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Saving of Powers of the Government for the Recovery of 



Revenue. 



23. Nothing in this Act shall affect any powers conferred 

 on the Government, by any law for the time being in force, 

 for the recovery of land revenue or of any sum recoverable 

 as an arrear of land revenue. 



The Schedule. 



Rules of Succession to an Economic Holding. 



(See section 18.) 



1. The succession is traced from the person last entitled 

 to the holding. 



2. The succession is in the first place to the issue lineally of 

 the person last entitled to the holding, the male issue being 

 preferred to the female. 



o. Where there are two or more heirs in equal degree, 

 the eldest only succeeds. 



4. The lineal descendants of any person deceased re- 

 present their ancestor, that is to say, they occupy the same 

 position as he would have occupied if he had been alive. 



5. On failure of lineal descendants, the nearest lineal 

 ancestor succeeds. 



6. A paternal ancestor and his descendants are preferred to 

 a maternal ancestor ; a male paternal or maternal ancestor 

 with his descendants is preferred to a female paternal or 

 maternal ancestor respectively. 



7. Illegitimate relationship is not recognised. 



8. A person related by the half blood is capable of being 

 the heir and stands in the order of succession next after any 

 relation in the same degree of the whole blood and his issue 

 where the common ancestor is a male, and next after the 

 common ancestor where the common ancestor is a female, 



9. Adoption is recognised whenever it would be recognised 

 under the law of succession to which the parties are subject 

 in cases not governed by this Act. 



