...and to remove, as far as possible, existing causes of irritation on the part of the hill Zamindars, arising from the unbending forms of Regulation Procedure,...Government, and forms the basis of Act XXIV of 1839. The tracts exempted by this enactment from the operation of the general regulations are as follow :...

...disturbances in the hill country, the territories of the zaminddrs in that part of the District were exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and placed exclusively under the Collector, in whom was vested the entire administration of civil and criminal justice, with the title of Agent...