Section 17:
Rents stopped after notice for sale.
And it is hereby enacted, that whenever an estate shall
have been sold as aforesaid, the Collector, or other Officer as aforesaid shall affix proclamation in the
language of the District in his Cutcherry; and as soon thereafter as may be in the Cutcherries of the
Moonsiffs and of the Darogahs of Police, within whose jurisdiction or jurisdictions any part of such estate
may be situated; and also at the Cutcherry of the Malgoozar of such estate; or on some conspicuous place
on such estate. Forbidding the ryots and under-tenants of such estate to pay rent falling due subsequent to
the date therein specified and up to the date of the subsequent notice hereinafter prescribed by Section XXI.
of this Act, on pain of not being entitled to credit in their accounts with the purchaser for any sums paid
within the period aforesaid.