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A.D. 1824.] REGULATION 1. 685
tion II. 1819, to assess the lands so occupied by the salt department, if
the same be chargeable with revenue on account of the rent paid by that
department, or the collections otherwise made by the party claiming to be
proprietor.
X. Salt lands may be occupied as heretofore by the officers of
the salt department, an adequate compensation being made to the proprie-
tors, if the lands be private property. The salt agent, on taking posses-
sion of any such land, shall notify the circumstance, by causing a dag to
be exhibited on the spot, and by publishing an ishtahar, defining as
accurately as possible the situation and limits of the land occupied
by him, such ishtahar to be stuck up in the collector's cutcherry, and
the agent's own office ; and persons claiming to be proprietors of such
land, who may neglect or delay to prefer such claims, shall not be held
entitled to any arrears of rent beyond the year in which their claim may
be afterwards preferred.
Upon any zemindar preferring a claim to property in lands
occupied for the salt manufacture, and for which no rent or consideration
shall have hitherto been paid to any individual, the salt agent and collector,
or both, where the two offices maybe held separately, shall either proceed
in person, or depute a substitute or substitutes, being, if possible,
European public officers, to determine, by inquiries on the spot, how far,
with reference to the principle laid down in Section III. Regulation II.
1819, the chur or other salt land is part of the zemindar's assessed estate.
The collector will, at the same time, call upon the zemindar to produce
any evidence or documents on which he may rely in proof of his claim, and
shall regularly enter the same on the proceedings, together with a state-
ment of the fact, established by local inquiry (whether conducted by the
collector himself, or by an officer specially commissioned), and shall finally
record his own opinion on the case in a Persian or Bengali)* roobakarree.
If the collector shall be satisfied that the land in question is part of the
zemindar's estate, he shall adjust, subject to the instructions of the Board
of Revenue, the consideration to be paid by the salt department for the
use of the chur or other salt land, carefully specifying the extent and
limits of the same. If the zemindar shall not agree to the terms proposed
by the collector, the amount of rent or compensation to be paid shall be
settled under the rules above enacted for settling generally the course
to be followed in effecting a constrained transfer of private property for
public purposes, reference being had to any injury the zemindar may
sustain by having the manufacture conducted on his estate, as well as to
any profit he might otherwise derive from the land. If the agent shall
consider the amount awarded to the zemindar to be too great, he shall
nevertheless pay it for the first year, and may then remove. If the
agent shall agree to the award, the same rate will be paid annually
during the occupancy, without reference to what may be the subsequent
extent of the manufacture, or to the quantity of land comprised in
the chur.
TAzrc?. If on a claim being preferred as above by a zemindar, the
collector shall be of opinion that the chur or salt land belongs to Govern-
ment, he shall nevertheless proceed to adjust with the agent the amount
of rent to be paid by the salt department for the use of it, and will in this
tion II. 1819, to assess the lands so occupied by the salt department, if
the same be chargeable with revenue on account of the rent paid by that
department, or the collections otherwise made by the party claiming to be
proprietor.
X. Salt lands may be occupied as heretofore by the officers of
the salt department, an adequate compensation being made to the proprie-
tors, if the lands be private property. The salt agent, on taking posses-
sion of any such land, shall notify the circumstance, by causing a dag to
be exhibited on the spot, and by publishing an ishtahar, defining as
accurately as possible the situation and limits of the land occupied
by him, such ishtahar to be stuck up in the collector's cutcherry, and
the agent's own office ; and persons claiming to be proprietors of such
land, who may neglect or delay to prefer such claims, shall not be held
entitled to any arrears of rent beyond the year in which their claim may
be afterwards preferred.
Upon any zemindar preferring a claim to property in lands
occupied for the salt manufacture, and for which no rent or consideration
shall have hitherto been paid to any individual, the salt agent and collector,
or both, where the two offices maybe held separately, shall either proceed
in person, or depute a substitute or substitutes, being, if possible,
European public officers, to determine, by inquiries on the spot, how far,
with reference to the principle laid down in Section III. Regulation II.
1819, the chur or other salt land is part of the zemindar's assessed estate.
The collector will, at the same time, call upon the zemindar to produce
any evidence or documents on which he may rely in proof of his claim, and
shall regularly enter the same on the proceedings, together with a state-
ment of the fact, established by local inquiry (whether conducted by the
collector himself, or by an officer specially commissioned), and shall finally
record his own opinion on the case in a Persian or Bengali)* roobakarree.
If the collector shall be satisfied that the land in question is part of the
zemindar's estate, he shall adjust, subject to the instructions of the Board
of Revenue, the consideration to be paid by the salt department for the
use of the chur or other salt land, carefully specifying the extent and
limits of the same. If the zemindar shall not agree to the terms proposed
by the collector, the amount of rent or compensation to be paid shall be
settled under the rules above enacted for settling generally the course
to be followed in effecting a constrained transfer of private property for
public purposes, reference being had to any injury the zemindar may
sustain by having the manufacture conducted on his estate, as well as to
any profit he might otherwise derive from the land. If the agent shall
consider the amount awarded to the zemindar to be too great, he shall
nevertheless pay it for the first year, and may then remove. If the
agent shall agree to the award, the same rate will be paid annually
during the occupancy, without reference to what may be the subsequent
extent of the manufacture, or to the quantity of land comprised in
the chur.
TAzrc?. If on a claim being preferred as above by a zemindar, the
collector shall be of opinion that the chur or salt land belongs to Govern-
ment, he shall nevertheless proceed to adjust with the agent the amount
of rent to be paid by the salt department for the use of it, and will in this