Portion of fine may

aforesaid, shall be liable, upon conviction before a magistrate, to pay a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to undergo imprisonment of either description, as defined in the Indian Penal Code, for any term not exceeding two months.

XVI. The magistrate trying the case may direct any porbe paid to an infor- tion of any fine which shall be levied under either of the two last preceding sections to be paid to an informer.

mer.

Notice of penalties

under Sections 14

outside the jail,

XVII. The superintendent shall cause to be affixed, in a and 15 to be affixed conspicuous place outside the jail, a notice, in English and in the vernacular language of the district, in which the jail is situated, setting forth the penalties that will be incurred by persons committing any offence in contravention of Sections 14 and 15 of this Act.

Government may con

fer the powers of

ficers other than

XVIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to punishment created confer upon any person, other than a superintendent of a jail, by this Act on of who may be placed in charge of convicts, the whole or any part of the powers of punishment vested in the superintendent of a jail by Sections 9, 11, and 12 of this Act; and the provisions of Section 13 shall be applicable to all such officers.

superintendents of jails.

Persons of all classes

XIX. The penal provisions of this Act shall apply to all ishment under this persons of whatever nationality.

amenable to pun

Act. Short title.

XX. This Act my be caked "The Madras Jails Act, 1869."

A. D. 1869. ACT VII.

AN ACT to continue Act No. XX. of 1859 (An Act for the suppression of outrages in the District of Malabar in the Presidency of Fort Saint George).

Passed on the 3rd December 1869.

WHEREAS Act No. XX. of 1859 will expire on the 31st day of December 1869, and whereas it is expedient to continue the said Act beyond that period; it is enacted as follows:I. Act No. XX. of 1859 (An Act for the suppression of outrages in the District of Malabar, in the Presidency of Fort Saint George) shall continue in force from the passing of this Act until the Governor of Fort Saint George in

Council shall, by an order published in the Fort Saint
George Gazette, declare otherwise.

II. Section 13 of the said Act is hereby repealed.
III. This Act may be called "The Moplah Outrages
Act continuance Act."

Section 13 of that
Act repealed.
Short title.

A. D. 1872. ACT I.

AN ACT to amend Act XXXI, of 1859 (An Act for the better regulation of the Police within the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George).

Passed on the 30th May 1872.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend Act XXIV. of 1859 Preamble,
(An Act for the better regulation of the Police within the
territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St. George); it
is hereby enacted as follows:-

I. Section 48 of the said Act shall be read as if it contained the following words after the word "town" in the said section "or other place to which this section shall,

:

by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, be specially extended by Government."

Amendment of Section 48 of Act XXIV of 1859.

II. No sentence or order passed by, or proceeding had Indemnity clause. before any magistrate, or act done by any police officer, under the provisions of the said section, either by reason of any notification of the Governor of Fort St. George in Council, issued otherwise than under the authority of Section 13 of Madras Act I. of 1866 (An Act to repeal Madras Act IV. of 1865, and to make provision for the administration of Military Cantonments in the Presidency of Fort St. George), declaring the places to which the said Section 48 of Act XXIV. of 1859 shall be extended, or by reason of any notification to the like effect issued by any magistrate of a district, shall be deemed to be or to have been invalid; and no suit shall lie in any court in respect of any such sentence, order, proceeding or act merely on the ground that the said Governor of Fort St. George in Council, or such magistrate of a district, was not empowered by law to issue such notification.

SCHEDULE IV.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1st.-The entries in the 2nd and 6th columns of the schedule, headed respectively "Offence" and "Punishment under the Indian Penal Code," are not intended as definitions of the offences and punishments described in the several corresponding sections of the Indian Penal Code, or even as abstracts of those sections, but merely as references to the subject of the section, the number of which is given