These words, brackets and figure were substituted for the words — (TAMIL NADU) ACT No. V OF 19342

8 These words, brackets and figure were substituted for the words " if iii g "total average area" by section 2 (i) of the Periyar Irrigation Tanks (ti) (Adt) At1942 (MdAt XVI f 1942) gy () yg (preservation) (Amendment) Act, 1942 (Madras Act XVI of 1942), re- ld lbl2 fd hFlShdlh (p) () () erlacted permanenrly by sectlon 2 of, and the Flrst Schedule to the TilNdRtfdRli(N1) A1948 (Til &d py y , TamilNadu ReenactfngandRo~ealing(No. 1) Act, 1948 (Tamil &du At W f 1948) Aot W of 1948). such water '[and (ii) the total average area of ryotwari wet lands, if any, held under,and of ryotwari wet and dry lands, if any, irrigated with permission from, such k dihhflifid y yg tank during the three faslis aforesaid J; (b) Each landholder concerned shall bear if hid l hlf f () such proportion of the said total cost as one half of the average area of the lands in his estate on which during the said three faslis the atstate Government7 have levied water-cess for the use of water so issuing at the rate prescribed for the irrigation with Periyar water of wet lands in whole inam and zamindari villages, bears to 3[the aggregate area] as determined under clause (a) : (c) Thc "Stato Goverluncnt] shall bcar tl~c bnlancc of thc said total cost. Ilkatratio~~s. (I) A tank is wholly siluatcd in thc c5talc of a lanctlic~ldcr. Thcrc is no law, local custo~n or contracl excluding ~hc liability of the landholder. The averagc itrca on which water-cess was levied during the three

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