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Compendium on Acts and Rules

129. Has any report been submitted by the "record-keeper
to the Deputy Collector about any missing paper?
What action is taken on such report? (Rule 81.)
130. Are the monthly files considered as one record?
(Rule 171.)
131. Are the iron racks labeled or painted? (Rules 86 and
132.)
132. Is the floor regularly kept clean? Are coal tar and
naphthalene used for the floor racks and records?
133. Are the wooden racks (if any) wiped with kerosene
oil rags every two months?
134. Does a caretaker sleep near the record-room at
night? Who keeps the key of the record -room?
135. How many buckets are kept and where, inside or
outside the record-room, and are they easily and promptly
accessible in the event of fire breaking out? Are these
sufficient?
136. Are sanads to Revenue Agents and licenses
to Stamp Vendors kept in monthly bundles? (Rule
164.)

Form No. 74.
Questions for the Inspection of Library. Observation by
Inspecting Officers.
[Reference are to the Records Manual, 1943, when no
other Manual is specified.]
OFFICE-LIBRARY.
N.B.—In- regard to questions thus marked
(*) the reply should be given by testing a few instances.
1. In the last three years how often has the
Deputy Collector in charge and the librarian been changed,
and what is the average period of charge in each case
during that time? (Rules 244 and 246.)
1A. In the last three years how often has the head clerical
officer in charge of library been changed? (Rules
244 and 246.)
IB. What are the names of the gazetted officer and of
the librarian in charge, and how long has each been in
charge? (Rules 244 and 246.)
1C.What is the name of the head clerical officer, and how
long has he held the appointment? (Rules 244 and 246.)
ID. Is the record-room Deputy Collector in charge of the
library or any other gazetted officer? (Rules 244
and 246 and Note 2, Preamble.)
IE. When was the library last inspected by the Deputy
Collector in charge, the Collector and the Commissioner?
(Rules 266 and 267.)
IF. Has the clerical officer in charge a guard-file of extracts
from the inspection remarks of Collectors and other superior
officers relating to the library and are such arranged
chronologically and are they paged and indexed? (Rule 267.)

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