OF THE NTLAGIRI DISTRICT. 



No. 2/'. — Bides for the sale of Waste Lands o)i the Neilgherry Hills, passed 

 by the Hon'Jjle the Governor in Council on the 6th March 1863, and 

 numhered 478.4. 



I. Waste lands in wliich no rights of private proprietorship or 

 * T? YVTTT exclusive occupancy exist, and which may not 



be reserved as hereinafter* provided, may, 

 until further notice, be sold under the following rules : — 



II. Applications for land under these rules shall be addressed to 

 the Collector of the Coimbatore District, and shall comprise the 

 following particulars : — 



(a.) The estimated area of the land applied for. 

 (b.) The situation of the land and its boundaries, as accurately as 

 can be stated. 



III. No lot shall exceed 500 acres, unless otherwise specially ordered 

 by Government. Within towns and villages the maximum extent of 

 a lot shall be ten acres. But any person may apply for several 

 contiguous lots, each not exceeding the above limits. 



IV. Every lot shall be compact, and as nearly as possible a paral- 

 lelogram. When the land touches any road, or river, the length of 

 the road or water frontage shall not exceed one-half of the depth of 

 the lot, and in all other cases the blocks will be so laid out that, as 

 far as practicable, their length shall not exceed half their depth. 



V. No lot shall be sold until it has been surveyed, and durable 

 boundary marks have been erected. 



VI. If, on receipt of an application under Rule II, the Collector has 

 reason to believe that the land applied for is saleable under these rules, 

 he shall call upon the applicant to deposit with him the estimated 

 cost of surveying the land and of marking it out with dui-able boundary 

 marks, unless the land is already surveyed and demarcated. The 

 Collector will refund to th e depositor any portion of his deposit which 

 may not be actually expended in the survey and demarcation, and the 

 depositor shall pay any deficiency. 



VII. If the applicant fails to deposit the sum required under Rule 

 VI within six weeks from the date of demand, his application shall be 

 null and void. 



VIII. On receipt of the deposit required under Rule VI, the 

 Collector shall, as soon as possible, cause the land applied for to be 

 surveyed and marked out, and shall exclude from the lot all excess which 

 may be found on survey beyond the limits prescribed in Rule III, and 

 shall advertise the lot for sale on a given day, to be fixed so as to admit 

 of the notice required in Rule IX being given. 



IX. The advertisement shall be in English and Tamil, and shall 

 specify the locality, extent, and boundaries of the lot, the aggregate 



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