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(1) On completing the necessary inquiries under section 45, the Settlement Officer shall, having regard to soil and position of land and profits of agriculture, prepare a table of assessment rates for different classes of land in the prescribed form and shall publish it in the prescribed manner for the prescribed period. (2) Any person objecting to an entry in the table of assessment rates may present a petition in writing to the Settlement Officer within the prescribed period and the Settlement Officer shall consider such objections after giving a hearing to the objector. (3) The Settlement Officer shall submit the table of assessment rate to the Chief Commissioner together with a summary of objections, if any, his decisions on such objections and a statement of the grounds in support of his proposals. (4) The Chief Commissioner may approve the table of assessment rate submitted to him under sub-section (3) with such modifications, if any, as he may consider necessary. (5) The assessment rates approved under sub-section (4) shall be finally published in the Official Gazette.