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refuses to pay any enhanced rate at which the lands 

 or villages may be assessed by the Settlement Officer. 

 Mukarraries are simple leases in perpetuity, at a fix- 

 ed annual rental. No class of tenant can lease his 

 holding in this way. Indeed mukarraries> although 

 common prior to the passing into law of the Rent 

 Act now in force, were irregular and illegal, having 

 only the sanction of the crass ignorance, as to the law 

 of the landowner. The practice seems to have been 

 borrowed from the districts of Saran and Champaran, 

 in Behar, which border on the Gorakhpur District to 

 the east and south. 



I have now glanced at the principal features of 

 tenures in the North-West Provinces, and would close 

 this chapter by again referring the Assistant to the 

 excellent manual previously mentioned for a more 

 extended knowledge of this important question. 



