Section 1. [ Repealed .]

1. [ Repealed .]. 2. Rate of interest to be decreed by Courts. 3. Rate of interest upon a judgment or decree. 4. Contracts for usufruct of property in lieu of interest . 1. Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897). This Act has been declared to be in force in the whole of India, except former Part B States and the Scheduled Districts, by the Laws Local Extent Act, 1874 (15 of 1874), s. 3. It has bean declared, by notification under s. 3(a) of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 1874), to be in force in the following Scheduled Districts, namely:— West Jalpaiguri, the Western Dvars, the Western Hills of Darjiling, the Darjiling Tarai and the Damson Sub-division of |the Damson Sub-division of||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |the Darjiling District|||.|.|_See_Gazette of India,|1881, Pt. I, p. 74.| |The District of Hazaribagh||||.|Ditto|1881, Pt. I, p. 507.| |TheDistrictofLohardaga(now||||||| |the Ranchi District,_see_Calcutta|||||Ditto|| |Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, p. 44). .|||||Ditto|1881, Pt. I, p. 508.| |The District of Manbhum|||.||Ditto|1881, Pt. I, p.| |509.||||||| |Pargana Dhalbhum in the District||||||| |of Singbhum|•|•|•||Ditto|1881, Pt. I, p. 510.| |The Scheduled portion of the||||||| |Mirzapur District|||•||Ditto|1879, Pt. I, p. 383.| |Jaunsar Bawar<br>.<br>The District of Lahaul .<br>The Scheduled Districts of the C. P.|||||Ditto<br>Ditto<br>Ditto|1879, Pt. I, p. 382.<br>1886, Pt. I, p. 301.<br>1879, Pt. I, p. 771.| |The Scheduled District in Gan-||||||| |jam and Vizagapatam .|||.||Ditto|1898, Pt. I, p. 870.| |The Districts of Kamrup,||||||| |Naugong, Darrang, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur,|||||Ditto|1878, Pt. I p. 533.| |Goalpara<br>(excluding||||||| |the Eastern Dvars) and Cachar||||||| |(excluding the North Cachar|Hills)||||||