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1The Cattle-trespass Act, 1871

( ACT NO. I OF 1871 )

Chapter III

IMPOUNDING CATTLE

Cattle damaging land
10. The cultivator or occupier of any land,
 
 
or any person who has advanced cash for the cultivation of the crop or produce on any land,
 
 
or the vendee or mortgagec of such crop or produce or any part thereof,
 
 
may seize or cause to be seized any cattle trespassing on such land, and doing damage thereto or to any crop or produce thereon, and send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours to the pound established for the village in which the land is situate.
Police to aid seizures
All officers of police shall, when required, aid in preventing (a) resistance to such seizures, and (b) rescues from persons making such seizures.
Cattle damaging public roads, canals and embankments
11. Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure-grounds, plantations, canals, drainage-works, embankments and the like and officers of police, may seize or cause to be seized any cattle doing damage to such roads, grounds, plantations, canals, drainage-works, embankments and the like, or the sides or slopes of such roads, canals, drainage-works or embankments or found straying thereon,
 
 
and shall send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours to the nearest pound.
Fines for cattle impounded
12. For every head of cattle impounded as aforesaid, the pound-keepers shall levy a fine in accordance with the scale for the time being prescribed by the Government in this behalf by notification in the official Gazette. Different scales may be prescribed for different local areas.All fines so levied shall be sent to the Magistrate of the District through such officers as the Government may direct.
List of fines and charges for feeding
A list of the fines and of the rates of charge for feeding and watering cattle shall be posted in a conspicuous place on or near to every pound.

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    Throughout this Act, except otherwise provided, the words “Government” and “Taka” were substituted, for the words “Provincial Government” and “rupees” respectively by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
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