The Calcutta Land-Revenue Act, 1856
# THE CALCUTTA LAND – REVENUE ACT, 1856
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 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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 SECTIONS.

1. Regulations modified.

2. Collection of Stamp Duty in Calcutta to be ordinarily in charge of the Collector.

3. Collector may entrust any part of his duties to his Deputy.


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# THE CALCUTTA LAND – REVENUE ACT, 1856

 ACT NO. 18 OF 1856

 PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF INDIA.

(Received the assent of the Governor General on the 23rd August, 1856.)

# AN ACT relating to the administration of the Public Revenues in the Town of Calcutta.

**Preamble: —WHEREAS it is expedient that the Collector of Calcutta should have charge of the**

collection of the Stamp Duty within the town of Calcutta, and that he should have power to employ any
Deputy Collector subordinate to him, in the performance of any art of the duties of his office: — It is enacted
as follows: —

**I.  Regulations modified : — Such part of Section VI, Regulation XII, 1826 of the Bengal Code, and**

such part of Section VI of a Rule Ordinance and Regulation for the Town of Calcutta, made and passed on
the 14[th] day of June 1827, as prescribe that an Officer being a Civil Servant of the Honorable Company
shall be specially appointed by the Governor General in Council to take charge of the collection of the
Stamp Duty within the City of Calcutta, are declared subject to the following modification.

**II. Collection of Stamp Duty in Calcutta to be ordinarily in charge of the Collector:** — The

collection of the Stamp Duty within the Town of Calcutta shall ordinarily, and unless the Lieutenant
Governor of Bengal shall otherwise direct, be in the charge of the Collector of Calcutta.

**III. Collector may entrust any part of his duties to his Deputy : — It shall be lawful for the Collector**

of Calcutta to employ any Deputy Collector subordinate to him, in the performance of any part of the duties
of his office under the said Regulation, or under Act XI of 1849, or Act XXIII of 1850; and all Rules,
Regulations, and Acts relating to the office of Deputy Collector, shall be of the same force within the Town
of Calcutta as in other parts of the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.

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