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5. The following are the prescribed conditions of clear- 

 ance : 



At the close of the fifth year from the date of grant, a 

 twentieth part of the assessable area ; at the close of the tenth 

 year, one-fifth of the assessable area ; at the close of the fifteenth 

 year, half of the assessable area; and at the close of the last 

 year, three-fourths of the assessable area is to be cleared and 

 well stocked with tea-plants. 



6. In the twenty-first year, on the fulfilment of the above 

 conditions, the proprietary right in the grant and the right of 

 engagement with Government shall vest in the grantee, his 

 heirs, executors, or assigns, under the conditions generally 

 applicable to the owners of estates in Kumaon ; and the rate of 

 assessment on the lands in the grant, in whatever manner culti- 

 vated, shall never exceed the average rate on grain crop lands in 

 the same locality. 



7. On failure of payment of the prescribed assessment in any 

 year, or of any of the above conditions (the fact of which failure 

 shall, after local inquiry conducted by the Senior Assistant 

 Commissioner, be finally determined by the Sudder Board of 

 Revenue) the entire grant shall be liable to resumption, at the 

 discretion of the Government, with exception to the portion of 

 the assessable area which may be bona fide under tea cultiva- 

 tion, and to a further portion of land which shall be allowed in 

 perpetuity, free of assessment, to the extent of one-fourth of such 

 cultivated area. The portions so exempted will remain in the 

 possession of the grantee, subject to the usual rates or rules of 

 assessment in the district. 



8. Grantees shall be bound to erect boundary pillars at con- 

 venient points round the circuit of a grant within six months 

 from its date, failing which such pillars will be put up by the 

 Government officers, and the cost thereof shall be recoverable 

 from the grantee in the same manner as the regulated rate of 

 assessment. 



9. No claim to the right and interest in a grant on any 

 transfer by the original grantee will be recognized as valid, 

 unless on registry of the name of the transferee in the office of 

 the Senior Assistant Commissioner. 



10. So long as Government establishments for the experi- 

 mental growth and manufacture of tea shall be maintained in 

 the provinces, supplies of seeds and plants will be given gratis 

 to grantees, on application to the Superintendent, Botanical 



