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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Kabuliats, properly called leases, executed for a term of years in respect of Town Khas

Mahals, dealt with in Chapter VI of the Crown Estates Manual, 1932.—Only the last and
current leases are to be preserved.
All Kabuliats in Wards Estates.—Are to be preserved permanently.

(d) Powers of attorney executed before 1st of January 1865.—Are to be preserved
permanently.

Those executed and registered since 1st of January 1865.—Are to be preserved for as
long a period as the records with which kept.
The file of copies of Power of attorney maintained in the Collectorate under rule 212,

page 38 of the Bengal Practice and Procedure Manual, 1940.—Are to be preserved
permanently. *
(c) Vakalatnamas and Muktarnamas.—Are to be preserved for as long a period as the

records with which kept.
VI.—Of Survey Records* lodged in Collector's offices, the following should be carefully
preserved: —

(1) Professional survey volumes.
(2) Maps of all kinds prepared by Superintendents of Survey or Revenue Surveyors, •

with the measurement papers and field-books appertaining thereto.
(3) Mauzawar and Mahalwar registers, English and vernacular.
2. Records connected with boundary disputes and excess or untraceable mahals

should be treated similarly to the records of Act X suits, etc., etc., according to the rules
laid down above.
3. Records of all other cases of a miscellaneous nature should be treated as papers

under class C.
VII.—Records of cases under the Bengal Tenancy Act, VIII of 1885: —
1. Section 12—Notices of transfer As "B" papers.
of tenures.
2. Sections 13 and 15—Notices As "B" papers.
of transfer of tenures.
3. Section 18 (1)(a).—Notices of Six years (vide Rule 166D).
transfer of tenures.
4. Sections 26C, 26E and 26H.— Six years (vide Rule 166D).
Notices of transfer of occupancy
holding, etc.
5. Section 40.—Rent commutation Should be kept for 12 years (i.e.,
classed as "B") or until next settlement
under Chapter X of the Bengal Tenancy
Act whichever period be longer.

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