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THE PUNJAB FRONTIER
GRAZING REGULATION, 1874.
(REGULATION NO. I OF 1874).
SECTIONS. CONTENTS.
1. Title.
2. Definition of cattle.
3. Prohibition against grazing animals unaccompanied by armed
guard.
4. Seizure of animals grazed without such guard.
5. Fines leviable on delivery of such animals.
6. Penalties leviable on restoration of animals
carried off through owner's
negligence or disregard of Regulation.
7. Procedure on refusal to pay such penalties.
8. Sale of animals not claimed and disposal of proceeds.
9. Power to exempt certain tracts from
the operation of sections 3,4 and 5.
THE PUNJAB FRONTIER
GRAZING REGULATION, 1874.
(REGULATION NO. I OF 1874).
(Published in the Gazette of India of 21st, February, 1874,
P. 114 and in the Punjab Gazette of 12th March,1875, P. 105)
WHEREAS by a Resolution passed by
the Secretary of State in Council on the 6th day of
October, 1870, the provisions of the thirty-third of Victoria, chapter 3,
section I , were declared applicable to the Districts of Bannu, Dera Ismail
Khan,and Dera Ghazi khan.
And whereas the Lieutenant–Governor of the Punjab has
proposed to the Governor-General in Council a draft of the following
regulations; together with the reasons for proposing the same.
And whereas the Governor-General in Council has taken
such draft and reasons into consideration, and has approved of such draft, and
the same has received the Governor- General’s assent:
In pursuance of the direction contained in the said
section, the said draft is now published in the Gazette of India, and will be published in the Local Gazette, and
will thereupon have the force of law.
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1. This
Regulation may be called the Frontier Grazing Regulation, 1874.
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Title.
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2. In
this Regulation "cattle" includes also elephants,
camels, buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies, colts, fillies and mules.
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Definition of cattle.
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3. No cattle, sheep,
asses or goats shall, except in the cases provided for in section
9, be grazed to the west of the frontier militaryroad in the districts
of Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, and Dera Ghazi Khan, without being
accompanied by an armed guard of not less than the following strength
namely:—
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Prohibition against grazing animals unaccompanied by armed
guard.
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(a)
for sheep, goats and asses, where the number does not exceed one
hundred, one man; for every additional hundred or part of a hundred, one
man;
(b)
for cattle, where the number does not exceed one hundred, two men;
for every additional hundred or part of a hundred, two men.
Whereas in the Marwat District of Bannu, the Frontier
military road skirts the foot of the hill-ranges in independent territory, no
cattle, sheep, asses or goats, except as provided for in section 9, shall be
grazed on the lands of any village which immediately adjoins the Frontier
unless accompanied by an armed guard of the strength already mentioned.
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4.
Any cattle, sheep, asses or goats discovered by the
patrols grazing within the above-mentioned limits un-accompanied by the guard
prescribed in the preceding section shall be seized and sent to
the nearest police-station.
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Seizure of animals grazed without such guard.
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5. No animals taken to a police-station under the preceding;
section shall be released, except on payment of the following penalties in
addition to all charges incurred in seizing and keeping them:-
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Fines leviable on
delivery of such animals.
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For each Camel .
. . . . . [twelve
paisa]
For each head of cattle other than each and for each ass. . [six
paisa]
For each sheep or goat. [two
paisa]
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6. When animals which
have been carried off owing to the gross negligence of the owners and their failure to comply
with the requirements of this Regulation are subsequently recovered by the
police or by other officers of Government, the following penalties shall be
exacted on their restoration to the owners in addition to all charges
incurred in recovering and keeping them:
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Penalties leviable on restoration of animals
carried off through owners negligence or disregard of Regulation.
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For each
came]
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. five
rupees,
For each head of cattle other than camels
one rupee,
For each
ass
.. .. .. [fifty
paisa.]:
For each sheep or goat
..
.. ..[twelve
paisa]
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7. If the owner of any
animals seized or recovered under this Regulation, or his agent, appear and
refuse to pay the penalties and charges incurred, the animals, or as many of
them as maybe necessary, shall be sold under the orders of the Deputy
Commissioner to defray the said charges and penalties as nearly as may be in
accordance with the rules prescribed for impounded cattle by section-16 of
the Cattle-Trespass Act, 1871.
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Procedure refusal to pay such penalties.
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8. If any animals
seized or recovered under this Regulation be not claimed within seven days
from the date of their being so seized or recovered, they may, after
proclamation of the number and description of the animals, the place where
they were seized or recovered and the police-station to which they have been
taken, be sold under the orders of the Deputy Commissioner as nearly as may
be in confor-mity with the rules prescribed for impounded cattle by section
14 of the Cattle-Trespass Act, 1871. The surplus proceeds of the sale, after
deducting all penalties and charges, shall be held in deposit for three
calendar months, and, if no claims thereto be preferred and established
within that period, shall at its expiry be at the disposal of the [Provincial
Government].
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Sale of animals not claimed and disposal of proceeds.
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9. When tracts of
territory, hill and plain, on both sides of the frontier line in the
districts before mentioned, are occupied by members of the same tribe (as in
the cases of the Ashtaranis in the Dera Ismail Khan, and of the Ahmadzai
Waziris in Bannu), the Deputy Commissioner of the district may in his
discretion accept written guarantees from the headmen of such tribes for the
security of cattle, sheep, asses or goats at graze on the border, should such
headmen represent that armed guards are unnecessary; and in the event of his
accepting such guarantees, the tracts in question shall be exempted from the
operation of sections 3,4 and 5 of this Regulation. Information of such exemptions
from the operation of the said section shall be invariably conveyed to the
officer commanding the militia and outposts.
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Power to exempt certain tracts from the operation of sections 3,4
and 5.
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