Clarke, Richard [Editor]: 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)

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REGULATION XXV.

[A.D. 1803.

other personal appropriations of the gross produce of his estate, as such
can have no claim to consideration in determining the neat produce for
an equal division of landed property, or for the allotment of the public
assessment thereon, in conformity to the rules prescribed. The neat pro-
duce, as here defined, shall be ascertained in the mode that is or shall be
prescribed by the Regulations, and the purchaser or purchasers of such
lands, and his, her, or their heirs and lawful successors, shall hold them at
the jumma at which they may be so purchased, subject to the general
rules in force at the time of sale for the periodical or permanent assess-
ment of the land revenue.
When a portion of the estate of a zemindar, independent
talookdar, or other actual proprietor of land, with or on behalf of whom a
settlement has been or shall be concluded, shall be exposed to public
sale, by order of the Governor-General in Council, for the liquidation of
arrears of assessment, o?' A? o/ a coaoif of jG.sAcd, the
assessment upon such lands, if disposed of in one lot, shall be fixed at an
amount which shall bear the same proportion to their actual neat produce,
as the assessment upon the whole of the lands of such proprietor, included
in the same estate, may bear to the whole of their actual neat produce. If
the lands sold should be disposed of in two or more lots, the assessment upon
each lot shall be fixed at an amount which shall bear the same proportion
to its actual neat produce, as the assessment upon the whole of the lands
of such proprietor, included in the same estate, may bear to the whole of
their actual neat produce. The actual neat produce of the whole of the
lands of such proprietor, whether the portion of them which may be sold
be disposed of in one, or in two or more lots, shall be ascertained in the
mode that is or shall be prescribed by the Regulations; and the purchaser
or purchasers of such lands, and his, her, or their heirs or successors, will
be allowed to hold them at the jumma at which they may be so purchased,
subject to the general rules in force at the time of sale, for the periodical
or permanent assessments of the land revenue.
AAAA When a zemindar, independent talookdar, or other actual pro-
prietor of land, with or on behalf of whom a settlement has been or shall be
concluded, shall transfer the whole of his or her estate, in two or more
distinct portions, to two or more persons, or a portion thereof to one per-
son, or to two or more persons in joint property, by private sale, gift, or
otherwise, the assessment upon each distinct portion of such estate, so
transferred, shall be fixed by the collector or other authorized officer of
Government, at an amount which shall bear the same proportion to its actual
neat produce, as the assessment upon the whole of the estate of the trans-
ferring proprietor, of which the whole or a portion may be so transferred,
may bear to the whole of its actual neat produced This produce shall be
ascertained in the mode that is or shalf be prescribed in the Regulations,
and the person or persons to whom such lands may be transferred, and
his, or her, or their heirs and lawful successors, shall hold them at the
jumma at which they maybe so transferred, after the same shall have been
duly sanctioned and registered, and engaged for, subject to the general
rules in force at the time of transfer, for the periodical or permanent
assessment of the land revenue.
Whenever a division shall be made of lands, the settlement of
which has been or shall be concluded with, or on behalf of, the proprietor