132Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers? powers.

The Deputy Commissioner shall, when a settlement is not in progress, exercise the powers conferred by this Act on Settlement-officers for the following purposes:—
(a) causing boundary-marks to be erected· or repaired, and recovering the. cost of such erection and repair;
(b) assessing land-revenue on lands which are liable to assessment, but have not been assessed;
(c) declaring any. local area to be a mahal;
(d) settling lands from which the proprietors were excluded at settlement and to which they have been or are about to be re-admitted;
(e) settling mahals in respect of which an application has been made under the third proviso to section fifty-six;
(f) dealing with claims to hold land wholly or partially free from revenue as against the malguzars;
(g) assessing lands gained by alluvion;
(h) ascertaining and recording village-cesses which are levied when this Act comes into force, but have not been recorded at the settlement