Section XXXVII. All actions and prosecutions to be commenced against the Collector or any Abkaree Officer, or any pe

XXXVII. All actions and prosecutions to be commenced against the Collector or any Abkaree Officer, or any person acting in aid of any such Officer, for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, shall be commenced menced within three Calendar months after the fact committed, and not afterwards; and notice in writing of such action and of the cause thereof shall be given to the Defendant one Calendar month at least before the commencement of the action; and no Plaintiff shall recover in any such action, if tender of sufficient amends shall have been made before such action brought, or if after action brought, a sufficient sum of money shall have been paid into Court, with costs, by or on behalf of the Defendant. XXXVIII. The Collector, in respect of the duties to be performed by him, under this Act, shall have power to punish any contempt committed in his presence in open Cutcherry by fine, not exceeding two hundred Rupees, commutable, if not paid, to imprisonment in the Common Jail, for a period not exceeding one month: provided, that an appeal, from any order passed under this section, shall lie to the Commissioner of Abkaree, and, in his absence, to the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium; and the decision of the Commissioner or Board thereon shall be final. Calcuta, 1849:—Printed at the Bengal Military Orphan Press, by J. C. Sherriff.