The North-Western Provinces Code: Consisting of the Regulations and Local Acts in Force in the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William, with a Chronological Table of the Bengal Regulations

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Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877 - 412 pages
 

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Page 232 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 232 - ... members, shall be dissolved ; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.
Page 318 - Act shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
Page 107 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 284 - Charge shall cause a notice of sale to be placed in a newspaper of general circulation published in the judicial district wherein the seizure was made. The sale shall not occur in less than 10 days from the date of the publication of the notice. At the discretion of the Supervisor in Charge, based upon which method In his sound judgment is most advantageous to the best Interests of the United States...
Page 29 - ... shall be taken in arms, in open hostility to the British Government, or in the act of opposing, by force of arms, the authority of the same, or in the actual commission of any overt act of rebellion against the state, or...
Page 230 - ... as the Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare in this behalf.
Page 87 - Hindus themselves, and in their eyes unlawful and wicked. The measures hitherto adopted to discourage and prevent such acts have failed of success, and the governor-general in council is deeply impressed with the conviction that the abuses in question cannot be effectually put an end to without abolishing the practice altogether. Actuated by these considerations the governorgeneral in council, without intending to depart from one of the first and most...
Page 87 - Preamble. is revolting to the feelings of human nature ; it is nowhere enjoined by the religion of the Hindus as an imperative duty ; on the contrary, a life of purity and retirement...
Page 8 - ... that at the expiration of the term of the settlement no alteration will be made in the assessment which they have respectively engaged to pay, but that they and their heirs and lawful successors will be allowed to hold their estates at such assessment...

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