[Extracts from the Agriculturists' Loans Act, 12 of 1884.'] 



4. (1) The Local Government may, from time to time, subject to 

 the control of the Governor General in Council, make rules as to 

 loans to be made to owners and occupiers of arable land, for the relief 

 of distress, the purchase of seed or cattle, or any other purpose not 

 specified in the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883, but connected 

 with agricultural objects. 



(2) All such rules shall be published in the local official Gazette. 



5. Every loan made in accordance with such rules, all interests 

 (if any) chargeable thereon, and costs (if any) incurred in making 

 or recovering the same, shall, when they become due, be recoverable 

 from the person to whom the loan was made, or from any person who 

 has become surety for the repayment thereof, as if they were arrears 

 of land-revenue or costs incurred in recovering the same, due by the 

 person to whom the loan was made, or by his surety. 



6. When a loan is made under this Act to the members of a 

 village community, or to any other persons on such terms that all 

 of them are jointly and severally bound to the Government for the 

 payment of the whole amount payable in respect thereof, and a state- 

 ment showing the portion of that amount which as among themselves 

 each is bound to contribute, is entered upon, the order granting the 

 loan and is signed, marked or sealed by each of them or his agent 

 duly authorised in this behalf and by the officer making the order, 

 that statement shall be conclusive evidence of the portion of that 

 amount which as among themselves each of those persons is bound 

 to contribute. 





