THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS, BOMBAY ACT, 1842

ACT NO.  17 OF 1842.

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* Passed by the Hon’ble the President of the Council of India in Council, on the 16th of December, 1842, 
with the assent of the Right hon’ble the Governor General of India. *

An  Act  relative  to  the  number  and  powers  of  the  Revenue  Commissioner  under  the  Presidency  of 
Bombay.

I. It is hereby enacted, that so much of Regulation V, of 180, of the Bombay Code, as provides that one 
Revenue Commissioner shall be appointed for the Territory subordinate to Bombay, and that the Southern 
Maharatta Country shall be excluded from his jurisdiction, is repealed.

II. And it is hereby enacted, that one or more Revenue Commissioners shall be appointed for the whole 
of the Territory composing the Presidency of Bombay, each of whom shall be vested with all the powers 
possessed by the single Revenue Commissioner, under Regulation V, 1830, and shall be empowered to act 
within the Presidency of Bombay, or over such portion as the Governor in Council of Bombay may, from 
time to time, prescribe  by a Order published in the Gazette.

III. And it he hereby enacted, that each Revenue Commissioner shall have such number of Deputies 
and Assistants, as the Governor in Council may deem it expedient to appoint.