is situated, shall thereupon be empowered to exercise respectively the powers provided in sections eleven and twelve.

17. The Local Government may, with the sanction of the Governor General in Council, place any tribe, gang or class, which has been declared to be criminal, or any part thereof, in a reformatory settlement.

18. The Local Government may. with the previous consent of the Governor General in Council, make rules to prescribe

(1) the form in which the register shall be made by the said Magistrate;

(2) the mode in which the said Magistrate shall publish the notice prescribed in section eight and the means by which the persons whom it concerns, and the Headmen, Village Watchmen and landowners or occupiers of the village, in which such persons reside, shall be informed of its publication;

(3) the mode in which the notice prescribed in section eleven shall be given;

(4) the limits within which persons whose names are on the register shall reside;

(5) conditions as to holding passes, under which such persons may be permitted to leave the said limits;

(6) conditions to be inserted in any such pass as to

(a) the places where the holder of the pass may go or reside

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(b) the officers before whom, from time to time, he shall be bound to present himself;

(c) and the time during which he may absent himself;

(7) conditions as to answering at roll-call or otherwise, in order to satisfy the said Magistrate or persons authorized by him, that the persons whose names are on the register are actually present at given times within the said limits;

(8) the inspection of the residences and villages of any such tribe, gang or class and the prevention or removal of contrivances for enabling the residents therein to conceal stolen property, or to leave their place of residence without leave;

(9) the terms upon which registered persons may be discharged from the operation of this Act;

(10) the mode in which criminal tribes shall be settled and removed;
(11) the control and supervision of reformatory settlements;

(12) the works on which, and the hours during which, persons placed in a reformatory settlement, shall be employed, the rates at which they shall be paid, and the disposal, for the benefit of such persons, of the surplus proceeds of their labour after defraying the whole or such part of the expenses of their supervision and control as to the Local Government shall seem fit;

(13) the discipline to which persons endeavouring to escape from any such settlement, or otherwise offending against the rules for the time being in force, shall be submitted; the periodical visitation of such settlement, and the removal from it of such persons as it shall seem expedient to remove;

(14) and generally to carry out the purposes of this Act.

19. Any person violating any of the rules made under section eighteen shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with whipping, or with all or any two of those punish

ments; and, on any second conviction for a breach of any of the said rules, with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with whipping to be inflicted in the manner prescribed by any law in force for the time being in relation to whipping, or with all or any two of those punishments. 20. Any person registered under the provisions of this Act, who is found in any part of British India beyond the limits so prescribed for his residence, without such pass as may be required by the said rules, or in a place or at a time not permitted by the conditions of his pass,

or who escapes from a reformatory settlement,

may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or village-watchman, and taken before a Magistrate, who, on proof of the facts, shall order him to be removed to the district in which he ought to have resided, or to the reformatory settlement from which he has escaped (as the case may be), there to be dealt with according to the rules under this Act for the time being in force.

The rules for the time being in force for the transmission of prisoners shall apply to all persons removed under this section: Provided that an order from the Local Government or from the Inspector General of Prisons shall not be necessary for the removal of such persons.

21. It shall be the duty of every Village-Headman and Village-Watchman in a village in which any persons belonging to a tribe, class or gang which bas been declared criminal, reside, and of every owner or occupier of land on which any such persons reside, to give the earliest information in his power at the nearest police station of

(1) the failure of any such person to appear and give information, as directed in section eight;

(2) the departure of any such person from such village, or from such land (as the case may be).

And it shall be the duty of every Village-Headman, and Village-Watchman in a village, and of every owner or occupier of land, to give the earliest information in his power at the nearest police station of the arrival at such village, or on such land (as the case may be) of any persons who may reasonably be suspected of belonging to any such tribe, class or gang.

22. Any Village-Headman, Village-Watchman, owner or occupier of land, who shall fail to comply with the requirements of section twenty-one, shall be deemed to have committed an offence under the first part of section one hundred and seventy-six of the Indian Penal Code.

23. All Magistrates and other persons are hereby indemnified for anything heretofore done under the Circular Order 18 of 1856 of the Judicial Commissioner of the Panjab, or under any orders of the Local Governments of the NorthWestern Provinces, or Oudh, relating to the registration or detention of tribes regarded by such Local Governments as criminal tribes; and no suit or other proceeding shall be maintained against any such Magistrate or other person in respect of anything so done.

PART II.-EUNUCHS.

24. The Local Government shall cause the following registers to be made and kept up by such officer as, from time to time, it appoints in this behalf :—

(a) a register of the names and residences of all eunuchs residing in any town or place, to which the Local Government specially extends this Part of this Act, who are reasonably suspected of kidnapping or castrating children, or of

committing offences under section three hundred and seventy-seven of the Indian Penal Code, or of abetting the commission of any of the said offences; and

(b) a register of the property of such of the said eunuchs as, under the provisions hereinafter contained, are required to furnish information as to their property.

The term 'eunuch' shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to include all persons of the male sex, who admit themselves, or on medical inspection clearly appear, to be impotent.

25. Any person deeming himself aggrieved by any entry made or proposed to be made in such register, either when the register is first made or subsequently, may complain to the said officer, who shall enter such person's name, or erase it, or retain it, as he sees fit.

Every order for erasure of such person's name shall state the grounds on which such person's name is erased.

The Commissioner shall have power to review any order passed by such officer on such complaint, either on appeal by the the complainant or otherwise.

26. Any eunuch so registered, who appears, dressed or ornamented like a woman, in a public street or place or in any other place with the intention of being seen from a public street or place,

or who dances or plays music, or takes part in any public exhibition, in a public street or place or for hire in a private house,

may be arrested without warrant, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

27. Any eunuch so registered who has in his charge, or keeps in the house in which he resides, or under his control, any boy who has not completed the age of sixteen years, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

28. The Magistrate may direct that any such boy shall be returned to his parents or guardians, if they can be discovered. If they cannot be discovered, the Magistrate may make such arrangements as he thinks necessary for the maintenance and education of such boy, and may direct that the whole or any part of a fine inflicted under section twenty-seven may be employed in defraying the cost of such arrangements.

The Local Government may direct out of what local or municipal fund so much of the cost of such arrangements as is not met by the fine imposed, shall be defrayed.

29. No eunuch so registered shall be capable

(a) of being or acting as guardian to any minor,

(b) of making a gift,

(c) of making a will, or

(d) of adopting a son.

30. Any officer authorized by the Local Government in this behalf may, from time to time, require any eunuch so registered to furnish information as to all property, whether movable or immovable, of or to which he is possessed or entitled, or which is held in trust for him.

Any such eunuch intentionally omitting to furnish such information. or furnishing, as true, information on the subject which he knows, or has reason to believe. to be false, shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section one hundred and seventy-six or one hundred and seventy-seven of the Indian Penal Code, as the case may be.

31. The Local Government may with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, make rules for the making and keeping up and charge of registers made under this part of the Act.

ACT No. XXVIII OF 1871.

An Act to amend the European Vagrancy Act, 1869.

1. Amendment of Act XXI of 1869.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the European Vagrancy Act, No. XXI of 1869; It is hereby enacted as follows:

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1. After section thirty-one, the following section shall be read:

"31A. When any person of European extraction lands in India, being or having been during his passage to India in charge of, or in attendance upon any animal, and becomes chargeable to the State as a vagrant within one year after his arrival in India, then

the consignee of such animal,

or the agents in India for the sale of such animal,

or, if such consignee or agent cannot be found,

the agent to whom the ship in which such animal arrived in India was consigned,

shall be liable to pay to the Government the cost of such person's removal under this Act, and all other charges incurred by the State in consequence of his becoming a vagrant.

Any such consignee or agent shall be entitled to charge the consignor or principal for any payment to the Government under this section.

For the purposes of this section, 'consignee' includes any person who undertakes to dispose of such animal for the benefit of the consignor.

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Agent' includes any person who undertakes the agency of such ship, though

it may not have been consigned to him."

2. This Act shall come into force, as against any agent to whom ship may have been consigned, on the first day of January 1872,

as against all other persons, on the passing thereof.

3. This Act shall be read with, and taken as part of, the European Vagrancy Act, 1869.

ACT No. XXIX OF 1871.

An Act for repealing certain Regulations of the Bengal Code which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.

1. Extent of repeal.

Whereas it is expedient that the Regulations mentioned in the Schedule annexed to this Act which have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express repeal, or have by change of circumstances become unnecessary, or which merely