#THE MADRAS RENT AND REVENUE SALES ACT, 1839
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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2. Tahsildars  empowered  to  sell  property  distrained.
3. Control  of  tahsildars  in  exercise  of  such  power.
5. Fees  for  selling  property  to  be  credited  to  Government.
6. Delegation  of  tahsildars  powers. 
 
 
#ACT No. VII OF 1839.[^1]

#THE MADRAS  RENT AND REVENUE  SALES  ACT,  1839.

[18th March, 1839.]

2. **Tahsildars  empowered  to  sell  property  distrained.**— All tahsildars  within  the  territories  subject  to  the 
Presidency  of Fort, St. George shall be vested with the powers of      Commissioners for the sale  of  property  distrained  for 
arrears  of  rent  or  of  revenue,  and  shall  be  subject  to  all  rules  and  provisions  to  which  by  any  law  or  regulation  such 
Commissioners are subject.

3. **Control of tahsildars in exercise  of  such power.**—Provided  always  that  in  respect  of  the  exercise  of  those 
powers  tahsildars  shall  be  subject  to  the  control  and  superintendence  of  the  Collector,  and  shall  not  be  subject  to  the 
authority of the Zila Judge, except in the case of any judicial proceedings.

5. **Fees for selling property to be credited to Government.**—Provided also that tahsildars shall not 
be entitled to any fee or commission for selling such distrained property; but that all fees or commission 
which  may  be  now  lawfully  taken  by  Commissioners  for  the  sale  of  such  distrained  property  shall  be 
taken and carried to the account of Government. 

6. **Delegation  of  tahsildars  powers.**—And  it  is  hereby  enacted  that tahsildars  shall  have  authority, 
subject to the orders of the Collector, to delegate the powers vested in them by the second section of this 
Act to any public servants placed under their authority; and that the provisions of sections 3 and 5 of 
this Act shall apply to all public servants to whom those powers shall have been so delegated in the same 
manner as they apply to tahsildars. 

[^1]. The short title was given by the  Repealing  and  Amending  Act, 1901 (Central Act XI of 1901). 
    This Act was declared to be in force in the whole of the Madras Presidency, except the Scheduled District, by the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874  (XV of  1874) 
s. 4. General Acts, Vol. II. 

It was extended, under s. 5 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, to be Scheduled Districts in Ganjam and Vizagapatam---see Gazette of India, 

1898, Pt. I, p. 872; and the Scheduled Districts in Godavari except the Nugar Tahuq—see ibid. 1910, Pt. I, p. 1161.