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(1) All abandoned and surrendered holdings abandoned nndsurrun- in the possession of the bolder of a Village Ofice - dtrrd hold- and all waste lands reclaimed by him from aud after lngs nnd wnsrclands. the 1st day of January 1949 shall be, so far as may be practicable, settled with the previous holders or their heirs, ur with landless persons and small-ho lders of Iand in the prescribed manner. (2) All waste lands reclaimed priclr to the said date shall'be settled with tbe hoIder of a .Village ' . Office with rights of occupancy therein on a 'fair and equitable rent. (3) .Notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in sub-sections ( I ) and (2) in the territories of the former State of Pal-Lahara, waste lands reclaimed by the Sarbarakar prior to the first day of January 1942 shall .be settled j n the manner specified in sub-sect ion (2) and waste lands reclaimed on and after the said date in themanner specjfiedin sub- section (I). E m p ~ ~ ~ m c n l 8. The Village Officer shall, on abolilion of the of certain Vilkigc office, if there are no Bhogra lands to be settled Oficcr5 in him, be paid by way of solatiun~ a lump sum S ~ a t r wrvlcc payment grant or fifteen times the annual commission recei- O r s O ~ ~ i u ~ . ved by him during the year immediately p r i ~ r to the appointed date : Provided that no svch solatiurn shall be payable, if such officeih on his application has been appointed bcfore the expiry of a pe~,i:!d o f six n ~ o i ~ t h s from the 1 pointed date to any suitablc post undcr the State government in accordance with such rules as may t e prescribed : Providcd further that wherc a Gountia in the former State of Bamra holds -. any Gounti-raiyat i lands immediately beforc the appointed date- (a) no solatiurn shall be payable, it the market value of such lands is not less than fifteen times the annual commission ; and (b) in any other case the solatiurn s11all be equal to the iimount by.which fiftccn times sucIi commission exceeds the said marker value: ' I [ Provided aiso that wherz the aunual commission received by any Viltage Officer during the year immediately prior to the appointed date has been affected as a result of remission of rent or revenue payable in respect of that year or as a result of suspension of realisation of suctz lent 01- revenue, the solatiurn -under this section shall be calculated on the annual corni~lission received by the Village Officer during :he year next preceding the appoin- ted date the rent in respect of which year has not been so affected. ]