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Compendium on Acts and Rules

75. Are all the valuable documents referred to in rule 153
kept in almirahs under double lock and key? (2) Who
keeps the keys? Is a separate list for each almirah kept of
these records in such a way that any document
required can be found at once? (3) Does the Deputy
Collector in charge periodically inspect and compare the
contents with the list? (Rules 153 and 154.)
76. Are such documents in good condition? (Rule 153.)
76A. Are they kept in a wire rack or in a separate
almirah? If an almirah, is it tin-lined, and are the front and
sides fitted up with wire-work to admit of the free
circulation of air? (Rule 153.)
77. Does the gazetted officer examine regularly
Register 41B and see that the records received are duly
entered in the register by the record-keeper, and
promptly dealt with? (Rules 145 and 146.)
78. Up to what date have the records been received from
each subdivision? (Rule 185.)
79. Is the list kept up to date of all the courts and
departments from which the record-keeper has to receive
records? Is it signed and; dated by the Deputy Collector
in charge and hung up in the record-room? (Rule 146.)
80. Does the record-keeper bring to the notice of
the Deputy Collector in charge any delav in depositing
records in the record-rooms in due dates? (Rule 147.)
80A. And does he see that the records which have not
been deposited during the month in which they are due
are duly accounted for in the next month? (Rule 147.)
80B. Has any undue delay been brought to the notice of
the Collector? If not, why not? (Rule 146.)
*8l. Are the A, B files kept together, and the C files on a
separate rack? (Rule 161.)
*82. Are the C papers on their separate racks arranged
according to dates of decision and classes of cases?
(Rule 162.)
83. Are C papers more than two years old destroyed in
January of each year? (Rule174.)
84. Does the record-keeper examine each working
day the contents of one bundle of vernacular
records to see whether the contents agree with the list in
the bundle and whether B and C papers have been
duly destroyed? (Rule 142.)
*84A. Is this list as well as the corresponding entry in the
shelf Register 41 of records signed and dated by him?
(Rule 142.)
(23)-—Record-room—General.
N.B.—In regard to questions thus marked (*) the reply
should be given by testing a few instances.

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