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 transfer in order that the due proportion of the public revenue may be fixed thereon. The assessment to be settled on the separate parts of your lands shall always bear the same proportion to the actual produce of the separated portion as the total permanent assessment on your Zemindari bears to the actual proportion of the whole Zemindari so if the accounts to be furnished by you should be correct, no partial assessment can happen nor any one of the fixed Zumma be ever made under whatever changes or improvements your interests or your pleasure may lead you to introduce into your Zemindari.

10. Although you will have free right and liberty to transfer by sale, gift or otherwise any part of your Zemindari, not repugnant to the regulations of Government, yet, it shall not be competent for you to form any part of your territory into a separate estate paying its Zumma directly to Government, unless the public assessment on such separate estate