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Compendium on Acts and Rules

page and fly leaf, and that all A, B, C and D papers have been marked with the

appropriate stamps. At the bottom of the combined title page and fly-leaf the papers
Classification
to be noted under each class— A, B, C, and I)—will be noted by their serial numbers as shown
on combined
title page and below:—
fly-leaf. A B C D

1 3 4 8

2 7 .. 8(a)
5 .. 9 ..

6 .. 10 ..

Knowledge of 170. Before any officer is entrusted with the marking of A, B, C and D papers with the
officer to be
tested. appropriate stamps the Collector must ascertain that he has made himself thoroughly
acquainted with the rules for the classification of records.

171. "C" class records shall have no combined title page and fly-leaves, and shall be

sent to the record-room tied up in monthly bundles department by department. On the
top of each bundle there will be a slip mentioning the Department, the month and the

total number of single documents .in it.
The records of notice cases relating to the payment of landlords fees under the Bengal

Tenancy Act, although B class records will be dealt with in accordance with the
instructions in paragraph 1 except that on the top of each monthly bundle there should

be a list in duplicate of records in the bundle showing the (1) case number and year of
each record (2) number of sheets it contains, (3) total value of court-fees it contains, (4)

nature of private document, if any, and (5) date of disposal; and that only the total
number of cases in each bundle, and, when there is more than one bundle in a month,

also the number of the last record in each bundle, should be entered in column 2 of
Register 41A.

Examination 172. Although, according to the lists, papers in Class "A" are to be kept "for ever", an:
of
unimportant expression used because it is unsafe to fix any period within which it is certain they can
ant "A" class
papers for be destroyed without any danger, it is necessary, in order to prevent the excessive
destruction. accumulation of papers, to make arrangements from time to time for relieving the

record-rooms of old papers which have ceased to be important or which were originally

wrongly marked "A". In order to weed out unimportant papers the record-keeper should

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