Section 7:
Pensions for lands held under grants in perpetuity.
Nothing in sections 4 and 6 applies to--
(1) any inam of the class referred to in section 1 of Madras Act No. IV of 18621
;
(2) pensions heretofore granted by Government in the territories respectively subject to the
Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces, either wholly or in part as an
indemnity for loss sustained by the resumption by a Native Government of lands held under sanads
purporting to confer a right in perpetuity. Such pensions shall not be liable to resumption on the death
of the recipient, but every such pension shall be capable of alienation and descent, and may be sued
for and recovered in the same manner as any other property.
Notes:
1. I.e., "inams of the classes described in el. 1, s. 2, [Mad]. Regulation 4 of 1831, which have been, or shall be, enfranchised by
the Inam Commissioner and converted into freeholds in perpetuity, or into absolute freeholds in perpetuity". The classes so
described are hereditary or personal grants of money or of land-revenue, however, denominated, conferred by the authority of
the Governor in Council or which, having been made by any Native Govt. have been confirmed or continued by the British
Govt.--Act 31 of 1836] in consideration of services rendered to the State or in lieu of resumed offices or privileges, or of
zamindaris or paleiyams forfeited or held under attachment or management by the officers of Govt., or as a yaumia or
charitable allowance, or as a pension".