The Deo Estate Act section 2: Application of Act VI of 1876 to the Deo Estate

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

2. Application of Act VI of 1876 to the Deo Estate .— The provisions of the Chutia Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act,1876 (VI of 1876), as amended by Act V of 1884, may be applied to the case of the said Raja Bhikam Narayan Singh Bahadur, subject to the following modifications, namely : — (1) The expressions "Commissioner", "Deputy Commissioner" and "holder", where used in the said Act, shall be construed as referring to the Commissioner of the Patna division, the Collector of the Gaya district and the said Ra'ja', respectively. (2) Notwithstanding anything in section 2 of the said Act, the Commissioner may, without any further application from the said Ra'ja' and without any further notification of the consent of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, publish an order under that section appointing a manager and vesting in him the management of the whole of the immoveable property of or to which the said Ra'ja' is then possessed or entitled in his own right, or which he is entitled to redeem, or which may be acquired by or devolve on him or his heir during the continuance of the management. (3) Section 4 of the said Act shall be read as if after the words "and their families" the words "and persons entitled to receive maintenance from the property" were added. (4) Notwithstanding anything in section 8 - (6) The second clause of section 12 of the said Act shall be read as if for the words " at any time before a scheme has been approved by him under section 11" the words " at any time before the occurrence of either of the events mentioned in the first and third clauses of this section" were substituted. (7) The power conferred on the manager by the second clause of section 16 of the said Act, to apply for the removal of a mortgagee or conditional vendee in possession, shall not be exercised. (8) The exercise of the power of sale conferred by section 18 of the said Act shall be subject to the following conditions, namely: — (a) that one month's notice shall be given to the Maharaja of Darbhanga of the manager's intention to sell any property of which the said Maharaja is mortgagee; (b) that until the debt due to the said Maharaja has been reduced to the sum of six hundred and fifty thousand rupees no portion of the proceeds of the sale of any of that property shall, without the previous consent of the Maharaja, be paid to any other creditor; and (c) that, except with the previous consent of the said Maharaja, so much of that property shall be left unsold as will yield a yearly income sufficient, after compliance with the rest of the scheme prepared and approved under section 11 of the said Act, to meet the yearly interest for the time being payable to the Maharaja . (9) Section 23 of the said Act shall be read as if for the words " the Courts in Chutia Nagpur" the words "any Court " were substituted, and as if the following words were added to the section to the section, namely: — "and a suit relating to a claim of maintenance from the property shall not be entertained by any such Court without the previous consent of the Commissioner." |Name of creditor.|Principal.|Principal.|Principal.|Annual rate of interest per centum.|Balance due on the 31st December,1885.|Balance due on the 31st December,1885.|Balance due on the 31st December,1885.| |1.|2.|||3.|4.||| |Maharaja LachhmesharSingh|Rs|A.|P||Rs.|A.|p| |Bahadur of Darbhanga.|6.50,000|0|0|6|8,18,141|4|0| |Babu Kameshwar Prasad.|2,89,751|12|2|6|2,58,340|2|7| |Ditto. . .|21,0000|0|0|12|21,000|0|0| |Ditto. . .|9,000|0|0|12|9,000|0|0| |Sayyid Lutf Ali Khan Bahadur|12,045|4|0|6|13,460|8|8| |Nurjahan Begum . .|9,405|0|0|6|10,577|10|1| |Gosain Dalmirpuri . .|5,000|0|0|6|6,535|0|0| |Gosain Dalmirpuri and Bhakhi Singh . . .|5,400|0|0|6|4,850|0|0| |Babu Ramgopal Singh and Babu Ram Kirpal Singh .|4,000|0|0|12|4,000|0|0| |Ditto. . .|3,500|0|0|12|3,500|0|0| |Ditto. . .|14,484|8|9|6|15,377|12|2| |Sayyid-un-nissa Bibi. .|29,660|0|0|18|53,725|1|0| |Babu Baijnath Singh. .|13,503|13|9|12|17,996|1|10| |Ditto. . . .|777|8|5|Nil|777|8|5| |Shaikh Imaman and Ramdhan Barai . . . .|10,000|0|0|9|10,000| 0|0| |Bihari Lal Barik . . .|3,300|0|0|72|6,006|0|0| |Lachhman D'as and Mathura D'as . . . .|4,998|2|6|6|4,215|14|7| |Ramkishan D'as . . .|1,195|10|0|12|1,267|5|0| |Narayan Sahu, Sheo Sahu, Bhichuk Sahu and Sheocharan Sahu . . .|3,500|0|0|12|3,052|12|0| |Madho Singh . . .|7,702|0|6|6|7,070|6|11| |Raghubar Singh . . .|3,000|0|0|12|2,824|2|4| |Raghubar Singh . . .|3,000|0|0|12|2,824|2|4|

Source: India Code