Section 4. Rights and liabilities of persons named in second schedule

4. Rights and liabilities of persons named in second schedule .—Every person whose lands the proclamation issued in Oudh in the month of March 1858 by order of the Governor General of India specially exempted from confiscation, and whose names are contained in the second schedule hereto annexed, shall be deemed to possess in the lands for which such person executed a kabuliyat between the first day of April 1858 and the first day of April 1860 the same right and title which he would have possessed thereto if he had acquired the same in the manner mentioned in section three; and he shall be deemed to hold the same subject to all the conditions affecting Taluqdárs which are referred to in the said section, and to be a Taluqdár for all the purposes of this Act. 4. The Governor General in Council desires that you will have ready, by His Excellency's arrival at Lucknow, a list of the Taluqdárs upon whom a permanent proprietary right has now been conferred; and that you will prepare sanads to be issued to these Taluqdárs at that time. The sanads will be given by, and will run in the name of, the Chief Commissioner, acting under the authority of the Governor General. 4. The meaning of this is that, when a regular settlement of the province is made, wherever it is found that Zamíndárs or other persons have held an interest in the soil intermediate between the ryot and the Taluqdár, the amount or proportion payable by the intermediate holder to the Taluqdár, and the net jama finally payable by the Taluqdár to the Government, will be fixed and recorded after careful and detailed survey and inquiry into each case, and will remain unchanged during the currency of the settlement, the Taluqdár being, of course, free to improve his income and the value of his property by the reclamation of waste lands (unless in cases where usage has given the liberty of reclamation to the Zamindar), and by other measures of which he will receive the full benefit at the end of the settlement. Where leases (pattás) are given to the subordinate Zamíndárs, they will be given by the Taluqdár, not by the Government.