Section 0

(2): Preamble (2) 8uch order shall specify the nature of the assistance required, and such owners, occupiers, holders, farmers, assignees, lessees or their agents, aud such village-officers and servants, the members of such panchayats and such ghatwals, circletahsildars and village-headmen shall be bound to o h y it. Asking of 6. Every census-officer may ask all such questions C C ~ S U E - qllestiOns by of all persons vitl~in the limits of the local area for oScers. whi=h he is appointed as, by illstructiolls issued ill this lsdhalf by the Local Governn~ont and publishecl in the official Gazette, he tnag be directed to ask. Asking of C C ~ S U E - oScers. An Act to provide for certain matters in coni~ection with the taking of the Census, FVHEREAS it has been determined to take a census of British India duying the year 1901, a,nd it is expedient to provide for certain matters in connection with the taking of such census ; It is hereby enacted as follows :- 1. (1) This Act mag be called the Indian Census Act, 1900. Title, oxtent and Oommo~~oement. (2): Preamble (2) All census-officers shall be deemed to be p ~ ~ b l i c servauts mithin tho meaning of the Indian Yens1 Code. XLV OT I 4. ( I ) ((1) ETO~Y 4. (1) (a) Every officer in comlnand of any body of men belonging to Her Ma.jestyYs military or naval forces or to Her Majesty's Indian Marine Service or of any vessel of mar, Discharge ( ,f duties of censusofficers in certain case IS. ( b ) every person (except a pilot or harbour-master) I~avinpcharge or control of a vessel, (c) every person in charge of a lunatic asylum, hospital, worlthouse, prison, reformatory or lock-up, or of any public, charitable, religious or educational institution, (d) every keeper, secretary or manager of any sarai, hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or club, and Q (e) e v e y occupant of immoveable property and every manager or officer of a railway or other commercial or iudustrial enterprise who has at the time of tlie taking of the census not lcss tlla~i fifty persons employed under.him, or living on or in such property, shall, if so required by the District Magistrate, or by such officer as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf, perform such of the duties of a census:officer in relation to the persons who at tlie time of the taking of the census are under his command =P chailge, or iomates of his hoi~.se or present on or in such imrnoveable property, as such Magistrate or officer may, hy written order, direct. (2): Preamble (2) All the provisions of this Act relating to census-oficers slia!l apply, so far as they can be made applicable, to all persons wliile performifig such duties uoder this section, and any person refusing or aeglecting to perform any duty whicli he is directed under t,llis section to perform shall be deemed to have committed an ollence under section 187 of the Indian Peual Corle. `5.` ( 1 ) Tlie District Magietrate, or such oilicer as Pourer of the Local Qorernmcilt may apl~oint ill tlljs 13ellalf for District Magistrate t o ally local area, may, by mritltcll orcier, wlliclb shall cull t t p n `Census.` 74 `[ACT` X, . have effect throughout the limits of his district or of such local area, as the case may be, call upon- oertain persons to give assistance, - (@) all owners and occupiers of land, tenureholders, farmers, assignees of land-revenue and lessees of fisheries under the Burma Fisheries Sct, 1875, or the Upper Burma vrr of 1876. Land and Revenue Regulation, $889, or 111 of 1889t,heir agents, - ( b ) all village-officers and servants in estates as defined in the Madras Proprietary Estates' (2): Preamble - (c) all members of panchayats appointed under Villa.ge Service Act, 1894 (Madras), and En$ I O J L i . I1 of the Villag@haukidari Act, 1870 (Bengal), of or the Sylhet and Cachar Rural Police Regulation, 1883, all ghatwals and all circle- I of 1883, tahsildars appointed under the Chota Kagpur Rural Police Act, 1887 (Bengal), and Bell. V of all village-headmen in the Kumaun Division[1887. ] of the North-Western Provinces, to give such assistance as he needs towards the taking of a census of the persons who are at the time of the taking of the census on the lands of such owners, occupiers, holders, farmers and assignees, or mithin the limits of such fisheries or in the villages or other areas for which such village-o6cers and servants, panchayats, ghatwals, circle-tahsildars or village-headmen are appointed, as the case may be.