Bengal Police-Powers of Tahsildar Regulation 1831

Whereas with a view to improve the efficiency of the police, it is expedient that, in districts of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces in which tahsildari establishments are maintained subject to the authority of the Collectors, the State Government be empowered, by orders to vest the tahsildars with the powers at present exercised by daroghas of police the following rules have accordingly been enacted, to be in force from the date of their promulgation throughout the Provinces aforesaid.