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liable to the Government for any deficiency of price arising 
from the second sale. 
Possession is given on the completion of the sale, and 
a title to the land is registered free of cost as soon as the 
necessary formalities have been complied with. 
AGRICULTURAL LAND. 
The alienation of the State lands for agricultural pur- 
poses may be by auction or otherwise as the Resident may 
from time to time generally or in particular cases direct 
(Land Enactment, Section 28). Auction in the case of 
country lands exceeding 100 acres is very rarely resorted 
to: the usual procedure is by way of application for the 
land selected to the local Land Office when, if available, the 
land is alienated on payment of the prescribed fees. 
Application from persons other than Asiatics must 
always be in writing: printed forms for making appli- 
cations can be obtained from any Land Office. (Land 
Rules, Section 4.) 
The form of tenure may be by grant or by entry in the 
mukiin register: the latter is generally regarded as the 
more suitable for native land-holders, and is not applicable 
to areas which exceed 100 acres; the advantages given by 
the former are in almost all cases preferred by European 
applicants. 
The application should set out the area required, the 
title under which the land is to be held, the purpose for 
which the land is to be used, the name and address of the 
person who can point out the land, and the postal address 
to which any communications concerning the land can be 
sent. 
Care should be taken that the situation of the land ap- 
plied for is defined as clearly as possible, and attention 
should be given to the instructions which are printed on 
the hack of the application form. Whenever possible a 
tracing of the locality, showing adjoining alienated lots, 
which can he obtained on payment of a small fee from the 
local Survey Office, should he attached to the application, 
the boundaries of the lan # d applied for being entered ap- 
proximately on it. 
The application form duly filled in should he forwarded 
to the Collector of Land Revenue of the district within 
which the land is situated; if the information given in the 
application is not such as will enable the Collector to iden- 
