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HOWRAH OFFENCES ACT, 1857 HOWRAH OFFENCES ACT, 1857 21 of 1857 10th July, 1857 An Act to make better provision for the order and good government of the station of Howrah. WHEREAS Acts have been passed for regulating the police and for the conservancy and improvement of the town of Calcutta and of the other presidency-towns; and whereas large portions of the station of Howrah are not less populous than parts of the said town, and it will conduce to the order and good government of the said station that some of the provisions of the said Acts, with certain necessary modifications, should be extended to the said station; It is enacted as follows: Section 1 Cases under this Act by whom to be tried Whoever is charged with having committed any of the offences mentioned in this Act, within the limits of the said 11. Words "suburbs, or" rep. by Act 16 of 1874. * * * * station, as described in the schedule hereunto annexed, may be tried for any such offence by the Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the offence is alleged to have been committed; and, on conviction, may be sentenced by such Magistrate to the punishment hereinafter prescribed for the offence.