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has been a reference to the Civil Court under section b(l) of the Act, such reference has

been finally adjudicated.

166C. The impounded documents, forwarded to the Collector under section 38(2) of the

Indian Stamp Act, II of 1899, if they are documents excluded from the provisions of
section 40 of that Act, should be preserved for 12 years from the date of their receipt by

the Collector.

166D. Notices under sections 12, 13, 15 and 18(l) (a) of the Bengal Tenancy Act will be

stamped as “B” class ' papers but cases in which full payment of landlord fee has been

made may be destroyed in the record room after one year. Other cases will not be kept

for more than 6 years.

Notices under section 26C of the Bengal Tenancy Act will be stamped as C papers and

may be destroyed after one year.

166E. Notwithstanding the classification in rule 173A, the Collector may after

examination pass orders for the destruction of any "A" class paper before the expiry of

81 years' if he considers its retention no longer necessary. For the purpose of such

examination the record-keeper shall put up to the Collector all case records immediately

after the close of the year shown against each in column 15 of Register 41A.

166F. Case records of education cess will be stamped as "B" class papers but will not

be preserved for more than six years excluding the year of disposal.

167. Every paper should, except when immediate classification is impossible, be marked A, B, G and D
papers to be
prominently by the use of the A, B, C or D stamp as soon as it is received in the marked with
stamps.
department, and it should be entered in the combined title page and fly-leaf at once.

168. The clerical officer in charge of the department must himself make the above
classification, and himself mark the A, B, C and D papers. He will see that the
combined title page and fly-leaf has been duly prepared as prescribed in rules 126

and 127.
169. Before a record is transferred to the record-room, the departmental office must

satisfy itself that the class of each paper has been duly entered in the combined title

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