The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday March 20 1933

The communique is in the folowing terms :- It has come to the notice of the Government that owing to the recent revaluation operaticus the eis. [...] tricts of Pabna Bogra and Khulna The demands of these districts have increased considerably and that ming to the fall in prices of agricultural produce the want of cash due to present economic conditions and the occurrence of severe floods in the former two districts in 1933 the collection of cesses in all the three districts has fallen into heavy arrears. [...] The District Board of Pabna has passed a resolution to the effect that the rite of road-cess in that district should be reduced to three pies per rupee for the year 1933-34 and the Governor in Council has decided to sanction the proposal The question of granting relief in respect of arrears accumulating up to the end of 1932-33 has also been under con-ideration. [...] The tax realised by the Union Board is applied to the maintenance or improvement of village pathways while the cess goes to the District and the Local Boards for the maintenance or construction of inter-district or inter-union roads. [...] The insistence on as many as eighty years seems to suggest that the length of the term was considered vital and unless some representative of the deceased convict was brought on the record and compelled to serve the remainder there would be a clear risk of the man flouting the law by his death as he had broken it in life.