Assessment
of incre-
ments to
revenue-
paying
estates.

Indemnity
clause.

54

Bengal Alluvion and Diluvion
Supreme Courts' Officers Trading.

[1847: Act ŁK.
[1848: Act XV,

g i* * * Whenever on inspection of any such new map it
shall appear to the local Revenue-authorities that land has boon
added to any estate paying revenue directly to Government, -|OT to
any land not subject to the payment of revenue], theyjshali with-
out delay assess the same with a revenue payable to Government
according to the rules in force for assessing alluvial increments, ai<<!
shall report their proceedings forthwith to the J: * Board of
Revenue, whose orders thereupon shall be final.

7. [Local Revenue-authorities to take possession of a new island,
and to assess and settle the land.] Rep. by the Bengal Alluvion Act.
1868 (Ben. Act IV of 1868).

8. [Exception of certain suits from operation of Act] Rep. by
the Repealing Act, 1870 (XIV of 1870).

9. 4* * No suit or action in any Court of Justice shall lie
against the 5 [Government] or any of its officers on account oŁ any-
thing done in good faith in the exercise of the powers conferred by
this Act.

Preamble.

Prohibition,
in case of
officers of

'[THE SUPREME COURTS' OFFICERS TRADING
ACT, 1848.]

ACT No. XV OF i

[17th June 1848.]

An Act to forbid trading by the Officers of the Supreme
Courts.

For the better discharge of their duties by the officers of the
undermentioned Courts of Justice ; It is enacted as follows:—

1. No officer of any of the Courts of Judicature established by
Royal Charter within the territories subject to the Government of
the East India Company, or any Court established for the relief of

1 Formal words rep. by the Repealing Act, 1874 (16 of 1874).

alns. by the Bengal Alluvion and Diluvion (Amendment) Act. 1936
(Ben. 9 of 1936), s. 2.

* The word " Sadar " rep. by the Amending Act, 1903 (1 of 1903).

* The words "And it is hereby enacted that" rep. by the Repealing Act, 1874
(16 of 1874) and the words "except as regards the proprietary rights to
islands" rep. by the Amending Act, 1903 (1 of 1903),

*Subs. by the A. O. 1950 for "Crown" which had been subs, by the
A. O. 1937 for " Govt".

6 Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897).