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i to divide all the unassessed and unclaimed lands 

 throughout India into two classes, those which are 

 ' encumbered with jungle/ and those which are 

 not, and to sell the lands of each class at a uniform 

 price per acre, without any regard to their situation 

 or to their presumed fertility ? as c untenable / and 

 directed that the plan followed in most of the 

 British colonies should be followed, and the lots for 

 sale put up to auction, and sold to the highest 

 bidders above 5s an acre. It also objected to the 

 provisions for placing purchasers in possession before 

 the lots had been regularly surveyed ; and to the 

 manner in which prior claims of occupancy or rights 

 of property, were disposed of; ruling that all lots 

 should be surveyed and their boundaries demarcated 

 before sale, and be sold subject to any ' rights of 

 property/ or other claims that might be established 

 in a Court of competent jurisdiction. The Resolu- 

 tion had further given power to all holders of grants 

 which had already been given for a term of years 

 at progressively increasing rents, to redeem the 

 future land revenue at the highest rate fixed during 

 the currency of the grant, provided it did not exceed 

 the rate fixed as the price in fee-simple of wastes ; 

 but the latter provision Her Majesty's Government 

 considered, fixed the price for such lands within too 

 narrow limits, and disallowed it. 



For the rest, the orders of the Governor-General (i 

 were allowed to stand. All waste and unassessed 71 

 lands at the absolute disposal of the Government of 



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