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light had already begun to dawn in Bengal. For, 

 in the rules promulgated for Arracan, provision 

 was made for due notice being served on the 

 grantee, requiring him to show cause, why the whole 

 of his land should not be resumed, and directing 

 judicial proceedings, open to appeal in the usual 

 manner, in each case. A proposal likewise came 

 up from Bengal to the Government of India in 

 1860, to modify this clause of the waste land 

 regulations ; and to provide that in case of failure 

 to comply with all, or any, of the clearance condi- 

 tions, '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 con- 

 ditions to cultivate the whole of the culturable land 

 of the grant, and certain portions thereof within 

 certain intermediate terms, indispensible, '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 enterprize. The 

 following, indeed, reads like an extract from the 



* Bengal letter No. 1998, dated 8th>ugnst 1860 to Secretary 

 Government of India. 



