Every pound-keeper shall keep such registers, and furnish suchreturns as the Government may, trom time to time, direct.
7. To register serzures—-When cattle are brought to a pound, the pound-keeper shall enter in his register —
(a) the number and description of the cattle ;
(b) the day and hour on antl at which they were so brought ;
{c) the name and residence of the seizure ; and
(a) the name and the residence of the owner, if known, The seizure shall affix his signature in the register. The poundkeeper shall give the seizure or lus agent a copy of the entues aforesaid.
8 To take charge of and feed cattle—The pound-keeper shall take charge of feed and water the cattleuntile they are disposed of as hereinafter directed,
CHAPTER III IMPOUNDING CATTLE 9, Caitle damaging land may be seized and police to aid such seizures —
(1) The cultivator or occupier of any land, or any person who has acquired a right for the cultivation of the crop or produce on any land, or the vendee or mortgagee of such crop or produce or any part thereof, may seize, or cause to be seized, any cattle trespassing on such land, and doing damage thereto or to any ctop or produce thereon, and send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours to the pound established for the area in which the land 1s situate.
(2) All officers of Police shall, when required, aid in preventing—
(a) resistance to such seizures, and
(b) rescues from persons making such seizures, 10 Catile damaging public reads, canals and embankments.—Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure grounds, plantations wherein common grazing grounds are available, canals, drainage works, tanks embankments, and the like and officers of Police, officers employed by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions and such other officers as the Director may empower in this behalf, may seize, or cause to be 492 seized, any cattle doing damage to such reads, grounds, plantations, canals drainage works, tanks, embankments and the like or the sides 01 slopes of such roads, canals, dramage works, tanks or embankments or found straying thereon, and shall send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours, to the nearest pound.
IL. Fines for cattle rmpounded.—(1) For every head of cattle impounded as aforesaid the pound-keeper shall levy a fine in accordance with the scale for the tume being prescribed by the Director in this behalf by notification in the Gazette. Dufferent scales may be prescribed for different local areas and for different kinds of cattle.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), when it appears to the Director that in any local area cattle are habitually allowed to trespass on land and damage crops or other produce thereon, he may, by notification in the Gazette, direct that for every head of cattle of any kind specified thercin which may be seized within such local area and impounded as aforesaid, such amount of fine as may be specified by him in the said notification, not exceeding double the fine prescribed under sub-section (1), shall be levied.
(3) All fines levied under this section shall be credited to the fund of the local authority or where there 1s no Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council or panchayat, in such manner as the Government may, from time to time, direct.
(4) A list of the fines and of the rates of charge for feeding and watering cattle shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place on, or near to, every pound.
CHAPTER IV DELIVERY OR SALE OF CATTLE
12. Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays fines and charges.~—
(a) Ifthe owner ofthe impounded cattle or his agent appears and claims the cattle the pound-keeper shall deliver them to him on payment of the fines and charges incurred in respect of such cattle.
(b) The owner or his agent, on taking back the cattle shall sign a reccipt for them in the register kept by the pound-keeper.