Section 3. All acts of executive authority, proceedings decrees and sentences which have been done, taken or pa

3. All acts of executive authority, proceedings decrees and sentences which have been done, taken or passed subsequently to the first day of February 1866 and which would have been valid if the Scheduled villages had been ceded according to the intention of the said agreements and notification, shall be as valid and operative in British India as if such cession had actually been effected; and no suit or other proceeding shall be maintained or continued against any person whatever on the ground that the Scheduled villages did not cease to be British territory on the first day of February 1866.