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No nght acquzred over Reserved Forests except as herem provzded.- No nght of any description shall be acquired in or over a Reserved Forest except under a grant or contract 111 wnting made by or on behalf of the Government or by or on behalf of some person in whom such right or the power to create such right was vested when the notification under section 19 was publi~hed or by successiOn from such person: Provided that no patta shall, without the prevwus sanction of the Government, be granted for any land mciuded withm a Reserved Forest and every patta granted without such sanction shall be null and void.