The provided document excerpt begins during a subsection regarding Section 155 and covers Sections 155 through 165.

Power of Settlement Officer to divide or unite villages or exclude area therefrom. — The Settlement Officer may, with the previous sanction of the Settlement Commissioner,— (a) divide a village into two or more villages; or (b) unite two or more villages into one; or (c) exclude any area from a village and constitute such area into a separate village.