REPRESENTATION..........MANGS ETC. 319
render service to Government. The terms on which this commutation took place were as follows : (1) Payment in perpetuity to the representative Watandars, their heirs lineal, collateral, or adopted so long as any male heir to Watan lineal, collateral or adopted shall be in existence, of cash allowance equal to one-third of the Akarni (remuneration for collecting land revenue) and the Potgi paid for the year 1913-14.
(2) Continuance to the present holders and their heirs, lineal or adopted, so long as any male heir, lineal, collateral or adopted shall be in existence of all Watan lands subject to the payment of existing Judi and when this amount is less than full assessment, an additional amount not exceeding one sixteenth of the full assessment subject to the condition that the additional levy together with the existing Judi shall not exceed the amount of full assessment on the land for the time being.
(3) The land will remain liable to the provision of sections
10, 11, 11A and 12 of the hereditary Village Offices Act, but may be excluded from the operation of the above sections by the Collector.
(4) The continuance of the cash allowance as also the Watan lands is made subject to the continuance of the holders as faithful subjects of the British Government.
(5) A fractional part of a rupee is to be compulsorily purchased at twenty times its value and when the fractional part is annas 14 or more the recipient may purchase at twenty times the difference to make the rupee.
- Of all the Watandars, the Kulkarni has been given the benefit of the most favoured nation clause. He is relieved from the obligation to serve. He does not serve, yet he retains his land which is subject only to Judi and is allowed to receive in perpetuity l/3rd of the Akarni and Potgi payable to him by Government in
1913-14. Besides, although the right of the Kulkarni to serve hereditary was liquidated by Government under