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44 With respect to lands already appropriated by 
the native inhabitants, no distinction need be 
drawn between these and unappropriated lands, 
except that the first quit-rents may, in consider¬ 
ation of their improved state, and the surrender, 
on the part of the British Government, of most of 
the rights exercised by the native Government, 
be rated considerably higher than on new lands. 
44 To simplify the written leases, and to prevent 
them from being encumbered and overlaid by a 
multiplicity of conditions, I would propose that 
they simply comprise a specification of the lands, 
and that for the terms, reference should be made 
to the proclamation under which the grants are 
made, of which a copy may, perhaps, be conveni¬ 
ently annexed to each grant. I shall here briefly 
enumerate the conditions which it appears to me 
ought to be comprehended in such a proclamation. 
44 Grants of unappropriated land on leasehold 
tenures will be given on the following condi¬ 
tions :— 
44 Applicants will receive, in the first instance, 
certificates, or location-tickets, specifying the ex¬ 
tent of land to be granted. 
44 A perpetual annual quit-rent of —-grains 
of pure silver on each acre of land, shall be paid by 
the lessee to the Honourable East India Compa¬ 
ny, their successors, &c. in half-yearly instalments, 
from the date of the location-tickets. 
44 When the land is surveyed, which shall be 
