 Supplemental table add from Burhie, to Gya, read 42. season Mr. E. T. Trevor has been permitted to proceed to Jessore, and prosecute his study of the Oriental Languages at that station. 10TH JANUAR 1838-Mr G. J Siddons, of the civil service, embarked for England on board the ship Madagaxas, which ship was left by the riot at sea on the 7th instant. Table B. From Bimlipatam Nundydroog, for 29 read 592; from Jug. ther presidency for gumpetta, to Sedashagur, for 565 read 765. Table C. From Madras to Mominabad, for 602 to read 51. 3D JAN, 1838-Mr. William R. Kennaway, of the civil service, is permitted to proceed to Europe on Furlough, in the present Messrs D. C Smyth, H. P. Russell and Robert Trotter, of the civil service, embarked for England on board the ship" Ernaad," which ship was left by the Pilot at sea on the 5th instant. The Honorable the President in Council is pleased to appoint Mr John F. M Reid to be Post Master General. salaries to officers and other act or provision of the Law, as 11. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no such rule so to be established as aforesaid shall have any force or validity until the same shall have been approved by the Court of Directors of the said Company, subject to the control of the commissioners for the affairs of India, in like manner as is provided by the said act of the third and reign of His late Majesty King William the His Honor in council is also pleased to appoint Mr. Assistant Surgeon Samuel Davis, Post Master at Patua. nor to cases of offt. III. And be it furiber enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Court of Direc tors, subject to such control as aforesaid, to direct the refunding, by an officer or servant of the said Company, or by the representatives of any such officer or servants, of the whole or any part of the salary or allow. ance which he or they may have received under or by virtue of any such rules so to be the said Court, subject to such control as aforesaid, that the perestablished as aforesaid, if it shall appear to mission to such officer or servant to quit the presidency to which he shall beton: hath been improperly granted or obtained; and An Act to repeal the Prohibition of the payment of the salaries shall direct such officer or servants, or the representatives of such such sum as the said court, subject to such control as aforesaid, and allowances of the East India Company's officers during officer or servants to refund, shall be a debt due to the said Comtheir absence from their respective stations in India. pany, and shall be recoverable by them in any court in like [12th July 1837. Whereas under and by virtue of an act passed in the thirty-manner as any debt may now or hereafter shall be recovered by third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for continuing in the East 33 G. 3. c. 52. India Company for a further term the possession of the British territories in India, together with their exclusive trade, under certain limitations; for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same; for appropriating to certain uses the revenues and profits of the said Company; and for making provisions for the good order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and of another act passed in the third and fourth, intituled An Act for effecting an arrange. 34 W4 c. 85 ment with the East India Company, and for the better Government of His viajesty's Indian territories, till the thirtieth day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty four, it is enacted, that if any Governor or other officer whatever in the service of the said Company shall leave the presidency to which he shall belong, other than in the known actual service of the said Company, the salary and allow ances appertaining to his oflice shall not be paid or payable during his absence to any agent or other person for his use, and in the event of his not returning, or of his coming to Europe, his sala. ry and allowances shall be deemed to have ceased on the day of his leaving the said territories or the presidency to which he may have belonged:" And whereas it is further provided in the said last-mentioned act, that it shall be lawful for the said Company to make such payment as is now by law permitted to be made to the representatives of their officers or servants, who, having left their stations intending to return thereto, shall die during their absence and it is expedient that such provision of the Law should be altered in manner herein after mentioned; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much and such part of parts of the said two acts passed respectively in the thirty-third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third and in the third and fourth years of the reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, and of The following Act of Parliament passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, is published for general information. CHAP. XLVII. So much of the Provisions of the re cited acts as prohibita the payment of No rule valid till approved by Court of Directors, subject to the control of Commissioners for Affairs of India. Power for the Court of Directors,subject to aforesaid control to direct the refund. ing of any part of Mr. Joseph Simpson assumed charge of office of surveyor of the allowance paid shipping to the East India Company on the 1st instant. under any of said fourth years of the The Honorable the President in council having considered the terms of Sections I. and I of the above act, and also of Para graph 3 of a d spatch from the Honorable Court of Directors, is of opinion that the exemptiou granted by that act from the provision of the act 33rd George III which prohibited the payment of any salary to servants of the Honorable Company after the date of their departure from the presi. dency to which they might be attached, may be granted to servants of either Presidency the Members of Government excepted, who may have quitted or who may quit the same in consequence of sickness under the rules established by the Governor General in Council, with the sanction of the Honorable Court or who may proceed to another pres dency not more distant than their own for the purpose of embarking for Europe. But no new ru es on this subject can be established hereafter to take effect before their approval by the Honorable Court. Para 3. The ab. are The President in Council deeming it necessary therefore to declare the rules that have been passed under such sanction and are still in force, and the modifications made therein by the ap plication to them of the act in question, directs the following rules to be published together with the act I. Victoria. Cap. 47, for general information. Civil Servants-I. Civil servants proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius or the Island of St. Helena, or to any place within the limits of the East India Company's charter, with leave granted by the Governments to which they are respectively at. ached, under medical certificates countersigned by a Member of the Medical Board at the presidency, shall from the date of the pilot leaving the vessel in which they embark to the date of their return provided the period of absence do not exceed two years, draw the allowances of their respective offices subject to the following deductions, If the salary exceeds 2,000 rupees per mensem, one-sixth for one year and for the second year one-fourth. |
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