Section IV

IV. First-In modification of the Rule contained in Section LXXXIX. Regulation X. 1819 of the Bengal Code, the following scale of rewards is established for Officers and others making seizures of Salt. Second.-Upon the adjudication of a forfeiture of Salt, provided the parties concerned in the attempt to evade or violate the law, be likewise convicted, the Officers of the Salt Department under the grades of Agent and Superintend, if they have made the seizure upon information laid, or under orders of their Superiors, shall be entitled to a reward at the rate of 8 annas per maund of Merchantable Salt to adjudged to be forfeited. If the parties concerned be not discovered and convicted, the reward to the Salt Officers shall be only at the rate of 5 annas per maund. Third.-If Salt be seized by any Subordinate Officers of Government possessing authority to make seizure without information from others of orders from their Superior, the reward shall be at the rate of one rupee per maund if the offenders be convicted, and 8 annas if no offernders be convicted. Fourth.-Informers, whether Officers of Government or not, shall, on the adjudication of Salt to forfeiture that may have been seized on their information, receive 8 annas per maund if the offenders be convicted, and 5 annas if there be no conviction.