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promulgated for Arracan for the first fifty years. 

 From that up to the ninety-ninth year they ranged 

 d an acre higher. 



In Assam and Cachar one fourth of the grant, as 

 usual, was to be rent-free for ever ; and the remainder 

 rent-free for fifteen years. On the expiration of 

 this period, it was to be assessed at 4cZ an acre per 

 annum for the first ten years ; and for the next 

 seventy-four years at S^d an acre. After ninety- 

 nine years, the grant was to be subject to the same 

 rule as that applicable to grants in the Soonder- 

 buns. 



About the Hill Sanatarium at Darjeeling, grants 

 were permitted to be sold for Us. 10 an acre. 



In the Himalayan Range of the Upper Provinces, 

 where the climate is most healthful and invigorating 

 to the European constitution, one fourth of the grant 

 was to be rent-free for ever. The term of the first 

 lease was to be for twenty years. For the first four 

 years, the grant was to be held rent-free ; in the 

 fifth year about l^d an acre per annum was to be 

 charged on three fourths of the grant ; 2^d in the 

 sixth, k\d in the seventh, and so on \\d an acre 

 being added in each year, till, in the last year, the 

 maximum rate of 2s an acre was reached.* 



Nothing short of giving the land away, certainly, 



* By orders of the Lieut. -Governor, N. "W. Provinces, dated 

 29th September, 1860, the lease was extended to 50 years (the 

 maximum rate, 2s per acre, not being reached till the 25th 

 year,) and the resumption clause abrogated in regard to all 

 cultivated land. 



