V. RAMASWAMI J.:- The land in R.C. No. 209/1 in Tiruppur village, Palladam taluk, Coimbatore District comprised in T.D. No. 174 was a Devadayam minor inam land and it was granted to one Mavalinga Naicker, for performing 'ugranam service' in the temple of Sri. Visweswaraswami and Veeraraghava Perumal at Tirupur. On a reading of the provisions of the Inam Fair Register extract relating to this minor inam, the settlement Tahsildar came to the conclusion that it is personal inam burdened with service of the categories specified in Section 8 (5) of the Tamil Nadu Minor Inam (Abolition and conversion into Ryotwari) Act (Act XXX of 1963), (hereinafter called the Act). This finding that it is a personal inam burdened with service is not in dispute in this case. The grantee alienated the property by way of permanent lease sometime in 1864. Subsequently the grantee sold and released the right of revision thus making the lessee an alienee of the grant itself. Though there was an attempt by the Government to resume the land on the ground of non-performance of service, that ultimately ended in a settlement accepting the alienation as valid. This minor inam was notified under the Act an