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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Class A.
Papers to be stamped with the letter A and to be retained for ever.

Correspondence of importance regarding—
Settlement. Malikana.
Surveys. Civil suits.
Waste lands. Service tenures.
Embankments. Sales.
Irrigation. Enhancement of rent.
Drainage. Court of Wards and other private estates
Government estates. managed by the Collector.
Escheats. Endowments. Land improvement.
Stamp s---Resumptions. Boundaries. Land Acquisition.
Partitions. 1 Road and Public Works
Redemptions. Transfers. Cess.
Remissions and abatements. Statistics.
Customs. Forest conservancy.
Opium. Floods.
Salt. Famines.
Titles conferred by the Government of
Excise. India.
Assessed taxes. Pensions.
Jurisdiction. Appeals, where the question is one of
Land registration of Common and permanent interest.
special registration.

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All annual reports "and returns.
All resolutions on those returns.
All circulars from Government, the Board, Legal Remembrancer, Accountant-General, etc.
All letters communicating rules and general instructions.
Correspondence on other subjects of importance to be included at Collector's discretion.
All aid correspondence already bound up in books.
All printed reports and books including regulations and laws.
All maps and survey records.
All lists of papers destroyed.
Statistical tables and memoranda for the preparation of Annual Reports.
The following papers appertaining to the Excise and Salt Department: —
History sheet.
The following- records appertaining, to the Cess Department:—
Annual budgets and establishment returns.
Quarterly and kistwar returns.
District and Sub divisional Officers' confidential notebook (prescribed in Government
order No. 42Misc, dated 25th November 1908).
Papers regarding landed property held by gazette officers.
Papers regarding the establishment of a pound or a ferry.
Papers regarding juvenile offenders.
Papers regarding under-trial prisoners.

1. Old Cess returns are to be destroyed when a revaluation has been made.
2. They should be treated as ''C" class papers if they are blank.

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