Embankment Act.

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.