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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Stamped receipts given by liquor contractors for 'cost price of liquor paid to

them.
NOTE.—The following papers appertaining to the Excise and Salt Department are to be
pre served for 6 years:-

25. Grant of exclusive privilege of manufacture and of supply by wholesale of
country spirit.

26. License for the sale by wholesale of country spirit.
V.-Records contested of mutation cases relating to names of tenants in Government
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estates should be kept together arranged chronologically in yearly bundles, and "should,
subject to the destruction of C papers, be preserved for 12 years from the date of
decision.
VI.—Records of cases under the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act, 1920, shall be preserved for

12 years provided that all money in deposit has been disposed of and when there has
been a reference to the Civil Court under Section V (1) of the Act, such reference has
been finally adjudicated.

VII.—The impounded documents, forwarded to the Collector under section 38 {0y of the
Indian Stamp Act, II of 1899, if they are documents excluded from the provisions of

section, 40 of that Act, should be preserved for 12 years from the date of their receipt by
the Collector.
"VIII. — 'Kharcha hisqbs' of the estates, property of individuals under khas tashil."

Class C.
(To be stamped with the letter C.)
To be kept in the record-room for two full years and then destroyed.

(No document described in rules 227 to 229 shall be placed in this class.)
All papers of every description not enumerated above—whether returns, cases or parts
of cases, or miscellaneous—are to be kept for two full years in the record-room and then

destroyed, the papers relating to an enquiry under section IDA of the Court' Fees Act,
1870, in cases where the enquiry is not finished until after the issue of probates or letters

of administration, being destroyed after 25 years:-
I.—Combined title-page and fly-leaves in which C papers only are referred to.
II.—Applications for exemption of estates from the sale for arrears of revenue whether

refused or granted.
III.—Papers in the following cases:-

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