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Compendium on Acts and Rules

district returns.

All resolutions on above returns.
All weekly and fortnightly returns. ,
All the blank reports and returns.

All reminders, memoranda, and similar unimportant small letters in classes A and B.
Dak and town dispatch book.

Applications from clerical subordinates; indents for forms and stationery.
Accountant-General's objection statements and explanations thereon.
Correspondence about—

Jurors and Assessors.
Railway accidents except papers of any special importance.

Passports including Pilgrims' Passports.

102. Such letters of transient interest as under rule 6 are placed in the
Miscellaneous Collection are ordinarily to be included in class "C".

103. Assessment lists counterparts of chalans, records of abjection cases, Treasury

officer's daily advice lists of income-tax collections and other miscellaneous papers
should be considered as falling under class 0.

104. The records of the Excise and Salt Department will be treated in the
Excise and
same way as those of other departments according to the rules in this
Salt
Manual, and will be preserved or destroyed according to the classification. Department
records.

J.—Procedure for destruction of B and C papers.

Annual
105. There will be a destruction of English correspondence every year destruction
of papers
in the month of August; but if any record-room is generally so dark in this procedure.

month as to impede the work materially, the Collector may select another
month. As regards "0" papers they must in accordance with rule 90,
be destroyed at the expiry of two years excluding the year

of disposal and the duty of destroying them falls entirely
on the department to which, they belong, and not on the record-keeper.

If he is satisfied that the department has carried out the rules and
classified all the papers properly in the beginning, the officer in charge of the

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