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85 against the interests of their heirs until the unfortunate Privy Council's decision declared it in the Pittapore Suit. (O. S. No. 6 of 1891.)

If instead of a few the majority of the Zamindars of past generations had had the foolish idea of those I mentioned above, or if they had known they had a right to alienate portions of their estates, is it not right to think many of the estates would have been lost long ago? Now our grateful thanks are due to our present able and worthy Governor, Lord Ampthill, for the Madras Impartible Estates Act which has been passed last year (Act II of 1904). By this enactment, two important objects have been secured:—

(I). More than one hundred estates are saved from partition or even from the fear of very costly and ruinous litigation against partition. (II). The proprietor of an impartible estate shall not alienate or bind