Not withstanding anything contained in any existing jagir law or any other law, all jagir lands shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be liable to payment of land revenue to the Government; and as from such commencement, the liability of (a) all Jagirdars to pay tribute to the Government under any existing Jagir Law shall cease, and The expression 'tribute ', the liability to pay which was thus extinguished from and after the commencement of the Act, was defined in section 2(r) of that Act in the following terms: 'Tribute ' in relation to a jagir, includes rekh, rakam, chatund, chakri or other charge of a similar nature; and" In the absence of the above provision the petitioner would have been under an obligation to pay to the Government 'hukamnama ' under section 190 of the Marwar Land Revenue Act, 1949 (referred to hereafter as the Marwar Act) which codified the earlier law irk that State.