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I. Administration of the Rent Laws. All suits 

 between landlord and tenant of whatever nature, in 

 so far as they relate to land, must be filed before, 

 and disposed of by, the Collector, or Assistant Col- 

 lector. Appeal from either of which courts lies to the 

 Commissioner of the Division, and, ultimately, to the 

 Board of Revenue for the North- West Provinces, whose 

 finding is final. We are sorry to have to record that 

 such suits are of too frequent occurrence, and that 

 their name is legion. We have suits for arrears of 

 rent, enhancement, ejectment, distress, determination 

 of rent, and nature of tenure, assistance to eject, and 

 many others filed by the zemindar, or his locum tenens 

 pro tern.) against the tenant ; for excess of rent col- 

 lected, or for fixing the proper rental of his holding, 

 compensation, wrongful dispossession, abatement of 

 rent, etc., the mere enumeration of which our limited 

 space forbids. 



2, Jurisdiction of Revenue 'Courts. These courts 

 have a very extended jurisdiction, and in all suits 

 under the Rent Act, tried and decided by the Col- 

 lector of the District, or by the Assistant Collector, 

 their judgment is final, except in cases where the 

 value of the matter at issue exceeds Rs. 100, when 

 appeal lies to the District Judge, or where the 

 amount of the suit exceeds Rs. 5,000, in which case 

 the appeal lies to the High Court. In all other 



