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Compendium on Acts and Rules

stamps used for denoting court-fees need not be cancelled or punched, otherwise than

as required by section 30 of the Court-fees Act. The portions punched out must be
destroyed by burning.

159. It should be established as an invariable rule that when a record shows a certain Procedure
when a
Government due as recover able in connection with it, the record-keeper should refuse record shows
sum due to
to take it over without the express orders of the Collector, unless it contains the Treasury
Government.
receipt for this due.

Check by
160. It is the duty of the record-keeper to check the classification made by the
record-
departmental officers, and not to place any case on the rack-until he has satisfied keeper.

himself that the papers have been correctly distributed into the three files. He is also to

compare the entries referred to in rule 169 below with the records themselves and sign

the certificate at the foot of the combined title page and fly-leaf.

Distribution
161. Files A and B are to be deposited in the place on the racks to which the case
in record-
properly belongs. File, C and D are to be placed on a separate set of racks, set apart room.

solely for C papers and private documents. File D will disappear at the same time as the

C files, after the procedure described in rule 228 B (3) in Chapter V has been carried

out.

162. The arrangement of the papers on the rack assigned to C files is not to be by Arrangement
of C papers.
parganas and estates, but according to dates kept in monthly bundles.

Shelf for cases decided in January 1910, sub divided Shelf for cases decided in February 1910, sub
into as many bundles as there are classes of cases. divided into as many bundles as there are classes of
cases.

Sales Rent suits. Mutations. Division etc. etc. Sales. Rent suits Mutations. Divisions. etc. etc.

163. For instance, if one shelf be allotted to the cases decided in January, one bundle Explanation.

on that shelf will contain the C papers in all cases of sale; another the C papers in all
rent suits, and so on, there being as many bundles as there are denominations of cases.
Again, within the bundles, the files of the cases will be arranged according to the date of

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