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Th e following provisions shall apply in the Rights of - case of every tenant ejected from a holding— ejected te nants in (a) when the tenant has, before the date of his crops*3* an d ejectment, sown or planted crops in any land prepa- iand comprised in the holding, he shall be red for so- entitled, at the option of the landlord, w m K- either to retain possession of that land and to use it for the purpose of tending and gathering in the crops, or to receive from the landlord the value of the crops as estimated by the Court executing the > decree for ejectment ; (b) when the tenant has before the date of his ejectment, prepared for sowing any land comprised in his holding but has not sown or planted crops in that land, he shall be entitled to receive from the land lord the value of the labour and capital expended by him in so preparing the land, as estimated by the Court executing the decree for ejectment, together with reason able interest on that value ; (<.) but the tenant shall not be entitled to retain possession of any land or to receive any sum in respect thereof under this section where, after the commencement o f procee dings by the landloid for his ejectment, he has cultivated or prepared the land, con trary to local usage ; (J) if the landlord elects under this section to allow a tenant to retain possession of the * land, the tena nt shall pay to the landlord, for the use and occupation of the land during the period for which he is allowed A to retain possession of the same, such rent as the Court executing the decree for ejectment may deem reasonable ; («) in the case of a privileged raiyat or an occup- pancy raiyat compensation shall also be payable for trees standing on the land which he is entitled to cut and appro priate : 52 Provided that no compensation under clause («) shall be payable when the raiyat is being ejected on the ground that he has used the land in a manner which renders it unfit for the purposes of the tenancy. CH APTER XI Summary procedure for the Recovery of R ents UNDER THE BENGAL PUBLIC DEMANDS RECOVERY Act, 1913 Recovery of