Section 4. In all cases where a person may be desirous of appealing against any decision of the Inam Commission

14. In all cases where a person may be desirous of appealing against any decision of the Inam Commissioner or his Assistants, he shall apply by a petition, addressed to the Authority by whom, according to Rule 2, his appeal is cognizable, which petition shall be presented to such Authority within one hundred days from the date of the decree appealed against, a copy of which must accompany the petition of appeal, and no appeal which is not so made shall be admitted, without proof of the existence of a just and necessary cause for its not having been preferred in due time; and it is hereby provided, that no decree passed by the Inam Commissioner or any of his Assistants, shall be liable to be set aside for want of form in the proceedings, but only for matters affecting the justice of the decision. SCHEDULE B Rules for the adjudication of titles to estates claimed as Inam or exempt from payment of land revenue 4. All lands, uninterruptedly held as wholly or partially exempt from assessment, for a period of forty years before the introduction of the British Government, and then in the authorized possession of a son, or male heir of the body of a son of the original grantee, are to be continued for one succession further than that of the person who was incumbent at the introduction of the British Government, that is, until the death of his last surviving son. Provision 1 st .—The authorized possession contemplated by Rules 8 and 4 does not involve the necessity of proving any specific authority from, or recognition by, the Government or Paramount Power. The mere entry of the holding, as continued in the genuine accounts of the District Officers (even in those not audited and passed by the Government of the time being), will be sufficient to bring it under the heads of "uninterrupted" and "authorized" so far as regards the purposes of this Rule; provided only that there are no entries in the Collectorate accounts, which shew that the holding of such lands exempt as aforesaid must have been unauthorized by the Government or Paramount Power. Provision 2 nd .—If there be not evidence forthcoming to disprove a claimant's assertion that his holding has been undisputedly enjoyed for the number of years and descents requisite to fulfil the conditions of Rules 3 and 4 respectively, his prescriptive right shall be admitted. Provision 3 rd .—The introduction of the British Government is to be reckoned from the time the East India Company became the Government or Paramount Authority over each District as regards its Inams. In the Territories ceded by or conquered from the Peshwa, therefore, whether Khalsat Mahals or Serinjams, &c., held exclusive of Inams, &c., the introduction of the British Government will date from the close of that of the Peshwa. But in case of the lapse of an independent principality, or of a jagheer more ancient than the Peshwa's Government, and over the Inams of which he did not claim any authority, the introduction of the British Government should be reckoned only from the date at which the general management of the Districts may have come into the hands of the Company, and in case any question shall arise as to the precise date when the East India Company became the Government over any district, or when the general management of any District came into their hands, such question shall be referred to and determined by Government in the manner prescribed by Provision 1 st , Rule 1.