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probablity of the money, and the trouble and 

 danger will not enter into his calculations at all. 

 Nay, possibly he will like the undertaking all the 

 better for these accompaniments. Certainly he will 

 do so, if the danger to be apprehended is from some- 

 thing that he may kill, tigers, elephants, buffaloes, 

 rhinosceroses, game birds, and the like. 



The waste-land question in India, therefore, I am jus- 

 tified in saying, was one of profit and not one of 

 tenure. 



It is quite true that the great liberality of the rules 

 for the grant of wastelands above cited, was qualified 

 by conditions, some of which were obstructive. 

 Grantees, for instance, were bound to clear and ren- 

 der fit for cultivation one eighth of the grant in five 

 years, one fourth in ten years, one half in twenty 

 years, and three fourths in thirty years. Government, 

 again, reserved to itself the right of making such roads 

 and bridges as it might think proper, on lands so 

 granted, and also the right to all such timber, stone, 

 and other materials as might be necessary for keeping 

 the said roads and bridges in repair. Objection was 

 taken to these conditions, and when we come to look 

 at the penalty involved in non-compliance with the 

 first mentioned, I am not at all Surprized. 



In Assam, Dacca, Cachar, Silchar, and the Soon- 

 derbuns, in regard to clearances, it was provided : 



"That on failure of all or any of these four 

 conditions the fact of which failure shall after local 



