Section No :  
Legislative Enactments
SERVICE TENURES
Marginal Notes
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Service Tenures Ordinance,
2. Interpretation.
3. Power to appoint commissioners to carry this Ordinance into effect. Clerks and other ministerial officers. Any one commissioner competent to act.
4. Oath.
5. Commissioner not to be purchaser of land.
6. Proceedings of commissioners to be with open doors.
7. Commissioners to call upon headmen and temple and nindagama proprietors for lists of panguwas held by them.
8. Notice by commissioners that they will inquire into claims, and calling upon all parties interested to appear. Personal notice.
9. Commissioners to inquire into claims.
10. Registries of claims.
11. Inspection and certified copies.
12. Joinder of all the proprietors and holders not necessary.
13. Commissioners may limit time and area within which service is to be rendered.
14. Application to commute to be made to commissioners pending commission, or to the Government Agent at close of commission.
15. The commissioners or Government Agent to ascertain summarily whether all nilakarayas have joined, and the value of the services. Order to commute and for the sum named shall be final. Commuted dues to be thenceforth deemed head rent.
16. Entry of commutation in registries. Inspection, entries, and certified copies of registries.
17. Provision for the payment of tithe to Government, where such tithe is due for any pangu commuted.
18. Commissioners, and Government Agent to be guided by equity, and not bound by the strict rules of law ; and may examine the parties on oath.
19. Commissioners, &c, to have powers to summon witnesses. Penalty for not obeying the summons.
20. Evidence to be reduced to writing, and signed. Persons swearing falsely to be deemed guilty of giving false evidence.
21. Notices how published.
22. Adjournments.
23. Aggrieved persons may apply to the Governor-General for relief.
24. Arrears of personal services prescribed in a year. Arrears of commuted dues in two years. If no services rendered or commutation paid for ten years, right to claim services or dues lost for ever.
25. Remedy of proprietor against tenant neglecting to render services, or to pay commutation