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Compendium on Acts and Rules

I.—Rules for applications.

273. Applications may be received from the public for-
Purposes for
(i) information respecting the contents of papers and documents in the district which
applications
office, whether such information be or be not required for the purpose of correctly
are to be
describing such documents in application for copies of the same; received.

(ii) unstamped copies of papers and documents of which copies may by law be

given on unstamped paper;

(iii) stamped copies of papers and documents.

In granting such applications regard shall be had to rules 332, 333 and 334

below and any other rules or provisions of law in force regarding the supply of

information or copies.

273A. Defective applications and applications in respect of which the information or the

copy asked for cannot for any reason be given shall be rejected.

NOTE 1.—It should be impressed upon the staff that applications are not to be rejected

on frivolous grounds. If there are means for finding the right record or register, it' must

be traced even though the description given by the applicant may in some respects be

inaccurate or defective.

273B. Information requiring anything but short answers shall not be given. If any extract

from the record or the substance or any order, etc., or document is desired the proper

course is to apply for a copy.

When separate
274. Only one application need be made for copies of papers or for information required
applications to
in connection with a single cause or matter, e.g., if copies are required of four separate be made.

papers in one record, only one application is necessary When copies of, or information'

relating to, papers connected with different matters or causes are wanted, as many

applications are necessary, as the matters or causes to which they relate.

When a person applies for copies of Settlement records or maps of more than one

village, he will be required to make only one application. The application for copies of

maps should, however, be separate from that for copies of records. But this concession
will not apply in the case of manuscript records of non-Khas Mahal arrears of the district

of Bakarganj.

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