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Scheduled Districts.®

As regards the extent and nature of the law in force, the
old distinction of *‘ regulation” and “non-regulation” has
virtually lost its meaning. Many of the old regulations have
been repealed or superseded, and some of those that remain
have been expressly declared to apply to the non-regulation
provinces. Not only so, but all the more important branches
of legislation,—Civil and Criminal Procedure, Land Revenue,
Stamps, Excise, Irrigation, the Law of Contract, the Criminal
Law,—have been provided for either by general Acts which
apply to all the provinces at large, or by special Acts containing
 local details, but resembling each other in principle. But
there is still a practical distinction of another kind to be
mentioned, which is of importance, and likely long to be mainrained.


There are portions of the older regulation provinces, and
also portions of the newer non-regulation provinces themselves,
which are “extra regulation” in a perfectly valid and current
sense. These are now spoken of as the “scheduled districts,”
under the Act (XIV of 1874) passed to place them on an intellirible
 basis as regards the laws in force in them.

The list may be summarised as follows :—

Scheduled Districts, Bengal.

I.—The Jalpaiglri and Datjiling Divisions.
IT.—The Hill Tracts of Chittagong.
[II.—The Sontdl Parganas.
IV.—The Chutid Ndgpur Division,
V.—The Mah4l of Angil (in Orissa). [Bénki has recently
been excluded and now forms part of the ordinary
Pari district.)

Powell’s Revenue Manual, Cap. I, pp. 37—40.