Section 4. There shall be seven grades of Courts in the Punjab which shdl be in Grades of courts in addition to

4. There shall be seven grades of Courts in the Punjab which shdl be in Grades of courts in addition to any Courts of small Casues, and to any other the Punjab. Courts established under any Act which may hereafter be unless otherwise provided in such Act, namely :- (1).[The Court of the Tahsildar. ] (2).[The Court ][of ][the Assistant Commissioner with ordinary pomers. ] (3).[The Court of ][the ][Assistant ][Commissioner ][with special powers. ] 4).[The Court of the Assistant Commissioner with full pomers. ] (5).[The Court of the Deputy Commissioner. ] (6j.[The Court of the Commissioner. ] - 7 . The Court of the Judicial Conimissioner. ACT No. XIX `OI?` 1865, 242 5.[The Local Government may invest any Tahsildar with power to try ] Jurisdiction of ~ ~ and detern~ine suits of every description not exceeding three h - sildar. hundred Rupees in value or amount. 6.[The Local Government shall also have power, from time to time, special- ] ly to invest any Naib Tahsildar with the powers of a Tal~sildar[[as aforesaid within such limits as ][it ][may think proper and to ]][[it ][may think proper and to ]][[may think proper and to ]] withdraw such powers. Local Goyernmen+, may in special cases give Naib Tal~sildars Powers of 'I'~haildar- may in special cases give Naib Tal~sildars[[as aforesaid within such limits as ][it ][may think proper and to ]][[it ][may think proper and to ]][[may think proper and to ]] wnn oralnary powers. tion not exceeding one hundred Rupees in value or amount. `8.` Tlle Assistant Coinmissioner with special powers 9,[The Criminal powers to be exercised by the Courts of the said first, ] criminal powers to[second, and third grades respectively, shall be those with which ] be of the exercisedby lst, 2nd, Courts and the several Officers presiding in those Courts shall from time 3rd grades. to time be invested by tlie Local Government under Section 23 of the Code of Criminal procedure. `10.`[The Assistant Commissioner with full powers shall, on the Civil side, ] have power to try and determine suits of every description J~~risdiction of Aq- sistant Commissioner under ten thousand Rupees in value or amount and on the with full powers. Criminal side to exercise the powers of a Magistrate as defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure. 11. The Deputy Commissioner shall, on the Civil side, have power to try -Turisdiction of De-[and determine suits of every description without limitation in ] pnty COmmissioner. value or amount, and to hear appeals, where an appeal is allowed by the Code of Civil Procedure in force in the Punjab, from decisions and orders of the first three grades of Courts mentioned in the fourth Section of this Act, and, on the Criminal side, to exercise the powers of a Magistrate as defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, and to hear appeals according to the provisions of the same Code relating to tlie hearing of appeals by Magistrates from the sentences and orders of Courts subordinate to the Nagistrate of the District. The Deputy Commissioner may also be invested by the Local Govern~nent with the powers described in Act No. XV of 1862 (to anzend the Code of Ci.inzi?zul Procedure).