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BY THE PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL.

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FORT WILLIAM LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT, FEBRUARY 18 1839. — The following Act is passed by the Hon'ble the President of the Conncil of India in Council on the 18th February 1839, with the assent of the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General of India, which has been read and recorded.

Ordered, that the Act be promulgated for general information.
ACT No. III OF 1839.

1. It is hereby enacted and declared, that within the British territories under the Government of the East India Company. no person whatever is or shall he, by reason of place of birth or by reason of descent, in any proceeding whatever connected with arrears of exactions of rent, excepted from the jurisdiction of the Revenue Courts, any thing in Act No XI of 1826 contained not. withstanding.

II. And it is hereby enacted, that no such proceeding which may have been instituted before the passing of this Act in any Buch Court, and to decree which may have been passed before the passing of this Act in any such proceeding by any such Court, shall be treated as invalid by reason of the place or birth or by reason of the descent of any party to such proceeding or to such decree.

III. And it is hereby enacted, that within the said Territories no person whatever, shall, by reason of place of birth, or by rea. Bon of descent, be in any civil proceeding whatever connected with arrears or exactions of rent excepted from the jurisdiction of Lue courts of the moonsiffs.

H. T. PRINSEP,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.

MARCH 18.-The following Act is passed by the Honorable the President of the Council of India in Council, on the 18th March, 1839, with the assent of the Right Honorable the Governor General of India, which has been read and recorded.

Ordered that the Act be promulgated for general information:

ACT No IV OF 1839

I. It is hereby enacted, that if any person shall, within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore and Malacca, steal the whole or any part of any growing tree, sapling or shrub, or any underwood, or the whole or any part of any pale, post or stile, or any growing cultivated plant, root, fruit, or vegetable production, or shall unlawfully and maliciously commit any damage, injury, or spoil to, or upon upon any real or personal property whatsoever of a private nature, every such offender being convicted thereof before a Court of Quarter Session, shal, for the first offence, forfeit and pay over and above the amount of the injury done, such sum of money, not exceeding two hundred rupees as to the Court of quarter session shall seem meet, and if any person convicted shali after words be guilty of any of the said offences, and shall be convicted thereof in like manner, every,such offender shall, for every such subsequent offence, be imprisoned with or without hard labor for such term not exceeding six calendar months, as the Court of Quarter Session shall think fit.

II And it is hereby enacted, that every sum of money which shall be forfeited for the amount of any injury done (such amount in each case to be assessed by the Court of Quarter Session, but not to exceed two hundred rupees,) shall be paid to the party aggrieved, if known, except when such party shall have been examined in proof of the offence, Provided always, that when several persons shall join in the commission of the same offence, and shall, on conviction thereof, each be adjudged to for feit a sum equivalent to the amount of the injury done, every such case no further sum shall be paid to the party aggrieved, than that which shall be forfeited by one of such offenders only.

III. And it is hereby enacted, that in every case of conviction under this Act, when the sum which shall be forfeited for the amount of the injury done, or which shall be imposed as a penal. ty by the said Court of Quarter Session, shall not be paid, either immediately after the conviction, or within such period as the said court shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the said court to commit the offender to prisou, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned with hard labor, ac. cording to the discretion of the said court, for any term not exceeding two calendar months, when the amount of the sum forferited or of the penalty imposed, or both (as the case may be) together with the costs, shall not exceed fifty rupees, and for any term not exceeding four calendar months, when the amount, with costs, shall exceed fifty rupees, but shall not exceed one hundred rupees; and for any term not exceeding six calendar months, in any other case; the commitment to be determinable

in each of the case aforesaid, upon payment of the amount and

costs.

IV. And it is hereby enacted, that in case any person con. victed of any offeuce, by virtue of this Act, shall have paid the sum adjudged to be paid, together with the costs under such conviction, or shall have suffered the imprisonment awarded for non-payment thereof, such person shall be released from all further or other proceedings for the same cause.

V. And it is hereby enacted, that every punishment and forfeiture by this Act imposed on any person maliciously committing any offence shall equally apply and be enforced, whether the offence shall have been committed from malice conceived against the owner of the property in respect of which it shall be commited or otherwise.

VI. And it is hereby enacted, that where the stealing of any property is by this Act punishable either of every offence or for the first and subsequent offences, any person who shall receive any such property knowing the same lawfully come by, shall, on conviction thereof, in like manner as the principal offender, be liable for every first and subsequent offence of receiving to the same forfeiture and punishment to which a person guilty of a first or subsequent offence of stealing is by this Act made liable.

VI). And it is hereby enacted, that the court of quarter session established by the Letters, Patent establishing the court of judicature of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore and Malacca, bearing date the 27th day of November, 1826, shall sit for the purpose of hearing and determining matters made offenders by this Act at each station of the said settlements not less frequently than once in fourteen days. Provided always, that no court shall be holden excepting in the presence of one of the judges of the court of judicature; and that no Justice of the peace being a Proprietor or rent of a spice plantation or otherwise directly interested in the enforcement of the provisions of the Act, shail sit and have a deliberative voice in such court of quarter session when held at a station where such Justice may be so interested. in medical charge of the civil station of Jorehaut, vice Mr. AssisMARCH 20TH-Mr. Assistant Surgeon Charles Griffiths is placed tant Surgeon Wood appointed to Nowgong.

2d subaltern, artillery Oude auxiliary force, is appointed to be 1st Subaltern, and to remain in command of that force, vice Cap. tain O. Baker resigned.

CAMP, AT BUSSEE, MARCH 14TH.-Lieutenant Charles Boulton,

MARCH 21.-Mr. J. P. Grant has this day resumed charge of the office of Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative, Judicial and Revenue Departments.

F. MILLETT,

Offig. Secy, to the Govt. of India.

BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL FOR
THE N. W. P.

GENERAL DEPARTMENT, CAMP, DEHLEE, FEBRUARY 12.-Judicial and Revenue-Lieutenant J S Banks was, on the 19th ultimo, posted by the commissioner of the Saugor division as junior assistant in the district of Saugor.

FEBRUARY 15-Mr. C Lindsay to be magistrate and collector of Mynpoory. Mr. Lindsay will continue to officiate as civil and session judge of Seharunpore, till he is relieved by Mr. Bacon, ou his return to that station.

Mr C Gubbins to be magistrate and collector of Goorgaon Mr. C Gubbins will proceed to assume charge of his office at Goorgaon, and officiate as magistrate and collector of that dis trict, pending the departure of Mr. EF Tyler for Europe.

Mr. MR Gubbins to be joint magistrate and deputy collector of Rohtuck. Mr. M R Gubbins will proceed to assume charge of his office at Robtuck, on being relieved by Mr. C Gubbins; and officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector of that district, pending the departure of Mr. E F Tyler for Europe.

The foregoing appointments will have effect from the date on which the pilot may leave at sea the ship on which Mr. E. F. Tyler has taken his passage to Europe.

Judicial-Mr. MJ Tierney to officiate as civil and sessions judge of Ally Ghur, till further Orders.

Jadicial and Revenue.- Mr. N HE Prowett, to officiate as magistrate and collector of Boolundshubur, till further Orders. lector at Bijnore, till further Orders. Revenue.-Mr J A Craigie to officiate as special deputy col

MC W Kinlock to be special deputy collector at Meerut,

Mr H Unwin to be special deputy collector at Boolundshubar Judicial and Revenue.-Mr. JH Batten to be a senior as sistant to the commissioner of Kumaon- to be stationed in Ku maon Proper.

ta make over oharge of the current duties of the civil court to the principal sudder ameeu. Reverend

CAMP K RN UL, PPBNUARY 28.-Ecclesiastical-The R Everest chaplain at Dehlee on medical certificate, from the st March to the Ist November uext, for the purpose of proceed

Captain H Huddlestone, of the 7th regiment native infantry, to be a senior Assistant to the commissioner of Kumaon-to being to the bills. stationed in Garhwal.

Revenue.-Lieutenant J R Western, of engineers, 'to superin tend the works connected with the Nujjufgurh Jheel, in the Delhi territory. Lieutenant Western will relieve Captain

F. CURRIE,

Ofy. Secy. to the Govr. Geni, N. W. P.

Baker of the above duty, as soon as he has finished the work on BY THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF BENGAL. which he is employed in the political department,

RESOLUTION. Read a letter from the Agent at Sangor, dated the 26th December last, forwarding abstracts of the Jubbulpore sessions of thug trials for 1837.

Judicial and Revenue.-Captain W. Stewart, of the 22d regiment native infantry, Fort adjutant at Chunar, to be snperin tendent of the familily domains of the Rajah of Benares under the provisions of Regulation VII. of 1828. Captain Stewart is "In order that the public may be made acquainted with the invested with the powers of a principal sudder ameeu and a de-result of the measures adopted for the suppression of the crime puty collector, to be exercised in the performance of the duties of of thuggee -The Right Honorable the Governor General of India the office of superintendent, as described in the aforesaid regula. has been pleased to resolve, that the subjoined extract from a tion. letter from the agent to the Governor General in the Saugor ani Nerbud a territories dated 26th December last, shall be publish ed for general information.

Lieutenant S. A. Abbott, assistant revenue surveyor in Cawnpoor, from 10th to the 19th February, 1839, on his private affairs.

JUDICIAL. DEPARTMENT, CAMP, KURNAUL, FEBRUARY 28 1839-The Right Hon'ble the Governor General for the North Western Provinces, having had under his consideration a report from the sessions judge of Mynpoory, submitted by the Court of Nizamut Adawlut at Allahabad, on a charge" of frand in surreptiously tak ing public money from the treasury and of illegally making use of the same," preferred against Bulde Pershaud, late treasurer of the judge's court at Mynpoory, which has led to his conviction at the sessions; and being of opinion that Buldeo Pershand is unworthy of further confidence, has declared him disqualified from Again being employed in any public situation of trust or responsibility.

GENERAL DEPARTMENT, CAMP, Delhi, peb. 19.-Revenue - Mr. E. H. C. Monckton to be special deputy collector in Zillah Burdwan.

Judicial and Revenue Mr. C. Raikes to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector of Shahjehanpore.

FEB. 20. Mr. R. B Thornhill to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector of Budaon.

CAMP, BAROTAH, FEB. 22.-General.-Mr. C. Macsween, Secretary to the Governor General for the North Western Provinces, in the Judicial Revenue and General Department, reported his return to Bengal on board the ship Thomas Grenville, on the 7th instant.

CAMP, BUR-KE CHOKEE, FEB. 23.-Doctor J Ranken, civil sur geon and post master of Dehlee, to succeed to the duties. as connected with the North Western Provinces of the oflice of agent for post office enquiries, to which Captain Taylor was appointed by the orders of the Hon'ble the President in Council. dated the 27th June 1838.

Extracts from a letter from the Agent to Governor General Saugor and Nerbudda territories, dated 26th December, 1838. 2. "The entire number of cases committed for trial was 57,two of these commitments, Nos. 20 and 29 were however annulled, and the number of trials in consequence was 55,-of the trials, 25 were supplements to those held by my predecessors-10 were on charges of murders that had not formed the subject of a preceding trial, one No. 37, involved tw counts, viz., a charge for a particular murder, and 2dly, the general one of having be longed to a gang of thugs under Act XXX. of 1836, and 9 were restricted entirely to the general charge.

8. Agreeably to the number of prisoners in each commitment, 180 persons stood convicted for trial at the sessions, but as sere. ral of the prisoners were committed in more than one case, the actual number of individuals for trial was 121, and their irais terminated as follows, viz.

Persons

until it may be safe to release on security.. Acquittal but ordered to give security, Deceased after commitment, Commitment annulled,..

Total Lel

Of the prisoners capitally sentenced six were convicted as jemadars, six as Bhurtotes or stranglers and one as a Shumsea er holder of hands-those transported for life were proved to have been concerned in the murders charged to them, and those impri soned for life were convicted of having belonged to a gang of Thugs.

CAMP. SUMBHUL KA, FEBRUARY 25.-General -The leave of absence, for one month, grauted to Mr. F O. Wells, account ant North Western Provinces, under Orders of the 12th January Inst, is to commence from the 1st proximo. For the period between the date of Mr. Wells leaving Agra and the 1st proxied, and six were transported, twenty-three others confessed mo he is considered to be on duty, under the Orders of the Governor General.

Judicial and Revenue-Lieutenant W Hore, of the 18th regi ment native infautry, to be a junior assistant under the commis sioner of the Sangor division. This appointment will have effect from the 13th instant, the day on which Lieutenant Hore was ap pointed in the Political Department to be an assistant to the agent to the Governor General in the Saugor and Nerbuda territories,

Judicial.-Mr. H. Swetenham, civil and sessions judge of Furruckabad on his private affairs, for one month from the 14th of the current month, Mr. Swetenham's having, in anticipation, mode over charge of the current duties of the civil court to Mr. Mercer, the principal sudder ameen, is sanctioned.

Mr. G. P. Thompson civil and sessions judge of Goruckpore, on medical certificate, for eight months to visit the Hills. Mr. Thompson is authorised to make over charge of the current duties of the civil court to the principal sudder ameen.

The evidence brought forward on the trials consisted of the testimony of approvers the examination of bodies of persons mas sacred by the prisoners, and confessions before me at the tral or before the officiating general superintendent and his assistants. Inclusive of the deceased Sheikh Daood before a luded to, tea of the convicted thugs pleaded guilty on their trial to the charges preferred against them, and of these, three were capitally parish before the officiating general superintendent, and of them three were sentenced to death, eighteen to transportation, and two kɔ imprisonment for life, and nine more made confessions before the assistants to the general superintendent, of whom five wes transported and four imprisoned for life, and it thus appears that 42 of the prisoners committed for trial had acknowledged their connection with the profession followed by them, in the presence of an European officer "

Ordered, that the foregoing resolution be pub'ished for genemi information, in the Calcutta and Delhi Gazettes and Agra Uk

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T H. MODOCK.

Offg. Scy. to Govt. of India, with the Gour. Geni, Camp at Mudeepore, the 11th February 1839.

JUDICIAL AND REVENUE DEPARTMENT PEBRUARY 7, 1839.—Mr. Assistant Surgeon J. Esdaile has been appointed to the medical duties of the civil station of Hooghly, vice Dr. Wise.

FEBRUARY 12-Moulvie Syed Sudder Ool Hossein, sudder ameen of Sylhet, has been appointed principal sudder ameen at Rungpore, vice Jouab Allee.

Baboo Sham Ram, moonsiff of Lushkerpore, in Sylhet, has bera appointed sudder ameen of that district, vice Syed Sudder Oo! Hossein promoted.

Mr. A. Speirs, officiating civil and sessions judge of Azimgurh, Cazee Russool Buksh, sudder ameen of East Burdenn, d for two weeks, on his private affairs-to commence from the been appointed principal sudder ameen of that district, vice date on which he may quit the station. Mr. Speirs is authorized Cazee Mahomed Mah dismissed.

Opender Chunder Bhuttacharjee, moonsiff of Singhea, in Jes Sore, has been appointed sudder ameen of east Burdwan, vice Cazee Rusvool Buksh promoted.

Moulvie Izzat Allee, principal sudder ameen at Nuddea, has obtained leave of absence, f om the 21st instant to the 7th pro. ximo on urgent private affairs,

FEBRUARY 15,-The Hon'ble R. Forbes, late officiating civil and session judge of Dinagepore, bas obtained an extension of leave of absence till the 1st proximo, or until the date of the sailing of the ship Duke of Buccleugh.

FEBRUARY 18. Mr E. E. H, Repton magistrate and collector of Balasore, has obtained leave of absence from the 24th instaut to the 4th proximo, on urgent private affairs, to visit Pooree.

FEBRUARY 19-Moulvie Rooknooddeen Khan Bahadoor, prin. cipal sudder ameen at Purnea, has obtained leave of absence for two weeks, beyond the ensuing mohurrum vacation, on private affairs

Baboo Gooroochurn Joss, deputy collector under regulation IX or 1833, at Dinagepore, has obtained leave of absence for one month, in extension to that granted by the commissioner of Buaugulpore.

FEBRUARY 2.-Mr. J. Macaush, assistant surgeon of Bancoorah, bas obtained leave of absence, on urgent private affairs, from the 1st to the 0th proximo, both dates inclusive.

Mem -The appointments of Meesrs Garstin, Luke, and Hal. kett, notified in the Gazete of the 231 February, 1839, under date 224 instant, will take date from the 12th idem.

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT CIVIL FEBRUARY 12.-Cazee Mahomed Mah, principal sudder ameen of east Burawan has been declared in a resolution reco.ded by the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal ou this date, unworthy of further confidence, and is accordingly removed from his appointment.

FEBRUARY 19.-Lieutenaut A. H. E. Boileau, of the engineers, appointed in General Orders of the 24th December last, to be agent for suspension bri ges and superintendent of the Circular. and eastern canals, is also invested by the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal, from the date of his assuming charge of those offices, with the powes necessary to euable him to collect the tolls and rent on those canals, as specified in the V. and subsequent Sections of Act XXII, of 1836.

JUDICIAL AND REVENUE DEPARTMENT, FEBRUARY 26.-Mr. W. Cracroft, civil and session judge of Dacca, has obtained an extension of leave of absence till the sailing of the Repuise in addition to that granted to him on the 15th ultimo.

F-BRUARY 27.-Mr. James Pattle, senior member of the Sudder Board of Revenue, has obtained leave of absence for fifteen days, to visit the Sand Heads, to commence from the date on which he may quit the presidency.

Mr. T. Murray, has been appointed to officiate until further orders, as civil assist int surgeon of Beerbhoom, vice Dr. Anderson transferred to Jessore.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM JUDICIAL AND RETENUE DEPARTMENT, FEBRUARY 26.-fu the letter to the address of Mr. Charles Garstin, dispatched on the 24th instant, and numbered 293 appointing bin to be magistrate and collector of Dinagepore, please to alter the date from the 224 to the 12th February 1s39.

In the letter to the address of Mr. William Luke, dispatched on the 24th instant, and numbered 294, appointing him to be magistrate and collector of Sarun, please to alter the date from the 22d to the 12th February 1839.

In the letter to the address of Mr. R. C. Halkett, dispatched.) on the 24th instant, and numbered 295, appointing him to b joint magistrate and deputy collector of Suran of the second grade, please to alter the date from the 22d to the 12th February

1839.

MARCH 5.-Mr. E. A. Samuells, magistrate of Hoogbly, has obtain. ed leave of absence to proceed to the Sand Heads, for one month from the 6th instant, on medical certificate. Mr. E. T. Trevor will officiate during Mr. Samuells, absence, or until further orders.

Mr. E. V. Irwin, late officiating collector of Mymensing, bas obtained leave of absence in extension to the date of the sailing of the ship Repulse on which he has taken his passage.

Mr. D. J. Money, joint magistrate and deputy collector of west Burdwan (Bancoorah,) has been permitted to remain at the presidency, for ten days, on private affairs, commencing from the 1st instant,

Mr. M. A G. Shawe has been deputed to exercise the powers of joint magistrate and deputy collector at Chittagong, and will .proceed to join that district on the arrival of Mr. Metcalfe at Burdwan,

The unexpired portion of the leave of absence granted to Mr. G. F. Houlton, when superintendent of unassessed mehals and settlement affairs in Behar, undar date the 5th December, 1837, has been cancelled at his own request.

The Deputy Governor, taking into consideration the present state of the lottery committee, is pleased to dissolve the present committee, and to constitute it by the appointment of the following members, who have expressed their willingness to serve : D. MacFarlan, Esq, President. Major Irvine, C. B, W. P. Grant,

N. Alexander

Esqrs.,

Baboo Russomoy Dutt,

Members.

Captain Hyde will continue to serve as secretary.

ist ultimo.

MARCH 5-Baboo Madub Chunder Mullick, deputy collector under Regulation IX. of 1833, in Mymensing, has obtained leave of absence for one month, in extension, commencing from the Mr H C. Halkett has been deputed to exercise the powers of joint magistrate and deputy collector at Jessore. Monivie Futteh Ali Khan, principal sudder ameen in Behar, has obtained leave of absence during the inoburrum vacation. Monlvie Niamut Alli Khan, additional principal sudder ameen of Behar, has obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation.

Moulvie Usruff Hussein Khan, sudder ameen in Behar, has obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation. MARCH 8-Moulvie Abdool Wahid Khan, principal sudder ameen of Tirhoot, has obtained leave of absence, ou private affairs, from the 14th instant to the 10th May next.

Moulvie Abdool Majid, second principal sudder ameen of West Bu dwan, (Bancoor), has obtained leave of absenco during the mohurrum vacation.

obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation in Moulvie gut Alli. principal sudder ameen of Nuddea, bas addition to the leave granted to him on the 12th ultimo.

MARCH 11.-Mr. J. J Ward has been deputed to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector at west Burdwan, (Bancoora).

Mr. G. P. Lycester has been deputed to officiate as magistrato of Hooghly, during the absence of Mr. Samuells, or until further orders.

Mr. W. Bell, officiating magistrate and collector of Tipperah, has obtained leave of absence for two months on sick certificate. Mr Annand will officiate as magistrate and collector until the arrival of Mr D. J. Money, who has been appointed to officiate as magistrate and collector of Tipperah until further orders. Mr. C. B. Trevor has been deputed to officiate as joint magistrate and deputy collector of Barraset.

MARCH 12-Moulavie Syed Hussein Buksh, sudder ameen of Beerboom, has obtained leave of absence during the moburrum vacation, and ten days beyond it, on private affairs.

Mr. W. J. H. Money, magistrate and collector of Tipperah, has obtained leave of absence in Repulse, on which he has taken his passage to England, shall extension until the ship have been left by the pilot at sea.

Mr. J. Grant has been deputed to officiate as civil and ses. sious judge of Dinagepore, until further orders.

and collector of Dacca, vice Mr. J. Grant.
Mr. R M. Skinner has been deputed to officiate as magistrate

Mr. J. Wheler has been deputed to officiate as magistrate of
Mymensing, vice Mr. Skinner.

Baboo Doorganarain Roy Behadoor. first principal sudder ameen at West Burdwan. (Bancoora), bas obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation.

MARCH 13.-Baboo Hurrynarain Ghose, first principal sudder ameen of Jessore, has obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation.

Baboo Byejjnath Sen, second principal sudder ameen of ditto, has obtained leave of absence during the moburrum vacation. Moulvie Mahomed Kulleem, sudder ameen of ditto, has obtained leave of absence during the mobarrum vacation.

MARCH 12.-The following rule, in explanation of clause 5 of the rules published in the Gazette of the 24 February, 1833, is passed on this date by the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal, and published for general information:

"Whenever a principal sudder ameen, sudder ameen, or moon. siff may be absent from his station on leave, the amlab on the Establishment of such officer shall not suffer any deduction from their fixed allowances."

The above rule is to have retrospective operation in all cases not fiually disposed of at the date of its promulgation,

Mr. A. D. Young has been vested with the powers of joint ma. gistrate and deputy collector in Tirboot and directed to take charge from Mr J. G. Campbell, of the office of superintendent of khas and resumed mehals in that district and to conduct the duties thereof until further orders, in addition to his duties as an Assistant vested with the powers above described.

2. In adopting the regulation now suggested, it will be proper in order to avert disappointment, to give publicity to the change of practice.

of a memorial from Mr. Thomas Baber, of the Bombay civil ser. 3 The last mail via Malta, brought numerous printed copies vice, one of which was addressed to each member of the Court. Moulvie Asruf Ali, sudder ameen in Chittagong, has been ap. The copies of the memorial (upon each of which a charge for pointed to officiate temporarily as third principal sudder ameen of postage to the extent of £12 was demanded) have of course been that district, during the absence of Moulvie Munneer Oodeen refused but as considerable trouble and inconvenience must be Mahomed on deputation at Mymensing. occasioned by a repetition of such a proceeding, we desire that you will take measures for giving publicity to the Post Office Moulvie Budde Oodeen Ahmed, moonsiff of Bhuttearee in Chit-Regulations of this country nnder which the receipt of letters by tagong, has been appointed to officiate temporarily as sudder the overland maii is restricted-a copy of the Regulations in ameen in that district, until Moulvie Asruf Ali resumes charge question is forwarded (a No. in the Packet) of his office.

Under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majes

Mr. C. B. Quintin, joint magistrate and deputy collector of ty's treasury, the chairman, deputy chairman, secretary and Champaran, has obtained leave of absence for one month, to pro-assistant secretary to the East India Company, have the personal ceed to Patna, for Medical advice, Mr. C. Beadon will officiate privilege of receiving letters free of postage from the East Indies As joint magistrate and deputy collector during Mr. Quintin's by packet via the Mediterranean; but the privilege does not exabsence. tend to any other director or officer of company."

MARCH 15.-Mr. J. W. Alexander third commissioner of the Court of Requests has obtained leave of absence for one month from the 1st proximo, on private affairs.

MARCH 9.-Moulvie Mahomed Refik, officiating sudder ameen of Monghyr, has obtained leave of absence during the mohurrum vacation.

MARCH 20.-Mr. Assistant Surgeon C. N Cheek, of the civil station of Burdwan, has obtained leave of absence from his station from the 25th instant to the 6th proximo on private affairs.

Mr. J. B. Elliott, special commissioner under Regulation III. of 1828, for the division of Patna, his obtained leave of absence for three months on medical certificate, to visit the presidency, from the date of his making over temporary charge of his office to Mr. R. N. Farquharson.

The unexpired portion of the leave of absence granted to Mr. J. Pattle, senior member of the Sudder Board of Revenue, under dote the 27th ultimo, has been cancelled from the 12th instant, at his own request.

FRED. JAS. HALLIDAY,
Secy, to the Govt. of Bengal.

FORT WILLIAM, GENERAL DEPARTMENT, FEBRUARY 20 1832.-The Hon'ble Richard Cavendish, of the civil service, proceeding on Furlough to England via Rombay, reported his having left| the limits of the Bengal presidency on the 27th ultimo.

FEBRUARY 27-Mr E F Tyler, of the civil service, embarked for England on board the ship Exmouth, which vessel was left by the pilot at sea on the 22d instant.

FEBRUARY 27.—Mr. George Alexander, officiating post master general, has been permitted to be absent from his duties on leave for one mouth, from the 1st proximo, under medical certi ficate.

The Honorable the President in Council has been pleased to appoint Mr. Robert Williams to act for Mr. George Alexander, during the period of his absence on leave.

GENERAL DEPARTMENT, PEBRUARY 27.—Mr. J. M. Hay, of the civil service, has been permitted to proceed to England on the furlough allowed to junior servants, under medical certificate.

MARCH 6.-Mr. J. Thomason, of the civil service, embarked for the Cape of Good Hope on board the ship" Windsor," which vessel was left by the pilot at sea on the 28th ultimo.

MARCH 6.-The Hon'ble the Deputy Governor of Bengal is pleased to extend the leave of absence granted by the commissioner of Dacca on the 4th ultimo to Mr. J. M. Hay of the civil service, proceeding to England on furlough under medical certificate, until the sailing of the ship Marion.

NOTIFICATION.-The undermentioned extracts from a depatch from the Hon'ble Court of Directors, dated 19th December, No 91 of 1828, are published for general information :

Para. 1. "Complaints have been made in this country of the expence occasioned by the practice of the indiscriminate trans 3. mission of letters and packages by the overland mails. This is a practice which, independent of the private inconvenience which it occasions, has a tendency to impede the public service by over loading the dåks, and we desire that in future no letters or packages be forwarded overland, unless specially superscribed to be, sent by that mode of conveyance.

The Hon'ble the President in Council is pleased to appoint Mr.
Civil Assistant Surgeon J. Macaush, of Bancoorah, to be post
master at that station.
H.T PRINSEP.
Secy. to the Govt. of India.

ble the Governor General of India, are published for general MARCH 13-The following, Orders issued by the Right Honors. information :

CAMP, SUMBHALKA, FEBRUARY 25.-The Right Honorable the Governor General of India has been pleased to grant to Captain T. J. Taylor, agent for post office enquiries, one month's leave o absence from the 1st of March next, in order to enable him to proceed to the presidency, preparatory to his application for permission to resign the Honorable Company's service from the Ist of April, 1839.

The Governor General of India has been also pleased to accent that officer's application for permission to resign bis present appointment of agent for post office enquiries from the latter

date.

By Order of the Right Hon'ble the Governor General of India, (Signed) T. H. MADDOCK, Offg. Secy, to the Govt. of India with the Gour. Geni

Mr. Surgeon James Ranken, M D. took charge of the office of agent of the Government of India for conducting special enqui ries in the post office department on the 25th ultimo, under the Orders of the Right Honorable the Governor General for the North Western Provinces.

MARCH 15.-Notice is hereby given, that the salaries and allowances of the civil and marine departments, for March ins ant, will be discharged by the sub-treasurer and marine paymaster respectively, on or after Monday, the 15th proxime, Published by order of the Hon'ble the President in Council. MARCH 20-Messrs, R. D. Mangles, W. Cracroft, E. V. Irwin, W. J H. Money and Wigram Money, of the civil service, enbarked for England on board the ship Repulse, which vessel was left by the pilot at sea on the 14th instant.

The Hon'ble Robert Forbes and Mr. G. Mainwaring, of the civil service, the former gentleman embarked for England and the latter gentlem in for the Cape of Good Hopeon board the ship Duke of Buccleugh, which vessel was left by the pilot at sea că the 12th instant.

MARCH 20.-Mr. J. Neave, of the civil service, has been permitted to proceed to England, under medical certificate.

MARCH 20-The Lord Bishop of Calcutta has granted one month's leave of absence to the Reverend Arthur Spry, to enable him to join his Station.

MARCH 23.—Messrs. C. Macsween and J. T. Mellis, of the civil evice, embarked for England on board the ship Thomas Gren ville, which vessel was left by the pilot at sea on the 17th instant.

Erratum in the Notification No. 106. dated the 13th March, 1839, and published in the Calcutta Gusette of the 16th March. In correction of the Order published in the Gazette of the 16th March announcing that Surgeon James Ranken took charge of the office of agent for conducting post office enquiries, ou the 25th ultimo, the charge assumed by that gentleman will date from the 1st instant on which date the office was delivered over by Captain Tavlor, under the authority of the Right Hon'ble the Governor General.

SEPARATE DEPARTMENT, FEBRUARY 20.-The collector of Henghly is hereby vested with jurisdiction for the trial of persona charged

with offences against the laws for the protection of the Salt | Revenue when made over by the Superintendent of the Salt Chowkeys of Burdwan, appointed under the Act IX of 1835, and the said collector of Hooghly shall and is hereby empow. ered to exercise in respect to such cases the powers described in Sections XCVI. and CIX and other provisions of Regulation X of 1819 of the Bengal Code.

FEBRUARY 27-Mr. W. A. Peacock, superintending of Megna Bait chokees, Mr. J. Baker, superintendant of salt, chokees, in the Bullooa division, Mr. W. Kenneday, superintendant of salt chokees in Chittagong, also Mr. G. Temple, superintendant of salt chokees at Bogundee, are respectively vested, under Sec. XXV. Act XXIX of 1838, with the full powers authorized by Regulation X. 1819 to be exercised by salt agents and superin tendents of chokees in respect to the trial of persons charged with offences against the laws for the protection of the salt

BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA, the cavalry of the Jaloun corps.

and from the ist to the 30th March next, to enable him to join point Ensign A. Dalias, of the 16th regiment native infantry, an

Offg. Secy. to Govt. of India, with Govr. Genl.

POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, CAMP, AT ALLE EPORE, FEBRUARY 21.Lieutenant W H Nicholetts, of the 2sth regiment native infuutry, was, on the 18th instant, appointed to act as adjutant of the 1st regiment infantry Oude Auxilary Eorce. during the absence ef Lieutenant Shaw, vice Lieutenant W C Hollings,

POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, N. W. PROVINCES, CAMP, DELHIE, FEBRUABY 13.-Lieutenant W Hore, 18th regiment native infantry, to be an assistant to the agent to the Governor General in the Sauger aud Nerbudda territories.

CAMP AT LEELAKBERES, MARCH 4.-Captain F. C. Elwall, assis. tant to the general superintendent of the operations for the