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passed by an experienced judicial officer of government ;
under these circumstances, any investigation that may be
held by a special commissioner, when appealed to him
against the decision of a collector, would, in point of fact,
be the first as well as last judicial trial.
Your petitioners further beg your Lordship's liberal
consideration of the long period that has elapsed since
the officers of government were commanded to inquire
into the validity of the tenures of lakrauj lands. Severe1
as the provisions of the present Regulations are. and
widely as they depart from the spirit of that of Lord
Cornwallis, it would have been happy for the people, had
even such modes of investigation as are there laid down
been acted upon with promptitude. Not only, however,
has the cautious and just regard for the safety of private
property evinced by that just and wise statesman been
set aside, but that, too, under circumstances in man)'
instances far more unfavourable for the security of your
native subjects than if their rights had been tried at his
time.
Sunnuds, and other records, which might then have
been produced so as to place your petitioners' titles
beyond dispute, have, from the many accidents to which
papers are liable, been lost or destroyed. In cases of
disputed and divided succession, and of dispossession bv
judicial or revenue sales, your Lordship will readily
understand how often the possession of the titles must
have been withheld from the actual owner of land, how-
ever rightful his succession to the property. Fire inunda-
tion, and the ravages of destructive insects or vermin,
have, in the course of thirty-five years, necessarily caused
many important documents to perish, and it is after the
under these circumstances, any investigation that may be
held by a special commissioner, when appealed to him
against the decision of a collector, would, in point of fact,
be the first as well as last judicial trial.
Your petitioners further beg your Lordship's liberal
consideration of the long period that has elapsed since
the officers of government were commanded to inquire
into the validity of the tenures of lakrauj lands. Severe1
as the provisions of the present Regulations are. and
widely as they depart from the spirit of that of Lord
Cornwallis, it would have been happy for the people, had
even such modes of investigation as are there laid down
been acted upon with promptitude. Not only, however,
has the cautious and just regard for the safety of private
property evinced by that just and wise statesman been
set aside, but that, too, under circumstances in man)'
instances far more unfavourable for the security of your
native subjects than if their rights had been tried at his
time.
Sunnuds, and other records, which might then have
been produced so as to place your petitioners' titles
beyond dispute, have, from the many accidents to which
papers are liable, been lost or destroyed. In cases of
disputed and divided succession, and of dispossession bv
judicial or revenue sales, your Lordship will readily
understand how often the possession of the titles must
have been withheld from the actual owner of land, how-
ever rightful his succession to the property. Fire inunda-
tion, and the ravages of destructive insects or vermin,
have, in the course of thirty-five years, necessarily caused
many important documents to perish, and it is after the