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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2CIAPTER UL.—KASUMPTY. APPENDIX-—conc?uded,

3Notifications reluting to the administration of Ciil and Criminal Justice and the

4Police and to Municipal Guvernment—concluded.

5Act, 1884, subject to the modifications hereinafter mentioned, and the rules, regulations, bye-laws,

6and orders now in force in the Municipality of Simla, so far as those rules, regulations, bye-laws,

7and orders can be made applicable.

82. The modifications of the said Act are the following, namely :—

9(1) Unless thereis something repugnant in the subject or context,

10(a) “ Municipality ” shall mean the said tract of land ;

11(5) * ss Government” shall mean the Government of the Panjab and its Deper-

12encies ;

13(c) “ Official Gazette” shall mean the Gazette of that Government; and

14(d) “‘ Commissioner ” shall mean the Commissioner of the Delhi Division.

15(2) A Municipal Committee shall not be established for the Municipality, but the Deputy

16Commissioner of Simla, for the time being, shall, within and for the Municipality,

17have all the, powers of a Municipal Committee under the said Act, and all expressions

18in that Act referring toa Municipal Committee or to any member thereof shall, for the

19purpose of the said Act, be construed, so far as the nature of the case permits, as re-

20ferring to the said Deputy Commissioner.

21(3) The Municipality shall be deemed to be a place in which a tax on buildings and lands

22paca waa ten per cent, on the annual value may be imposed under section 39 of the

23said Act.

24(4) Notwithstanding anything in the said Act or in any rule, regulation, bye-law or order,

25octroi shall not be payable in the Municipality in respect of animals or goods on which

26octroi has been paid in the Municipality of Simla.

27(6) Notwithstanding anything in section 68 of the snid Act, the said Deputy Commissioner

28may pay annually out of the Municipal Fund to the Municipal Committee of Simla

29and Rd&jé of Keonthal such sums as the Local Government may direct.

30(6) The Municipal Fund shall be kept in the Government treasury at Simla.

31(7) The tax at the rate of ten rupees per two thousand five hundred square yards or frac-

32tion of two thousand five hundred square yards, referred to in section 177 of the said

33Act, may be imposed and assessed in the said tract of land, so far as may be by the

34procedure prescribed by the Act for the imposition and assessment of tayes on im-

35moveable propeity; and the tax when so imposed and assessed shall be leviable in

36addition to any other tax Jeviable under the Act.

37[See Panjab Government Gazette, 1885, Pt. IA, p. 82.]