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Compendium on Acts and Rules

APPENDIX D.
CLASSIFIED LIST OF VERNACULAR RECORDS.
Class A.
(To be stamped with the letter A.)
To be kept permanently.
I.—The cases or proceedings enumerated below:-
(1) All petitions, excepting those for sales under Regulation VIII of 1819, which are truck off on

payment of the zamindar's demand, and also excepting those which have no bearing on the
decision of the case, such as petitions for adjournment, etc., which should be placed under Class
C.

(2) Plaints and pleadings.
(3) All lists of exhibits; and all receipts for returned exhibits.
(4) All measurement, allotment, or assessment papers.

(5) All maps.
(6) The autographic abstract of the evidence.

(7) The final judgment, and decision or order.
(8) The combined title-page and fly-leaf in which A papers are referred to.
(9) The papers in the following cases and proceedings, or in appeals connected therewith,

excepting those which are struck off in default, which are to be preserved for two years only: —
(a) Settlements.

(b) All proceedings (excepting Notices of deposit) under the Rent Laws except
Act X of 1859 and Bengal Tenancy Act, VIII of 1885, amended up to date.
(c) Applications for Separate Accounts and Common Registry, excepting those

applications which are rejected, which last are to be preserved for two years—to make
Deposits—or for Special Registry under the Sale Laws. Separate accounts cases, when
batwara has taken place or the parent estate has been sold, need no longer be retained.

(d) Government suits.
(e) Resumption.
(f) Sales of all kinds with the exception of sales for arrears of revenue, i.e., sales under

Act XI of 1859.
(g) Claims to compensation for lands taken up for public purpose.

(h) The security bonds should be retained permanently, or until it is certain that there is
no necessity for keeping them any longer.
(10) Orders regarding opening of separate accounts in respect of Patni Taluks under

section 6A of the Bengal Patni Taluks Regulation (Regulation VIII of 1819).

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