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(l) The cost incurred in tbe oonstruction or improvemen Recovery of of any* public embankment may be reoovered* in whole or in cost. part, as the State Government may deem fit, from the persons whoarobenefitedor arelikely tb bebenefitedthereby. (2) If two or more persons are benefited or are likely to be benefited by such construction or improvement, the Collector shall apportion the cost thereof among them in the prescribed manner and 80 far og practicable in tho same proportion as the area, benefited and owned by each Of such persons respeotivoly bears to the total area so benefited. (3) A-IIcost under this section shall be payable in equal instalments on such days as the Revenue Commissioner or the Commissioner, Northern Division, as the oase may be, shall direct : Provided that no instalment shall exooed eight annag for every acre of land in respectof which the some is payable and that not more than four instalments shall be payable in any one year : Provided further that when a new embankment is constructed and the cost incurred in the construction has already been realised therefor, no cost on account of improve- ment of such embankment, effected within ten years after the completion of the construction, shall be realised from the persons benefited or are likely to be benefited thereby. (4) Instalment or instalments remaining unpaid in any year shall borecoveredat the expiry of the yeart an arrear of land revenue. * Inse&d by section 2 of Orissa Act XXX.n Of 1951. -t Subntitut,ed by orisea Act xx.XII of Searchable PDF created by OCR.space (Free Version) 31 Sø#lement