2. In the fourth paragraph of section 7 of the Negotiable Instruments Amendment of section 7, Act Act, 1881, for the words "When acceptance is refused and the bill is protested for non-acceptance" the following shall be substituted, namely:-" When a bill of exchange has been noted or protested for nonacceptance or for better security.' New section inserted after sec tion 45 of the same Act. Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill. 3. After section 45 of the same Act the following shall be inserted: "45A. Where a bill of exchange has been lost before it is over-due, the person who was the holder of it may apply to the drawer to give him another bill of the same tenor, giving security to the drawer, if required, to indemnify him against all persons whatever in case the bill alleged to have been lost shall be found again. "If the drawer on request as aforesaid refuses to give such duplicate bill, he may be compelled to do so." Addition to sections 61 and 64 of the same Act. 4. To section 61, and the first paragraph of section 64, of the same Act, the following shall be added : "Where authorized by agreement or usage, a presentment through the post office by means of a registered letter is sufficient." Addition to section 101 of the same Act. 5. To section 101 of the same Act the following shall be added: "A notary public may make the demand mentioned in clause (c) of this section either in person or by his clerk or, where authorised by agreement or usage, by registered letter." Section inserted after section 104 of the same Act. When noting equivalent to protest. 6. After section 104 of the same Act the following shall be inserted: "104A. For the purposes of this Act, where a bill or note is required to be protested within a specified time or be. fore some further proceeding is taken, it is sufficient that the bill has been noted for protest before the expiration of the specified time or the taking of the proceeding; and the formal protest may be extended at any time thereafter as of the date of the noting." XI/911.2(1) 7. In the same Act, section 108, the second sentence is repealed. 8. In the same Act, section 109, (a) for the words "in the presence of a notary public subscribe the bill with his own hand and "the following shall be substituted, namely:-"by writing on the bill under his hand"; and 2 1 X1/91 1.211/Jd I (b) the last twelve words are repealed. Amendment of section 113 of same Act. New chapter added to same Act. 9. In the same Act, section 113, after the words "the person so paying" the words "or his agent in that behalf" shall be inserted. 10. After Chapter XVI. of the same Act, the following shall be inserted: "CHAPTER XVII. "NOTARIES PUBLIC. "138. The Governor General in Council may, from time to time, by Power to appoint notaries public. notification in the offical Gazette, appoint any person, by name or by virtue of his office, to be a notary public under this Act and to exercise his functions as such within any local area, and may, by like notification, remove from office any notary public appointed under this Act. "139. The Governor General in Council may, from time to time, by Power to make rules for notaries public. under this Act, and may, by payable to such notaries." notification in the official Gazette(a), make Act No. III. of 1885. RECEIVED THE ASSENT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL ON THE An Act to amend the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. 1. For the fifth clause of section 1 of Amendment of section 1 of the said Act the following shall be substituted, Act IV. of 1882. namely: "And any Local Government may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, exempt, either retrospectively or prospectively, any part of the territories administered by such Local Government from all or any of the following provisions, namely: "Sections fifty-four, paragraphs two and three, fifty-nine, one hundred and seven and one hundred and twenty-three." 2. The following clause shall be deemed to have been added to the first section of the said Act from the date on which it came into force, namely: Addition to same section. 8. 139 (a).--See G. G. 1886, p. 913. "Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing part of this section, sections fifty-four, paragraphs two and three, fifty-nine, one hundred and seven and one hundred and twenty-three shall not extend or be extended to any district or tract of country for the time being excluded from the operation of the Indian Registration Act, 1877, under the power conferred by the first section of that Act or otherwise." Addition to section 4 of same Act. 3. To section 4 of the said Act the following shall be added, namely: "And sections fifty-four, paragraphs two and three, fifty-nine, one hundred and seven and one hundred and twenty-three shall be read as supplemental to the Indian Registration Act, 1877." Addition to section 6 of same Act. 4. To section 6 of the said Act the following clause shall be added : "(i) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorize a tenant having an untransferable right of occupancy, the farmer of an estate in respect of which default has been made in paying revenue or the lessee of an estate under the management of a Court of Wards to assign his interest as such tenant, farmer or lessee." Amendment of section 69 of 5. In section 69 of the said Act same Act. (a) after the words "is valid in the following cases" the words " and in no others" shall be inserted; and (b) after the words "Hindu, Muhammadan or Buddhist," in both places where they occur, there shall be inserted the words "or a member of any other race, sect, tribe or class from time to time specified in this behalf. by the Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, in the local official Gazette." 2 X 692201389ch 11 Act No. IV. of 1885. (Oudh.) Act No. V. of 1885. RECEIVED THE ASSENT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL ON THE An Act to amend the Indian Ports Act, 1875. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Indian Ports Act, 1875, in manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted as follows: the Indian Ports Act, 1875. 1. In section 42 of the said Act, for the words "Conservator of every port to which such order relates, and in the Amendment of section 42 of custom-house, if any, of every port subject to this Act" the following shall be substituted, namely:-"Conservator, and at the custom-house, if any, of every port to which such order relates." Addition to section 47 of the same Act. 2. To the fourth paragraph of section 47 of the said Act the following shall be added, namely: "The expenses aforesaid shall also include the pensions, allowances and gratuities of persons who have been employed under this Act in the port, or such portion of those pensions, allowances and gratuities as the Local Government may by rule determine." 3. After the fifth paragraph of the same section the following shall be Further addition to the same section. inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted from the date on which the said Act came into force, namely :-" With the previous sanction of the Local Government the authorities of any port may, from time to time, contribute a sum from the Port Fund Account of that port for all or any of the purposes mentioned in section sixty. "The sum so contributed shall, if, and so long as, the Local Government so directs, be in substitution of any Hospital Port-dues imposed under section fifty-nine at that port." 4. To the third paragraph of section 59 of the same Act the following shall be added, namely:-" The Local Government may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, cancel any such order." Addition to paragraph 3, section 59, of the same Act. 5. (Relates only to the Lower Provinces.) Act No. VI. of 1885. (N. India, &c.) Act No. VII. of 1885. RECEIVED THE ASSENT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL ON THE An Act to amend the law in force in the Pánch Maháls. WHEREAS it is expedient that the law in force in the territory comprised in the Pánch Maháls should, on and from the first day of May, 1885, be the same as the law in force in the district of Kaira, in the Bombay Presidency, and that the said territory should, on and from that day, cease to be a scheduled district under the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, and the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874; It is hereby enacted as follows: Short title. -. 1. This Act may be called the Pánch Maháls Laws Act, 1885. XT1/911261 2. (1) Save and except the enactments specified in the schedule Laws of Kaira to apply. hereto annexed, all enactments which on the first day of May, 1885, are in force in the district of Kaira and not in the Pánch Maháls shall be deemed to come into force in the Pánch Maháls on that day. (2) All enactments which on that day are in force in the Pánch Maháls and not in the district of Kaira shall be deemed to be repealed on and from that day in the Other laws repealed. Pánch Maháls. Pending proceedings. 3. All proceedings commenced before any authority in the Pánch Maháls before the first day of May, 1885, and still pending on that day, shall be disposed of by such authority as the Local Government may direct, and, save as aforesaid, shall be carried on as if this Act had not been passed. 4. On and from the first day of May, 1885, the Pánch Maháls shall Territory to cease to be a scheduled district. Partial repeal of Acts XIV. Ich IP. and XV. of 1874. cease to be a scheduled district; and in Part II. of the First Schedule to the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, and in the same Part of the Sixth Schedule to the Laws Local Extent Aet, 1874, the words "The Pánch Muháls" shall be repealed! THE SCHEDULE. ENACTMENTS EXCEPTED FROM THE OPERATION OF SECTION 2. Number and year. Title. Extent of exception. VIII. of 1870...... For the prevention of the murder of female infants. The whole. Number and year. V. of 1862 ... V. of 1879..... Acts of the Governor of Bombay in Council. Title. Extent of exception. For the preservation of the Bhágdári and Narwádári The whole. To consolidate and amend the law relating to Section 85 and last section 58. S. 3.-See G. G. 1885, p. 417; Ib. 1888, p. 117. |