13. Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays fines and charges
If the owner of the impounded cattle or his agent appear and claim the cattle, the pound –keeper shall deliver them to him
on payment of the fines and charges incurred in respect of such cattle.
The owner or his agent, on taking back the cattle, shall sign a receipt for them in the register kept by the pound-keeper.
14. Procedure if cattle be not claimed within a week
If the cattle be not claimed within seven days from the date of their being impounded, the pound-keeper shall report the
fact to the officer in charge of the nearest police-station, or to such other officer as the Magistrate of the District appoints
in this behalf.
Such officer shall thereupon stick up in a conspicuous part of his office a notice starting--
(a) the number and description of the cattle,
(b) the placed where they were seized,
(c) the place where they are impounded,
and shall cause proclamation of the same to be made by beat of drum in the village and at the market – place nearest to
the place of seizure.
If the cattle be not claimed within seven days from the date of the notice, they shall be sold by public auction by the said
officer, or an officer of his establishment deputed for that purpose, at such place and time and subject to such conditions
as the Magistrate of the District by general or special order from time to time directs :
Provided that if any such cattle are, in the opinion of the Magistrate of the District, not likely to fetch a fair price if sold as
aforesaid, they may be disposed of in such manner as he thinks fit.
15. Delivery to owner disputing legality of seizure, but making deposit
If the owner or his agent appear and refuse to pay the said fines and expenses, on the ground that the seizure was illegal,
and that the owner is about to make a complaint under section 20, then upon deposit of the fines and charges incurred in
respect of the cattle, the cattle shall be delivered to him.
16. Procedure when owner refuses of omits to pay the fines and expenses
If the owner or his agent appear and refuse or omit to pay or (in the case mentioned in section 15) to deposit the said
fines and expenses, the cattle, or as many of them as may be necessary, shall be sold by public auction by such officer,
at such place and time and subject to such conditions as are referred to in section 14.
Delivery of unsold cattle and balance of proceeds
The remaining cattle and the balance of the purchase- money, if any, shall be delivered to the owner or his agent,
together with an account showing,--
(a) the number of cattle seized,
(b) the time during which they have been impounded,
(c) the amount of fines and charges incurred,
(d) the number of cattle sold,
(e) the proceeds of sale, and
(f) the manner in which those proceeds have been disposed of,
Delivery of unsold cattle and balance of proceeds
The owner or his agent shall give a receipt for the cattle delivered to him and for the balance of the purchase-money (if
any) paid to him according to such account.
17. Disposal of fines, expenses and surplus proceeds of sale
The officer by whom the sale was made shall send to the Magistrate of the District the fines so deducted.
The charges for feedings and watering deducted under section 16 shall be paid over to the pound-keeper, who shall also
retain and appropriate all sums received by him on account of such charges under section 13.
The surplus unclaimed proceeds of the sale of cattle shall be sent to the Magistrate of the District, who shall hold them in
deposit for three months, and, if no claim thereto be preferred and established within that period shall, at its expiry, 13[be
deemed to hold them as part of the revenues of the State].
[Section 18 repealed by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937]
19. Officers and pound-keepers not to purchase cattle at sales under Act
No officer of police, or other officer or pound –keeper appointed under the provisions herein contained shall, directly or
indirectly, purchases any cattle at a sale under this Act.
Pound-keepers when not to release impounded cattle
No pound-keeper shall release or deliver any impounded cattle otherwise than in accordance with the former part of this
Chapter , unless such release or delivery is ordered by a Magistrate or Civil Court.