In this Act, "embankment" means any embankment constructed for the purpose of excluding, regulating or retaining water, and includes all earthen walls, dams, canals, drains, piers, groins, sluices, buildings, water-gauges, bench-marks and other works subsidiary to any such embankment; "Embankment-officer" means any officer appointed by a notification of the President of the Union to be an Embankment-officer in respect of any embankment. The Deputy Commissioner of any district in which the whole or any part of an embankment is situated shall cause to be prepared (a) a list of the village-tracts in the neighbourhood of the embankment of each of which the headman shall be liable to furnish able-bodied persons for employment on such embankment wjien so required under section 5, clause (a); (b) a list or lists setting down the maximum number of such able-bodied persons which each headman shall be liable to furnish. The Act further makes provisions for the powers, functions and duties of the embankment-officer, offences and penalties, etc.
Мьянма · 1910-10-15