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No right of any description shall be acquired in or over a reserved forest, except under a grant or contract in writing 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 16 was published or by succession from such persons: Provided that no patta shall without previous sanction of the 3Board of Revenue be granted on behalf of Government for any land included within a reserved forest, and every patta granted without such sanction shall be null and void. Rights continued under section 12 not to be alienated without sanction