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The (Bengal) Embankment Act, 1855 Complete Act

State: Orissa

Year: 1855

.....the Collector shall thereupon proceed to value and make compensation for such huts, trees and crops, in the manner prescribed in Section 12 of this Act. Section 8 - Section 8 Clause 1. Application by land-holder to have a sluice made in public embankment - If any land-holder, farmer or cultivator be desirous of having a sluice made in any public embankment for the purpose of drainage or irrigation, he shall make an application in writing to the Collector of the district in which such embankment is situate. The application shall contain such particulars of the land to be drained or irrigated as may enable the officers of the Crown to judge of the advantage which may be derived from the work, and shall declare as regards an embankment maintained at the expense of the State, whether the applicant is willing to bear such part, not exceeding half of the cost thereof, as may be determined by the Provincial Government; and, as regards any other public embankment whether the applicant is willing to defray the whole or such part of the cost incidental to and attendant on, the proposed work, as may be determined as aforesaid. Clause 2. Officer in immediate charge to report on.....

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 9

Title: Recovery of Rent Due for Gas

State: Central

Year: 1857

If any person supplied with Gas, or any person to whom any meter of fitting shall have been let for hire by the said Company, the said Company may stop the Gas from entering the premises of such person, by cutting off the service-pipes, or by such means as the said Company shall think fit, and recover the rent due from such person, together with the expenses if cutting off the Gas, by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 10

Title: Power to Take Away Pipes when Supply of Gas Discontinued

State: Central

Year: 1857

In all cases in which the said Company are authorized to cut off and take away the supply of Gas from any house or building or premises under the provisions of this Act, the Company, their agents or workmen, after giving twenty-four hour's previous notice to the occupier, may enter into any such house, building, or premises, between the hours of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, and remove and carry away any pipe, meter, fittings, or other works, the property of the said Company.

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 12

Title: Penalty for Fraudulently Using Gas

State: Central

Year: 1857

Every person who shall lay, or cause to be laid, any pipe to communicate with any pipe belonging to the said Company, with out their consent, or shall fraudulently injure any such meter as aforesaid, or who, in case the Gas supplied by the said Company is not ascertained by meter, shall use any burner other than such as has been provided or approved of by the said Company, or of larger dimensions than he has contracted to pay, for, or shall keep the lights burning for a longer time than he has contracted to pay for, or shall otherwise improperly use or burn the Gas supplied to him by the said Company, shall forfeit to the said Company the sum of fifty rupees for every such offence, and also the sum of twenty rupees shall be used, or such pipe shall so remain, or such works or burner shall be so used, or such excess be so committed or continued, or such supply furnished ; and the said Company may take off the Gas from the house and premises of the person so offending, notwithstanding any contract which may have been previously entered into.

Oriental Gas Company 1857 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1857

.....19564, and in any town or place not within the jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts, in the same manner as damages are recoverable under this Act. SECTION 08: POWER TO ENTER BUILDINGS FOR ASCERTAINING QUANTITY OF GAS CONSUMED The Clerk, Engineer, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose by the said Company may, at all reasonable times, enter any buildings or place lighted with Gas supplied by the said Company, in order to inspect the meters, fittings, and works for regulating the supply of Gas, and for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of Gas consumed or supplied; and if any person hinder such officer as aforesaid from entering and making such inspection as aforesaid at any reasonable time; he shall, for every such offence, forfeit to the said Company a sum not exceeding fifty rupees. SECTION 09: RECOVERY OF RENT DUE FOR GAS If any person supplied with Gas, or any person to whom any meter or fitting shall have been let for hire by the said Company neglect to pay the rent due for the same to the said Company, the said Company may stop the Gas from entering the premises of such person, by cutting off the service-pipes, or by such means as the said Company shall.....

Howrah Offences Act, 1857 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1857

.....3 of 1884. Section 17 Pawnbrokers, etc., to report stolen property, pawnbrokers, etc., when to be deemed receivers of stolen goods Rep. by Ben. Act 3 of 1884. Section 18 Manufacture or possession of gunpowder Whoever manufactures gunpowder, or, without a license form the Magistrate, has in his possession in any house, shop, warehouse or other building, at any one time, a greater quantity of gunpowder than ten pounds, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees, and also to forfeit such gunpowder so manufactured or possessed, together with the vessel or receptacle in which it may be contained. Section 19 Licenses by Magistrate for sale and deposit of gunpowder, etc. The Magistrate may grant to any person a license of the sale or keeping in deposit of any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding fifty pounds on such conditions, and for such term not exceeding one year, as shall be specified in the license; and any person who shall be guilty of a breach of any of such conditions shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, and to forfeit all gunpowder so kept in deposit contrary thereto, and the vessels containing it, and also to forfeit his.....

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 1

Title: Power to Break Up Streets, Etc., Under Superintendence, and to Open Drains

State: Central

Year: 1857

In the Town of Calcutta and its environs and in any other town or place to which the provisions of this Act may hereafter be extended, by a law to be passed for that purpose the Oriental Gas Company Limited under such superintendence as is hereinafter specified may open and break up the soil and pavement of the several streets and bridges and may open and break up any sewers drains or tunnels within or under such streets and bridges and lay down and place within the same limits pipes conduits service pipes and other works and from time repair alter or remove the same and also make any sewers that may be necessary for carrying off the washings and waste liquids which may arise in the making of the Gas and for the purposes aforesaid may remove and use all earth and materials inland under such streets and bridges and they may in such streets erect any pillars lamps and other works and do all other acts which the said Company shall from time to time deem necessary for supplying Gas to the inhabitants of the said Town of Calcutta and its environs or other town or place as aforesaid doing as title damage as may be in the execution of the powers hereby granted and making compensation.....

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 50

Title: Provisions in Force Relating to Forgery to Extend to Bonds, Etc. Issued by Secretary of State in Council

State: Central

Year: 1858

All Provisions now in force in anywise relating to the Offence of forging or altering, or offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any East India Bond, with Intent to defraud, shall extend and be applicable to and in respect of any Bond, Debenture, or Security issued by the Secretary of State in Council of India under the Authority of this Act.

Government of India Act, 1858 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1858

.....were continued under such Government, in trust for Her Majesty, until Parliament should otherwise 'provide, subject to the Provisions of that Act and of other Acts of Parliament, and the Property and Rights in the said Act referred to are held by the said Company in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of the said Government: And whereas it is expedient that the said Territories should be governed by and in the Name of Her Majesty: 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, as follows; that is to 'say, Transfer of the Government of India to Her Majesty. SECTION 01: TERRITORIES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO BE VESTED IN HER MAJESTY AND POWERS TO BE EXERCISED IN HER NAME -The Government of the Territories now in the Possession or under the Government of the East India Company, and all Powers in relation to Government vested in or exercised by the said Company in trust for Her Majesty, shall cease to be vested in or exercised by the said Company; and all territories in the.....

The Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1859

THE TAMIL NADU DISTRICT POLICE ACT, 1859 The (Substituted by the Adaptation Order 1969) (Tamil Nadu) District Police Act, 1859 Act XXIV of 1859 An Act for the better regulation of the Police within the (Substituted by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1970) State of Tamil Nadu WHEREAS it is expedient to make the Police-force throughout the (Substituted by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Law Order 1970) [State of Tamil Nadu] a more efficient instrument (Omitted by Act, 1936 (Madras Act XXI of 1936)) * * * * for the prevention and detection of crime and to re-organize the Police force (Repealed by the Madras Hereditary Village-Offices Act, 1895 (Madras Act III of 1895)) * * * * It is enacted as follows " 1. Interpretation " The following words and expressions in this Act shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to say), "Magistrate" the word "Magistrate" shall include all persons, within their respective jurisdictions, exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate; "Superior Police" (Substituted by Tamil Nadu Act 21 of 1936) [the expression "Superior.....