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Indian Tolls Act, 1851 Section 4

Title: Exemptions from Payment of Toll

State: Central

Year: 1851

No tolls shall be paid for the passage{ The words " of troops and military stores and equipages on their march or " rep.by Act 2 of 1901, s.8 and Sch.}of Police-officers on duty, or of any person or property in their custody, but no other exemption from payment of the toll levied under this Act shall be allowed.

Indian Tolls Act, 1851 Section 5

Title: Assistance of Collectors by Police-officers

State: Central

Year: 1851

All Police-officers shall be bound to assist the toll-collectors when required, in the execution of this Act; and, for that purpose, shall have the same power which they have in the exercise of their common police-duties.

Indian Tolls Act, 1851 Complete Act

Title: Indian Tolls Act, 1851

State: Central

Year: 1851

Preamble1 - INDIAN TOLLS ACT, 1851 Section1 - [Repealed] Section1A - Extent Section2 - Power to cause levy of tolls on roads and bridges within certain rates, and to appoint collectors. Collectors responsibilities Section3 - Their powers for recovery of toll Section4 - Exemptions from payment of toll Section5 - Assistance of collectors by Police-officers Section6 - Penalty for offences under Act. Compensation to person aggrieved. Saving of his right to sue Section7 - Exhibition of table of tolls, and statement of penalties Section8 - Application of proceeds of tolls ScheduleI - SCHEDULE ONE

Oriental Gas Company Act ,1857 Section 27

Title: Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1857

The following words and expressions used 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) :--- Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number. Words importing the masculine gender shall include females. The word "person" shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or sole. The word "street" shall include any square, court, or alley, highway, lane, road, thoroughfare, or public passage or place. The word "Magistrate" shall include any Magistrate of Police, and any joint Magistrate or other person lawfully exercising the powers of Magistrate, acting at or for the place or district where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such Magistrate arises.

Opium Act, 1857 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1857

OPIUM ACT, 1857 OPIUM ACT, 1857 An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium 2 [* *]. Preamble.-Whereas the existing law relating to the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium on account of Government is in some respects inconsistent with the practice which now obtains under agreement between the Opium Agents and the cultivators, and it is expedient that such in- consistency should be removed; And whereas it is also expedient3[* * *] that the laws for preventing the illicit cultivation of the poppy, and for regulating the cultivation of the poppy and the manufacture of opium on account of Government, should be consolidated and amended; It is enacted as follows:- This Act has been declared to be in force throughout the former Province of Bengal and the former North-Western Provinces except the Scheduled Districts by the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874 (15 of 1874),Sections 6and7. It has also been declared to be in force in the Santhal Parganaa (now in Bihar) by Regn. III of 1872, Section 3 (1) and Schedule; and in Oudh (now in Uttar Pradesh), subject to certain modifications by Section 3 (e) of.....

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.....

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 15

Title: Arrest

State: Central

Year: 1859

(1) Whenever the Judge of the said Court thinks it necessary for obtaining evidence that any person should be arrested, he may issue a warrant for his arrest, and may, for the purpose of effecting the arrest, authorize any officer (subject, nevertheless, to any general or special instructions from the Central Government) to enter any vessel. (2) Any officer so authorized may, for the purpose of enforcing the entry, call to his aid any officers of Police or Customs, or any other persons, and may seize and detain the vessel for such time as is reasonably necessary to effect the arrest; and every such officer or other person shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, section 186 (3) No person shall be detained under this section for more than forty-eight hours.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1859

.....by the said c[Port Officer], or such other person as the c[Central Government] shall direct, before a Court constituted under the provisions of this Act. SECTION 03: APPOINTMENT OF JUDGE - The6[Central Government] shall appoint a fit penon to be Judge of the laid Court SECTION 04: APPOINTMENT OF PROSECUTOR - The8[Central Government] shall appoint such penon as8[it] may think proper to conduct the proceedings before the Court at prosecutor on the part of Government. SECTION 05: TRIAL TO BE HELD BEFORE JUDGE ARID JURY. - Every trial under this Act shall be held before the said Judge and a jury composed of two merchants of Calcutta, a master of a merchantship lying in the Port of Calcutta, and a pilot of not less than twenty years' service. SECTION 06: LISTS OF MERCHANTS AND PILOTS LIABLE TO SERVE ON JURY - The Judge shall cause to be prepared and shall keep two separate lists, one containing the names of merchants, the other containing the names of pilots, liable to serve on such jury. The names in each list shall be arranged in alphabetical order, and the place of abode and quality or business of each pennon named shall be stated. SECTION 07: NOTICE TO.....

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.....