Section 26. In any district in which a settlement of the land-revenue is in progress, the Chief Commissioner, wi

26. In any district in which a settlement of the land-revenue is in progress, the Chief Commissioner, with the sanction of the Governor General in Council, may invest any officer making or controlling such settlement with all or any of the powers of Civil Courts of the first, second, third or fourth grades, for the purpose of trying suits and appeals relating to land In other cases. Appointment of Extra Judicial Commissioner. Reference to High Court, North-Western Provinces. Procedure of High Court thereupon. Section 20 to apply to reference to High Court. Power to invest settlement officers with powers of Civil Courts in certain cases. Oudh Civil Courts. [ACT XXXII Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts in district under settlement. and assessed to revenue, or the rent, revenue or produce of such land, arising in such district. Any district in which such officers have been so invested shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be under settlement until such time as the Governor General in Council shall otherwise direct; and the jurisdiction of the Ordinary Civil Courts of those grades shall be excluded in respect of such suits and appeals during that period: Power to transfer cases from settlement officers, to Civil Courts. Provided that the Chief Commissioner may direct that any cases pending before the settlement officers invested with the powers mentioned in the former part of this section shall be transferred to the ordinary Civil Courts of the district if the state of business in his opinion requires it. Trial of suit relating to land and to other property.