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THE INDIAN TOLLS ACT, 1851 1*
ACT NO. 8 OF 1851
[4th July, 1851]
An Act for enabling Government to levy Tolls on Public Roads and Bridges.Preamble.--WHEREAS it is expedient to enable Government to levytolls upon roads and bridges; It is enacted as follows:-
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1. [Repeal of Acts.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1870 (14 of 1870), s. 1 and Sch, Pt. II.
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Extent.
2*[1A. Extent.--This Act extends to the territories administered on the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, bythe Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, the Lieutenant-Governor of North-Western Provinces of Bengal and the Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George in Council.]
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1. Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of1897).
This Act should be read with the Indian Tolls Act, 1864 (15of 1864), and the Indian Tolls Act, 1888 (8 of 1888).This Act has been amended in Assam by Assam Act 3 of 1931and Act 1 of 1932; C.P. by C.P. Act 8 of 1932, Madras by Madras Act 6 of 1938, Act 14 of 1942 and Act 26 of 1950. This Act is deemed to be in force throughout the territories administered by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab on the 5th
September, 1888 and to have been in force, from the 21st August 1857, in the territories for the time being administered as part of the Punjab. It has been extended under s. 3 of Act 15 of 1864 to Ajmer and Merwara, see Gazette of India 1889, Pt. II, p. 562. It has been declared to be in force in the C.P. and the
Sambalpur District by the C.P. Laws Act, 1875 (20 of 1875), s. 3; in the Sonthal Parganas by the Sonthal Parganas Settlement Regulation, 1872 (3 of 1872), s.3. 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
