Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

166 REGULATION XIX. [A.D. 1793.
year 1178, or theFus- may be situated in Bengal, Behai', or Orissa), the revenue or jumnia to he
1179°' yeat ^ Government from the land shall he assessed agreeably to the rules
prescribed in Regulation VIII. 1793, for forming the settlement of estates
paying revenue to Government, and the produce shall be ascertained, and
the expense of the investigation defrayed, in the manner specified with
regard to the lands in the preceding clause. If the proprietor shall refuse
to agree to the assessment, the lands are to be let in farm or held klias,
under the rules for the decennial settlement. If the proprietor shall agree
to pay the revenue that may be required of him, the amount shall not be
liable to any variation in future, but he, and his heirs and successors, shall
hold the land at such fixed revenue for ever.

Rule for Rxing the IX. The rules in the preceding section are to be held applicable to the
on the^fdtjecmed^a lands specified in Section VI.; with this difference, that the proprietor,
Section vi. farmer, dependent talookdar, or officer of Government to whom the
revenue may be payable, shall ascertain the produce of the land without
subjecting the grantee to any expense, and submit the accounts of it to
the collector, who shall fix the revenue to be paid from the lands in per-
petuity, reporting the amount for the confirmation of the Board of
Revenue, who are empowered, in cases in which it shall appear to them
proper, to increase or reduce the amount. If the proprietor shall agree
to pay the revenue required of him, he and his heirs and successors shall
hold the lands as a dependent talook, subject to the payment of such fixed
revenue for ever.

theistDecembei- r9o^ X. ^ grants for holding land exempt from the payment of revenue,
declared null and void! whether exceeding or under one hundred begahs, that have been made
since the 1st December, 1790, or that may be hereafter made, by any other
authority than that of the Governor-General in Council, are declared null
and void, and no length of possession shall be hereafter considered to give
validity to any such grant, either with regard to the property in the soil or
the rents of it. And every person who now possesses, or may succeed to
the proprietary right in any estate or dependent talook, or wdio now holds or
may hereafter hold any estate or dependent talook in farm of Government,
or of the proprietor, or any other person, and every officer of Government
appointed to make the collections from any estate or talook held khas, is
authorized and required to collect the rents from such lands at the rates
of the pergunnah, and to dispossess the grantee of the proprietary right in
the land, and to re-annex it to the estate or talook in which it may be
situated, without making previous application to a Court of Judicature, or
sending previous or subsequent notice of the dispossession or annexation to
any officer of Government; nor shall any such proprietor, farmer, or
dependent talookdar, be liable to an increase of assessment on account of
such grants which he may resume and annul, during the term of the en-
gagements that he may be under for the payment of the revenue of such
Managers of estates estate or talook when the grant may be so resumed and annulled. The
of thV'pm^-ietors^he managers of the estates of disqualified proprietors, and of joint undivided
powers vested in pro- estates, are authorized and required to exercise, on behalf of the proprie-
prietors by this section. +__
tors, the powers vested m proprietors by this section.

Reg. IX. 1825

How proprietors and XI. Proprietors or farmers of land, or dependent talookdars, who may Seeci.i,Sec.iii,
^ ^ Reg. II. 1819.