Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879
It shall be lawful for the Collector in order to secure the payment of the land revenue by enforcement of the lien of [the [State] Government] on the crop— (a) to require that the crop growing on any land liable to the payment of land revenue shall not be reaped until a notice in writing has first been given to himself or to some other officer to be named by him, in this behalf, and such notice has been returned endorsed with an acknowledgement of its receipt; (b) to direct that no such crop shall be removed from the land on which it has been reaped, or from any place in which it may have been deposited, without the written permission of himself or of some other officer as aforesaid; (c) to cause watchmen to be placed over any such crop to prevent the unlawful reaping or removal of the same, and to realize the amount required for the remuneration of the said watchmen, at such rate not exceeding the rate of pay received by the peons on his establishment he may deem fit, as an arrear of land revenue due in respect of the land to which such crop belongs.