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in India, e in which no right of proprietorship or ex- 

 clusive occupancy was known then to exist, or to 

 have existed in former times and to be capable of 

 revival/ at 10s an acre for cleared, and 55 for un- / 

 cleared land : 



' As regards the sale of waste lands/ observed 

 Earl Canning* in introducing* this Resolution in 

 Council, " there can be no question of the substantial 

 benefits, both to India and to England, which must 

 follow the establishment of settlers who will introduce 

 profitable and judicious cultivation into Districts 

 hitherto unreclaimed. His Excellency in Council 

 looks for the best results to the people of India* 

 wherever in such Districts European settlers may 

 find a climate in which they can live and occupy 

 themselves without detriment to their health, and 

 whence they may direct such improvements as 

 European capital, skill, and enterprise can effect in 

 the agriculture, communications, and commerce of 

 the surrounding country. He confidently expects 

 that harmony of interest between permanent Euro- 

 pean settlers and the half-civilized tribes, by whom 

 most of these waste Districts, or the country adjoin- 

 ing them, are thinly peopled, will conduce to the 

 material and moral improvement of large classes of 

 the Queen's Indian subjects, which for any such pur- 

 poses have long been felt by the Government to be 

 almost out of the reach of its ordinary agencies. 



' But it is the firm conviction of the Governor- 

 General in Council that, in order to obtain per ma- 



