The rules for determining the conditions under which persons possessed of subordinate rights of property in taluqas in the territories subject to the administration of the Chief Commissioner of Oudh shall be entitled to obtain a sub-settlement of lands, villages or sub-divisions thereof, which they held under Taluqdars on or before the thirteenth day of February 1856, and for determining the amounts payable to the Taluqdar by such subordinate proprietors, which rules were made by the said Chief Commissioner, sanctioned by the Governor General of India in Council, and published in the Gazette of India for September 1st, 1866, and which are re-published in the Schedule to this Act, are hereby declared to have the force of law.