#THE INDIAN TOLLS ACT, 1864 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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Preamble. 

##SECTIONS 

1. [Omitted.].

2. Collectors of tolls may compound for tolls leviable under Act 8 of 1851 or this Act.

3. Power to extend Act.

SCHEDULE.—[Omitted.].



#THE INDIAN TOLLS ACT, 1864 [^1]

##ACT NO. 15 OF 1864 

[24th March, 1864.]

An Act to amend Act 8 of 1851 (for enabling Government to levy Tolls on Public Roads and 
Bridges). 

**Preamble.**—WHEREAS by Act 8 of 1851  (for enabling Government to levy Tolls on Public Roads and 
Bridges) authority was given for the levy of certain rates of toll 2***; It is enacted as follows:— 

1. [Schedule of Act8 of 1851 repealed, and another Schedule substituted].—Omitted by the Devolution Act, 
1920 (38 of 1920), s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 14-9-1920).

2. **Collectors of tolls may compound for tolls leviable under Act 8 of 1851 or this Act.**—Any person 
entrusted with the management of the collection of tolls[^3] under Act 8 of 1851 may in his discretion compound 
for any period not exceeding one year with any person for a certain sum to be paid by such person for himself 
or for any vehicle or animal kept by him, in lieu of the rates of toll  4[authorized to be levied under the said 
Act 8 of 1851]. 

3. **Power to extend Act.**—The State Government may extend this[^5] Act to any place in which the said Act 
8 of 1851 is in force; and the State Government of any place in which the said Act 8 of 1851 is not in force 
may extend the said Act 8 of 1851 and this Act to such place.[^6]


[^1]. Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897). 

This  Act has  been  declared  to  be  in  force  in  the  Santhal  Parganas  by  the  Santhal  Parganas  Settlement  Regulation,  1872  (3  of 
1872), s. 3, in the C. P. and the Sambalpur District by the C. P. Laws Act, 1875 (20 of 1875). 

It  has  been  declared  by  notification  under  s.  3(a)  of  the  Scheduled  Districts  Act,  1874  (14  of  1874),  to  be  in  force  in  the 
following Scheduled Districts, namely:—  

The Districts of Hazaribagh Lohardaga (now  
the Ranchi District, see Calcutta Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, 
p. 44), and Manbhum, and Pargana Dhalbhum and the 
Kolhan in the District of Singhbhum . 
The District of Lahaul .   
It  has  been  extended,  by  notification  under  s.  5  of  the  last-mentioned  Act,  to  the  Scheduled  District  of  Coorg  See  Gazette  of 

. See Gazette of India,  
.Ditto 

1881, Pt. I, p. 504. 
1886, Pt. I, p. 301.

India, 1878, Pt. I, p. 45. 

The  Act  has  been  extended  to  Ajmer-Merwara  along  with  Act  8  of  1851,  see  Gazette  of  India,  1889,  Pt.  II,  p.  562;  to  the 
Scheduled Districts in Vizagapatam and Ganjam, see Fort St. George Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, p.1486, and ibid., 1900, Pt. I, p. 1101, 
respectively; and to the District of Darjeeling, see Calcutta Gazette, 1934, Pt. I. p. 179. 

The Act has been extended to the Union territory of Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968, s. 3 and the Schedule. 
The Act is to be deemed to be and to have been in force in the Punjab, from the 24th March, 1864, see the Indian Tolls Act, 1888 
(8 of 1888), s. 1, and tolls levied or purporting to have been levied under the Act before the passing  of Act 8 of 1888, are to be 
deemed to have been lawfully levied—see s. 3, ibid. 

The Act has been repealed in Mysore by Mysore Act 29 of 1958. 
The Act has been amended in Andhra Pradesh by Andhra Pradesh Act 17 of 1975.

[^3]. The Indian Tolls Act, 1851.

[^5]. The Act now regulating tolls in the Presidency of Bombay is the Tolls on Roads and Bridges Act, 1875 (Bom. 3 of 1875). That Act 
repealed  Act  8  of  1851  in  the  Bombay  Presidency,  see  s.1,  and  declared  that  Act  15  of  1864  should  be  deemed  to  have  been 
extended thereto as from the 30th July, 1864, see s. 2.

[^6]. Act 8 of 1851 and this Act have been extended to Oudh (see Gazette of India, 1865, Pt. I, p.777), the C.P. (see ibid., Pt.I, 1871, 
p.611) and to the District of Lakhimpur (see Assam Gazette, 1935, Pt. II, p.1025). 

As to the authority of the Provincial Government in any part of the Provinces, not specified in s. 2 of Act 8 of 1851, to which that 
Act or this Act may be or have been extended see the Indian Tolls Act, 1888 (8 of 1888), s. 2(1).