Compilations

JUDICIAL, REVENUE c‡

AND

MISCELLANEOUS CODE

CONTAINING ALL THE UNREPEALED ENACTMENTS OF
THE LOCAL AND IMPERIAL LEGISLATURES,

From 1802 to 31st March 1873,

IN FORCE IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY.

IN FOUR BOOKS.

BOOK II.

JUDICIAL-CRIMINAL.

COMPILED BY'

S. SOMASOONDRUM CHETTY,

SECOND VERNACULAR CLERK OF THE CHENGLEPUT COLLECTOR'S OFFICE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF

BOOK II. JUDICIAL-CRIMINAL.

Years.

1808.

Regu.

REGULATIONS.

VII-A Regulation for declaring the Powers of the Governor in

Council to provide for the immediate punishment of certain

Offence against the State, by the sentence of Courts Martial..

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

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XI.-A Regulation for the establishment of a general System of

Police throughout the Territories subject to the Govern-

ment of Fort St. George

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II.-A Regulation for the Confinement of State Prisoners.

II.-A Regulation for giving greater publicity to certain Clauses of

the Act 53 Geo. III., c. 155

I-A Regulation for extending the Jurisdiction of Registrars, Sud-

der Ameens, and District Moonsifs, and for the more effec-

tual checking of abuses by District Moonsifs

IV.-A Regulation for giving greater efficiency to the system of

Police established in the Provinces eubordinate to the Pre-

sidency of Fort St. George

1.-A Regulation for declaring the Practice of Suttee, or of burn-

ing or burying alive the Widows of Hindoos, illegal, and

punishable by the Criminal Courts

XIV. A Regulation for extending such part of the provisions of Sec-

tion LXVII. of the Act 4 Geo. IV., c. 81, as relates to the

penalties prescribed for purchasing clothes and other neces-

saries from Soldiers, throughout the provinces subordinate

to the presidency of Fort St. George

IX.-An Act to empower Commanding Officers of Military stations

out of British territories to administer oaths within the limits

'XXII.-An Act for the removal of the Collectorate of Madras from the

jurisdiction of the Judges and Magistrates of Chingleput