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the Court of Nizamut Adawlut, and that the Officer so appointed in the territory of Cachar be placed, in Revenue cases, under the control and superintendence of the Sudder Board of Revenue; and that such control and superintendence of the Sudder Court and Board shall be exercised in conformity with such instructions, as the said functionaries may have received or may hereafter receive from the Government of Fort William in Bengal.

BENGAL AND AGRA.—JURISDICTION OF

SESSIONS’ JUDGE.

Act No. VII. of 1835.

[Passed on the 8th June, 1835.

The Governor of Bengal and Agra may transfer the duties connected with criminal justice from any Commissioner of Circuit to any Session Judge, and define the powers to be exercised by each respectively.

Be it enacted, that it shall be competent to the Governors of the Presidencies of Fort William in Bengal and of Agra respectively, by an order under the signature of the Secretary to Government in the Judicial Department, to transfer any part or the whole of the duties connected with criminal justice, from any Commissioner of Circuit to any Session Judge, and to define the powers which shall be exercised by each respectively.

BENGAL.—DECREES FOR RENT.

Act No. VIII. of 1835.

[Passed on the 8th June, 1835.

Sales under decrees for arrears of rent to be made in future by the Collectors of Land Revenue. Certain parts of section 15, Regultiaon 7, 1799, and of c. 3, section 23, Regulation 7, 1822, rescinded. Collectors may sell Land in satisfaction of Summary Decrees for Rent.

2. All Sales for Arrears of Rent or Revenue, under Clause 7, Section 15, or Clause 6, Section 23, or Section 25, Regulation 7, 1799, to be public, and ten days’ notice to be given.

Repealed by Act VIII., 1865, of the Bengal Council.

Act X., 1859, is a new Rent Law for Bengal.