Salt, Bengal Act, 1838, 29 of 1838 (Rep., Act 12 of 1876)

Section XXXIII. And it is hereby enacted, that the penalties of this Act shall take effect only within the tract of

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XXXIII. And it is hereby enacted, that the penalties of this Act shall take effect only within the tract of Country guarded by Salt Chokies in the manner prescribed in Section XXXVI. of Regulation X. 1819 of the Bengal Code, and within which the transportation of Salt, not belonging to Government, without a Ruwana, or Special Pass from the Board of Customs, Salt and Opium, Opium, is not lawful; and it is hereby declared that such tract shall not extend, within the Delta of the Ganges and Megna Rivers, beyond the line of the reach of the tides in the Rivers communicating with the Bay of Bengal as taken at spring tides in the dry season; nor, eastward of the Megna, north of the River Goomtee; nor, westward of the River Hooghly, beyond a line drawn from a point on that River distant one mile from the northern end of the town of Nyasurai, and to the north thereof, to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Guttaul, and thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of the town of Midnapore, and thence to a like point distant one mile to the north of Huldipookur in Singbhoom, so as to include each of those towns respectively. Calcutta: 1838.—Printed at the Bengal Military Orphan Press, by G. H. Huttmann.

Source: India Code