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20. Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, it shall be lawful for an estate-holder, being entitled to a permanent, heritable and transferable right in an State, and in possession thereof and competent to contract, to apply in writing to the [State Government] 1 for permission to declare that such estate or a portion thereof shall in future beheld subject to the provisions of this part.