Lists Of British Enactments In Force In Native States, Northern India 1891 Comprising The Native States In Bengal, Assam, Burma, The North-Western Provinces And The Panjab, the Native States Of Kashmir And Nepal, And The Native States in Baluchistan Corrected Up To The 20th May 1891

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1142) [Part VII—Jamuu anv Kasuurr.]

2CHAPTER I1.—THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR RAILWAY—coneluded.

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4APPENDIX.

5No. 1458-T., dated the 8th April, 1891.—Whereas His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and

6Kashmir hag ceded to the | ritish Govornment full jurisdiction within those lands which lie within

7his State and are occupied, or may be hereafter vecupied, by the Sialkot-Jammu section of the

8North-Western Railway system, including the lands occupied by stations, and ont-buildings and

9for other purposes connected with the said section: In exercise of this jurisdiction, and of the

10powers conferred by sections 4 and 6 of the Foreign Jurisdiction and Extradition Act, 1879, and of

11all other powers enabling bim in this behalf, the Governor-General in Council is pleased to issue

12the following orders :—

13(1) All laws for the time being in force in the Sialkot District of the Punjab shall be deom-

14ed in force in the aforesaid lands.

15(2) The Deputy Commissioner of the Sialkot District, the Commiasioner of the Rawalpind

16Division, the Financial Commissioners of the Punjab, and the Lieutenant-Giovernor

17of the Punjab and its Dependencies for the time being, shall respectively have,

18within the aforesaid Jands, the same executive powers as they may respectively

19exercise withiu the British territoiies subject to their adininistration.

20(3) All British Courts having jurisdiction within the Sialkot District may exercise the

21same jurisdiction within the aforesaid lands.

22(4) Within the aforesaid lands the administration of the Police shall be vested in the Assist-

23ant Inspector General of Railway Police or such other officer as the said Lieutenant

24Governor may appoint by name or in virtue of his office in that behalf. The Assist-

25ant Inspector General or other officer aforesaid shall have the same Police powers as

26may be exercised by the District Superintendent of Police under any law for the time

27being in force in the Sialkot District, in subordination to the Deputy Commissioner

28of the Sialkot District and the Inspector General of Police in the Punjab.

29[Seo Gazette of India, 1891, Pt. I, p. 286.]

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31(a) ‘he correct name of thie line is believed to be ‘‘ The Jammu and Kashmir Railway ’’—see p 115, supra.