Act XII of 1873.

Power to authorize and guarantee continuance of land in certain districts to holders on terms and conditions agreed to Clause 1st.—When the holders of lands in any of the said districts (except as is excepted in clause 2 of this section), held either wholly or partially exempt from the payment of Government land-revenue, shall consent to the terms and conditions hereinafter described, in preference to being obliged to prove their title to the exemption enjoyed by them, it shall be lawful for the [State] Government to finally authorize and guarantee by sanad the continuance in perpetuity, of the said land to the said holders, their heirs and assigns, upon the said terms, and subject to the said conditions.

Clause 2nd.—The excepted cases to which the authority of adjustment and guarantee vested in the [State] Government by this provision shall not extend are as follows :— 1st—lands held under treaty : 2nd—lands granted or held as saranjam, or on a similar political tenure :

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