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SECTION 04: OFFICERS AMENABLE TO CIVIL COURTS - The Opium Agents, and their sub- ordinate officers of every description, are declared amenable to the Civil Courts for all acts done by them in their official capacity, except as otherwise herein provided. Bar of suit without previous application to agent for redress. But no suit shall be instituted against an Agent, or any subordinate officer, for any act done in his official capacity, unless the person who shall consider himself aggrieved by the act of such Agent or officer shall have first made application for redress to the Agent himself. In the event of such person not being satisfied with the order which the Agent may pass upon his application, it shall then be competent to him either to lay his case by petition before 10 [the Central Government], or at once to seek red less in the Civil Court,