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Land Revenue, Assistant Collectors, Settlement 
Officers and Survey Officers, as well as Malay 
headmen. 
Provision is made for an appeal to the 
Court from a decision of the Collector. 
Surveying and marking the boundaries of 
land before registering title is regulated and 
for subdivision of land and for surrender of 
alienated land to the Ruler of the State there 
is provision. 
Land may be held under grant in perpetuity 
or lease for a number of years or entry in the 
mukim register, this last form of title being 
that given to small proprietors. 
Boundary marks have to be maintained by 
the proprietor. 
Rent is the first charge on all land and if 
it is not annually paid the land may be sold 
for recovery of the rent, if sale of personal 
possessions or crop on the land is not sufficient 
to realize the rent. 
The Ruler of the State reserves the right 
of making drains, irrigation works, survey 
stations, laying water pipes, erecting electrical 
wires and of keeping these in order without 
paying compensation for the use of the land 
but compensation is allowed where improve- 
ments, building or cultivated ground are 
damaged. 
The cultivation conditions under which land 
is alienated and held vary to some extent with 
varying areas, but the condition attaching to 
