ABSTRACT
The detailed provisions of the rules were as follows—the Rules were made applicable to the whole of the Sundarbans, excluding reserved but including protected forests, provided that the opinion of the Conservator of Forests should be 1879. Taken on all proposed leases, and that leases for the reclamation of protected forest should only be given, where the land was adjacent to other reclaimed blocks. The leases were for a term of 99 years one quarter of each grant was exempt from assessment for ever the remainder was held revenue-free for 20 years at a revenue of 2 pice per standard bigha from the 21st year. A period of stagnation ensued; for all practical purposes there were no rules in force in the Sundarbans the stagnation was intensified in 1874 by a declaration of policy by Sir Richard Temple, the Lieutenant-Governor, after a tour through the Sundarbans.
