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all those barriers, said to have been hitherto set up 

 between British enterprize and the development 

 of India's wealth, rendered the solution of this ques- 

 tion which has so long occupied the attention of 

 English and Indian statesmen, a matter of time 

 alone. 



But the terms of the Resolution, were not accept- 

 ed iu their integrity in England. Her Majesty's 

 Government, while it cordially participated in 

 the sentiments contained in the second of the para- 

 graphs above quoted, considered the proposition 

 ( 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 ' 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 bounderies 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 llesolu- 



