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ACT XXIX.] Salt Agent, or Uncovenanted Superintendent of Salt Chokies, who may seem to him qualified; and such Officers, when invested with such powers, shall exercise them subject to the same rules and restrictions as Covenanted Salt Agents and Superintendents of Chokies; provided that no Officer adjudicating cases of contravention of the Salt Revenue Laws shall receive any part of the rewards that may be decreed or otherwise benefit directly by the adjudication of such cases.

XXVI.And it is hereby enacted, that cases arising out of this Act shall be tried in the same manner as is prescribed in Regulation X. of 1819 of the Bengal Code for other cases of contravention of the laws for the protection of the Revenue derived from Salt; and the Officer adjudicating the case shall be guided by the provisions of Sections C. to CXVI. of that Regulation; and the Judge of the City or Zillah shall be bound to proceed in respect to persons sentenced to any fine or other penalty under the provisions of this Act, in the same manner, subject to the modifications and additions hereinafter provided, as is prescribed in respect to persons convicted of the offences and tried before the authorities specified and provided by the said Regulation.

XXVII.And it is hereby enacted, in modification of Clauses XXXII. and XXXIII. of Regulation X., 1819, of the Bengal Code, that it shall be the duty of every party under direct engagements with Government for the Land Revenue, either as a proprietor or farmer, and of every proprietor of lakhiraj lands upon whose zemindaree farm or lakhiraj estate there shall be any works producing Salt, otherwise than under contract with a Salt Agent or on account of Government, to give notice of the same in writing to the nearest public Officer of Police or Land Revenue or of the Salt Department, within ten days from the date on which the works were first prepared; and in like manner it shall be the duty of every person employed in the collection of the Land Revenue of any Mehal on the part of Government, or of the Court of Wards, or of joint proprietors, to give like notice in respect to Salt manufactured on the lands under their management; and every such proprietor, farmer, proprietor of lakhiraj estate or manager, who shall knowingly omit to give such notice, shall be liable on Conviction before the Judge of any