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Compendium on Acts and Rules

or uncertified, are required by Article 1 (a), Schedule II of the Court-fees Act, VII of
*No. 361,
dated 18th 1870, as modified by the Bengal Court fee Act of 1922 to bear a two-anna stamp. By
April 1883. Government notification* it has been decided that this shall be in all cases an adhesive

stamp.

NOTE.—(1) Under Government of India Notification No. 1180Exc, dated 24th February
1905, the fee chargeable on applications for copies of the documents detailed in clauses

(4) and (15) of Government of India Notification No. 4650, dated 10th September 1889

(see pages 70—72 Bengal Stamp Manual, 1911), has been remitted.

Searching fee. 279. The ordinary searching fee shall be uniformly four annas for all cases, leviable in

adhesive court-fee stamps. This stamp is to be affixed to the application in addition to
the stamp required under rule 278 before being presented to the proper officer. One

searching fee only shall be charged for any number of copies taken from the same

record and included in the same application.

Applications to
be numbered. 280. All applications for information and copies received from the applicants shall be
Method and numbered consecutively according to the number given to them in Registers 15 and 16,
period of pre-
servation. Appendix A, and filed in the office arranged in monthly bundles in order of their numbers.

No fly-leaf is required. At the close of each quarter they will be examined by the record-
keeper who will report any irregularity or unpunctuality discovered. The Deputy Collector

in Charge, after satisfying himself as to the working of the office by an examination of the

forms recorded, will then direct the destruction of those more than three months old.
Time for
furnishing
copies and 281. The time to be fixed for supplying the information required shall not, without the
information
slips. special orders of the Deputy Collector, in each case be later than 4 p.m. (or 11 a.m.
when office is held in the morning) of the third «pen day after the presentation of the

application, the day of presentation being excluded. Similarly, the time for furnishing the

copies required shall not be later than 4 p.m.; (or 11 a.m. when the office is held in the
morning) of the third open day after the completion of the application by the supply of the

necessary folios, stamps, etc.

Distribution of
copies and 282. All copies and information slips should be distributed to the public in the presence
information
slips to the of the Deputy Collector in charge of the record-room. This should ordinarily be done at
parties. an hour of the day after 3 p.m. or 10 a.m. (in the case of morning sittings).

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