All lands etc. are property of Government.

All public roads, lanes, paths, bridges, ditches, dikes, rivers, streams, tanks, ponds, canals, lakes and flowing water and all lands, wherever situated, together with all rights appertaining thereto are the property of the Government excepting:-

(a) those belonging to persons or class legally capable of holding property and to the extent so far as their such rights are established;

(b) those in respect of which any other order under any law may have been given.

It shall be lawful for the Collector or other officer appointed by the Government for this purpose subject to rules sanctioned by the Government and contained in notification and the order of the Board of Revenue, to dispose of them in his discretion; but the right of way or other rights legally vesting in any person or the public shall subsist.