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Compendium on Acts and Rules

121. Registers must all be kept in English.

M.—Classification, preservation and destruction of Treasury records.
122. The Treasury records mentioned in Appendix F may be destroyed after the period
noted against them. Record which are not to be destroyed as well as records which are

to be destroyed after five years or more should be consigned to the record-room
annually, and when they are so consigned the record-keeper will enter them in Register

57 or in Register 57A according as they are to be preserved permanently or not. The
rest should be retained in the Treasury Office and destroyed on the expiration of the
periods mentioned against, them.

CHAPTER II.
VERNACULAR RECORDS.

A.—Rules relating to current vernacular records.
NOTE.—Under the term "Vernacular" are included all case records, whether in English or

the vernacular.
123. The business of a Collector's office is divided into departments, a clerical officer
Departments
being- placed at the head of each department and held responsible for all the papers of heads.

every case in his department until it passes into the hands of the record-keeper under

rule 125. An officer may be in charge of more than one department.

123. The business of a Collector's office is divided into departments, a clerical officer
Superintendent
being- placed at the head of each department and held responsible for all the papers of to distribute
and supervise
every case in his department until it passes into the hands of the record-keeper under

rule 125. An officer may be in charge of more than one department.

124. The Superintendent is responsible that the papers daily received are daily made Procedure for
delivery of
over to the officers in charge of the different departments, and duly filed and entered on
vernacular
the combined title-page and fly-leaves and in the books, and 'disposed of with due care records to
record-keeper.
and attention to arrangement. It is the duty of the Superintendent also to see that cases
required for the Collector's proceedings are duly brought for ward by the officers in

charge of the departments at the times appointed, and that each case or paper is
returned daily to the proper department before the office breaks up.

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