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manner^ in each case. A proposal likewise came 

 up from Bengal to the Government of India in 

 I860; to modify this clause of the waste land regu- 

 lations : and to provide that in case of failure to 

 comply with all, or any, of the clearance conditions, 

 ' such portion of the grant only as shall remain 

 uncleared; or not rendered fit for cultivation at the 

 time of the enquiry shall be resumed/ the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, while he considered the conditions to 

 cultivate the whole of the culturable land of the 

 grant, and certain portions thereof within certain 

 intermediate terms; indispensable, c seeing no reason 

 for making the whole grant forfeited on breach of 

 those conditions.'* 



The rights reserved by Government in the grant; 

 again were open to some objection, while the rights, 

 real or imaginary, preserved to the natives, of 

 grazing* cattle and cutting timber, if they did not 

 annihilate all security of property; were certainly 

 prohibitory of all industry and enterprise. The 

 following, indeed, reads like an extract from the 

 chronicles of the King of Oude; or the Ruler of 

 some other native State; yet it is taken from a Blue 

 Book on waste lands situated in territories under 

 British rule. 



f After spending nearly 40;000 in the three 

 estates of Hope Town and Arcadia alone; in re- 

 claiming the waste lands ; bringing* a population into 



* Bengal letter, No. 1998, dated 8th August I860, to Secre- 

 tary Government of India. 



