'British Enactments in Force in Native States, Volume V: Orders relating to Railways in Native States' [‎102v] (209/246)

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on payment o£ the fees prescribed by Article X of the Table of Fees.
Unclaimed documents presented for registration in the offices of Sub-Registrars,
shall, on the expiry of one month, be sent to the Registrar of the District for
safe custody in his fire-proof safe and shall only be surrendered on payment
of ithe fees prescribed by the Article above mentioned.
4. Every Sub-Registrar shall, at the close of each official year report to
his Registrar the different kinds of records and the periods to which they
belong, which he considers may be destroyed, and the Registrar after examin
ing all the reports of his district, and recording his opinion thereon, shall
add a report of the same description for his own office, and forward the whole
for the orders of the Inspector-General, whom they should reach by the 1st
of May. No records shall be destroyed except by the direction of the
Inspector-General.
5. Inspections allowed under section 57 of Act XVI of 1908, shall be
made in the presence of the Registering Officer, and without writing
materials.
( 5 . If the production of a Register Book or of any document in the custody
of a Registering officer be required by any Court, it shall be forwarded under
charge of a responsible official and application shall be made to the Court for
payment of his expenses.
7 . The languages which shall he deemed to he commonly used. —"With
reference to section 19 of the Act it is declared that the languages held to be
commonly in use in the Registration districts as notified in column 2 of the
Schedule to the notification of the Government of India in the Foreign
Department, 1 No. 244-1. B., dated 25th January 1912, with the exception
of the district consisting of the portion of the Rajputana-Malwa Railway
which passes through the Jodhpur and Sirohi States, are English, Urdu, and
Hindi, but documents presented for registration may be written in any
language commonly in use in a district, in case, however, of the language
being other than Urdu and Hindi, they must be accompanied by a true
translation into Urdu and Hindi, and also by a true copy. Documents written
in English when presented to a European officer or an officer knowing
English, need not be accompanied by an Urdu and Hindi translation.
8 . Territorial Divisions. —The territorial divisions to be recognised under
section 21 are the Railway lands notified as sub-districts in column 2 of the
schedule mentioned in rule 7 above. The names of those divisions shall be
entered in all documents relating to houses’and lands, in addition to the name
of the Railway station and the adjoining boundaries of the property.
9. Fines. —Fines under section 25 shall be levied according to the
following scale when, owing to Urgent necessity or unavoidable accident,
documents are presented for registration after the lapse of the four months
1 Printed Supra p. 180.