ABSTRACT
The principle was applied to all lands reclaimed from the Sundarbans, and lands which lay within the limits of the patitabadi and jangalburi taluks of 24-Parganas and Jessore. Mr. Scott asked for the extension of Regulation VIII of 1811 to the country under his charge, as the alienations were necessarily prima facie invalid; but the Board directed him to follow the only procedure then open, namely, to institute resumption suits in the civil court. The talukdars having brought the lands into cultivation were pronounced justly entitled to settlement in all cases, provided they agreed to an adequate jama, it not being the intention of Government generally to assert any right of property in the lands. Applications had been received all along in large numbers for grants of the Sundarban forest, but only those for lands in the 24-Parganas district were taken into consideration.
