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Compendium on Acts and Rules

After the budget estimate is finally passed by Government, the Revenue Department will

distribute the grant to Commissioners of Divisions and to District Officers according to

their requirements as far as possible.

Powers of
233. From the district grant which has been allotted to him, the Collector is empowered Collector.

to incur necessary expenditure on bills supported by the requisite vouchers and also to

create the temporary establishment required in his record-room, subject to" the following

conditions :—

(a) that the annual district grant which is allotted to him to meet record-room charges is

not exceeded; and

(b) that the pay of no individual appointment shall exceed Rs. 35 per mensem.

234. The budget estimates for record-room establishment should be prepared, in the Procedure for
the
form prescribed by rule 299 of the Bengal Financial Rules and explanations should be
preparation of
furnished separately as required by rule 300 (c) (ii) of the Bengal Financial Rules. The budget
estimates.
amounts required for establishment and contingencies should be shown separately in

the estimates.

235. Government will reserve a small fund to meet unforeseen exigencies. In case any

such should arise in the course of the year, Commissioners may submit supplementary Supplementary
applications.
applications, which will be complied with, if possible.

236. District Officers should submit with their yearly estimates the figures representing
Annual
the actual expenditure incurred from the allotment of the previous year, and those estimates of
representing the sanctioned grant of the year then current In connection with this rule the District Officers,
and conditions
attention of all officers if drawn to rule 145 of the Board's Miscellaneous Rules, 1934 of temporary
establishments.
That order requires the reservation of one-quarter of the salaries of temporary
establishments, other than menial establishments, until the termination of the periods for

which they have been sanctioned, such reserved sums to be expended in each case in
which the work may not have been completed within the period specified, in the
employment of the same or other hands to finish it. It will, therefore, be necessary that;

in applications for sanction to the entertainment of establishments payable from the
record grant, the periods during which it is proposed to employ them, should be

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