No under-tenant or ryot, who holds or cultivates land without a written engagement on under a written engagement not specifying the period of such engagement, or whose engagement has expired, or has become cancelled in consequence of the sale for arrears of rent of revenue of the tenure or estate in which the land held or cultivated by him is situated, and has not been renewed, shall be liable to pay any higher rent for such land than the rent payable for the previous year, unless a written notice shall have been served on such under-tenant or ryot, in or before the month of Chief, specifying the rent to which he will be subject for the ensuring year, and the ground on which an enhancement of rent is claimed, Such notice shall be served by order of the Collector on the application (which may be on plain paper) of the person to whom the rent is payable, and shall, if practicable, be served personally on the under-tenant or ryot. If for any reason the notice not be served personally upon the under-tenant or ryot, it shall be affixed at his usual place of residence, or if he have no such place of residence in the District in which the land is situate, the mode of service of such notice shall be by affixing it at the Mal cutcherry of such land or other conspicuous place thereon, or at the village Chowree or Chowpal or at some other conspicuous place in the village in which the land is situate.