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Compendium on Acts and Rules

what papers are in the office and where they are to be found. Uniformity, though

desirable, is not to be enforced at an expense of time and trouble which, may be saved
by adapting the arrangement to the circumstances of any district.

Chaukidari
chakran lands 137. The records appertaining to chaukidari chakran lands and land acquisition cases
and land should be kept in the district in the jurisdiction of which the lands concerned are
acquisition
records how to geographically situated.
be arranged.

Estate papers 138. The records of land situate as described in the preceding rule (i.e., not belonging to
required for
English estates borne upon the district revenue-roll) should be arranged, by estates, in a
correspondence. different series from that of the estates borne upon the revenue-roll.

139. Whenever important papers belonging to an estate bundle are required for
reference in connection with a case and are placed in a file of correspondence, a slip

giving the reference to the File No. and Collection No. and year should be put with the

estate paper in the bundle in the record-room. The papers themselves, as soon as they
are no longer required for reference, shall be restored to the bundle. When they are thus

transferred from a file, a removal slip note that they have been put back in the estate

bundle, should correspondingly be made in the file.

English 140. Many important matters in connection with a revenue case are decided by
correspondenc
e relating to a correspondence, and in the 'absence of rules for the disposal (ultimate filing) of this
case to be filed correspondence the papers are, it is believed, kept sometimes with the case records
with the
records (nathis) and sometimes in the office file of the English correspondence without any
(nathis) of that cross-references. It is to be distinctly understood that the originals of all important orders
case.
should always be kept with the case records (nathis) to which they relate copies being

kept in the office file of English correspondence with clear references to the, case
records (nathis) with which the originals are kept. Reference notes should also be

made in the case records (nathis) to the files of English correspondence where copies
are kept.
A miscellaneous case should be started in the Munshi-khana whenever a question of

transfer of an estate from one district to another arises and the correspondence relating
to it should be kept with the miscellaneous case record. The record when disposed of

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