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sale out-right of all waste lands;* another drafted 

 a set of rules for carrying the measure into effect; 

 and His Excellency the Viceroy, after considering 

 in Council the opinons of all his Lieutenants and 

 their subordinates on the general question, published, 

 on the 17th October 1861, a Resolution, in which he 

 sanctioned the sale of all unassessed waste lands 

 in India ' in which no right of proprietorship or 

 exclusive 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 5s. for un- 

 cleared land : 



f As regards the sale of wastelands/ 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 enterprize can effect in 

 the agriculture, communications, and commerce of 

 the surrounding country. He confidently expects 

 that harmony of interest between permanent Euro- 



* See Parliamentary papers Waste Lauds (India). 



