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All costs incurred by the 1[State Government] on account of a survey directed under clause (a) of section 17 shall be recoverable from the persons who have any interest in the estate, portion of estate, or boundary of which the survey has been ordered as an arrear of land revenue; the cost of a survey directed under clause (b) (i) and (ii) of section 17 shall be borne by the 1[State Government] unless otherwise provided by any law for the being in force. 20 (1) On the application of the proprietor of an estate in which any survey has been made, the 1[State Government] or any officer, or authority to whom this power may be delegated by it, may direct the survey officer to apportion among the holders of the lands or persons interested in the boundaries which have been surveyed the whole or a specified portion of the cost of such survey; provided that no tenant under a proprietor shall be called upon to pay a larger sum on account of such survey than he would be liable to pay if he held his land directly under the Government. (2) The apportionment under sub-section (1) shall be made in the prescribed manner. (3) The amount apportioned under this section when it is due by the tenants of a proprietor shall be recoverable as if it were an arrear of rent due by a tenant to his landholder Cost of survey recoverable from prop- rietor. State Government may direct apportion- ment of costs among lands surveyed. Apportion ment how made. Cost so apportioned recoverable by proprietor from tenants.