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sale to execute a deed in the form marked Y annexed to the said rules, 

 then the purchaser shall pay to the Collector interest at the rate of 

 Rupees 12 per cent, per annum on the remainder of his purchase-money 

 from the day of sale until the purchase shall be completed in the one 

 case, or until a deed in the form Y be executed in the other cases 

 without prejudice, nevertheless, to the right of resale reserved by the 

 seventh condition. 



(7.) — " That if the purchaser shall neglect or refuse to comply with 

 the above conditions, or any of them, his deposit money shall be 

 forfeited and retained by Government, and the Government shall be at 

 liberty to resell the premises either by public auction or private 

 contract without the necessity of previously tendering a conveyance 

 to the purchaser ; and the deficiency, if any, arising from such resale, 

 together with all expenses attending it, shall be made good by the 

 purchaser at the present sale, who shall so neglect or refuse, as and for 

 hquidated damages." 



XVII. If, before the time of sale, a claim of private proprietorship, 

 or of exclusive occupancy, or of any other right incompatible with the 

 sale of the laud under these rules, shall be preferred to the land or any 

 part of it, the Collector shall postpone the sale of the land until 

 such claim shall be disposed of in due course of law. 



XVIII. Reserves of grazing and forest land, of land for the growth 

 of firewood, for building sites, parks, recreation grounds, and the like, 

 and of land required for other special purposes, are not to be sold 

 under these rules without the express sanction of the Government. 

 A registt* of such reserves will be maintained in the Collector's office, 

 and will be open to inspection by intending applicants at such times 

 and under such rules as the Collector may prescribe by notification in 

 the District Gazette. 



XIX. The annual assessment on lands sold under these rules may 

 at any time be redeemed by the owner by payment of a sum equal to 

 twenty-five times the said annual assessment-, and the lands so redeemed 

 shall thereafter be for ever free from all demand on the part of the 

 State on account of land-revenue. On payment of the redemption 

 money the owner of the land shall be furnished with a deed in the 

 form Z annexed to these rules, 



XX. Arrears of annual assessment shall be recoverable in the same 

 manner as arrears of ryotwary land-revenue are or may be recoverable 

 by law for the time being in force in the Madras Presidency. 



XXI. Lands sold or redeemed under these rules shall, nevertheless, 

 continue subject to all general taxes and local rates payable by law or 

 custom. 



XXII. The existing and customary rights of Government, of other 

 proprietors and of the public, in existing roads and paths, and in streams 

 running through or bounding lands sold under these rules, are reserved, 

 and in no way affected by the sale of such lands under these rules. 



XXIII. Nothing contained in these rules shall be held to debar the 

 Government from granting waste laud on putt a, cowle, or otherwise 

 at their discretion as heretofore. 



