The Punjab Frontier Grazing Regulation 1874

THE PUNJAB FRONTIER GRAZING REGULATION, 1874.
(REGULATION NO. T 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.

REGULATION NO.    1 OF 1874.
(THE PUNJAB FR0NTIER GRAZING REGULATION,

(Published in the Gazette of India of 21st, February       1874,
P. 114 and in the Punjab Gazette of 2tft MaWMr4, P. K5)
WHEREAS by a Resolution   passed by the   Secretary of State in Council on the 6th day of October, ! 870, the provisions ,of the thirty-third of Victoria, chapter 3, secii^A'^XVe're'1 declared appli­cable to the Districts of Bannu, Dera Ismail KhanJ . and  dera Ghazi khan.
And whereas the 2Lieutenant – 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.

(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.

2.    To be construed now "Governor" s««: Sec. 31 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897).
FRONTIER GRAZING.                                                      [1874 . Reg. 1.

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.

For each Camel     . .    . .   .  . 2[twelve paisa]
For each head of cattle other than each. and for each ass. .2[six paisa]
For each sheep or goat.

For each came]                           . .                         . .            five rupees,
For each head of cattle other than c.'i.mrjs                           one rupee,
For each ass                           ..                                             ..    3[fifty paisa.]:
For each sheep or goat       ..                           ..          _         3[twelve paisa]:

2.    Subs, for the words "two annas, one anna and three pies respectively" by W. P. (Provincial Laws Amendment) Ord. XXXIV of 1960, s 4. Sech. II.
3.      Sub. for the words "eight annas and two annas respectively" by W. P. Ordinance. XXXIV of 1960, a 4, sen. II.
—1874: Reg. J.]                            FRONTIER GRAZING

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].

Attachments