Section 6

6. Land held as wholly exempt from payment of Revenue, or on partial assessment, the possession of which is not continuable under the preceding Rules, is to be resumed on the demise of the incumbent. Provision 1 st .—In case the incumbent at the time of the introduction of the British Government may have died, the permission to hold for life is to be extended to the person in whose name the land may be continued, when the investigation is commenced, if there be no fraud apparent, nor other reason for withholding this indulgence. Provision 2 nd .—When land is evidently held by fraud recently committed, (as when an Inam which was resumed under the late Government has been re-occupied under the present Government without authority, of as when a pretended Inam is found to have originated. Since the introduction of this Government with the connivance of District or Village Officers), it shall be at once resumed, not being continuable under this or any of the preceding Rules.