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Compendium on Acts and Rules

N.B.—In regard to questions thus marked (*) the reply
should be given by testing a few instances.
63. On what principle are the records of each
department arranged? Is that principle invariably observed?
(Rule 131.)
64. Are the records of estates not borne on the
revenue-roll of the district arranged by estates in a different
series from that of estates borne upon the district-roll?
(Rule 134.)
65. With the exceptions permitted by rule 135, are the
records of lands belonging to the district, but borne on the
revenue-roll of other districts, kept here? (Rules 134 and
136.)
66. Are the records of lands belonging to other
districts, but borne on the revenue-roll of this district, kept
here, and not in that of the district where the lands, or some
of them, lie? (Rule 134.)
*67. Are the records of patni sales which have taken
place in the district kept in the district record-room with
the same estate? (Rule 135.)
*68. Are the records of all cases finally disposed
of in the district under the Public Demands Recovery
Act, or under the rent law in force (in districts where rent-
suits are tried by revenue officers), and records of cases
under sections 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 and 167 of the Bengal
Tenancy Act kept in the district record-room? (Rule 135.)
*69. Are the papers of one estate kept
separate" from those of another estate? (Rule 131.)
70. Are the papers relating to revenue-free estates kept in
a separate place from those for revenue-paying estates and
arranged in shelves according to the serial number in
Register B? (Rule 131.)
*7l. Are the papers relating to revenue-paying
estates arranged according to the serial order of their tauzi
number? (Rule 131.)
*72. Are the tauzi numbers or Register B numbers of the
revenue-free records clearly and durably written or painted
prominently on each shelf or compartment of shelf on
which thev are kept? (Rule 132.)
73. Are records appertaining to land acquisition cases and
chaukidari chakran lands kept in the district in the
jurisdiction of which the lands are geographically situated?
(Rule 137.)
*74. Does each bundle contain a list of the enclosed
cases with the date of the year in which they
occurred? (Rule 141.)
74A. Is the name and date of the case inserted in the list
when a fresh case is added to the bundles (Rule 141.)

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