When any local area is under settlement, the Chief Commissioner may invest any subordinate Settlement-officer with the powers of any of the first five grades of Courts described in section four of the Central Provinces Courts, Act, 1865, and the Chief Settlement-officer with the powers of a Court of a Deputy Commissioner described in the same Act, sections twelve, nineteen and twenty, for the trial, in the first instance, of any of the following classes of suits instituted within such area (namely):--
(a) suits for arrears of rent due on account of any fight of pasturage, forest-rights, fisheries or the like;
(b) suits by lambardars for arrears of revenue payable through them by the proprietors whom they represent;
(c) suits by proprietors for their share of the profits of an estate or any part thereof after payment of the revenue and village-expenses, or for a settlement of accounts;
(d) suits by muafidars or assignees of revenue for arrears of revenue owing to them as such muafidars or assignees;
(e) suits by superior proprietors for arrears of revenue due to them as such superior proprietors;
(f) suits by proprietors and others in receipt of the rent of land against any agents employed by them in the management of land or collection of rents, or against the sureties of such agents, for money received or accounts kept by such agents in the course of such employment, or for papers in their possession;
(g) suits regarding any matter which a Settlement-officer is required to decide or to enter in the record-of-rights, and of which Civil Courts can take cognizance;
(h) suits relating to land, or the rent, profits or occupation of land.